Tim Howles
@timhowles.bsky.social
Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
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Tim Howles
@timhowles.bsky.social
· May 9
What should the Left do with the work of Bruno Latour?
logisticsofreligionblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/r...
logisticsofreligionblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/r...
Who can tame Trump? An unlikely candidate is emerging: the Catholic church
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Who can tame Trump? An unlikely candidate is emerging: the Catholic church | Simon Tisdall
Inequality, immigration and civil rights are the battlegrounds on which the church, and some other Christian denominations, are fighting, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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November 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Who can tame Trump? An unlikely candidate is emerging: the Catholic church
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Technology v/s Nature
“John Milbank offers a postliberal reframing of AI”
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“John Milbank offers a postliberal reframing of AI”
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Technology v/is Nature
John Milbank offers a postliberal reframing of AI
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November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Technology v/s Nature
“John Milbank offers a postliberal reframing of AI”
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“John Milbank offers a postliberal reframing of AI”
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"Constituent Power in Early Modern Political Philosophy: From La Boétie to Hobbes"
Filippo Del Lucchese
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Filippo Del Lucchese
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November 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"Constituent Power in Early Modern Political Philosophy: From La Boétie to Hobbes"
Filippo Del Lucchese
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Filippo Del Lucchese
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-constit...
Just ordered:
"The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization"
Mohamed Amer Meziane
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"The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization"
Mohamed Amer Meziane
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Just ordered:
"The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization"
Mohamed Amer Meziane
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
"The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization"
Mohamed Amer Meziane
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
“I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.”
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
“I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.”
“Kant and Environmental Philosophy: The Climate Crisis and the Imperative of Sustainability”
Zachary Vereb
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Zachary Vereb
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November 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
“Kant and Environmental Philosophy: The Climate Crisis and the Imperative of Sustainability”
Zachary Vereb
www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
Zachary Vereb
www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
Here is my latest journal article, an evaluation of the very interesting late novel by William Golding: Darkness Visible.
"Freedom, Responsibility, and Fable in Golding’s Darkness Visible"
Essays in Criticism, 75:3, July 2025: 258–274
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"Freedom, Responsibility, and Fable in Golding’s Darkness Visible"
Essays in Criticism, 75:3, July 2025: 258–274
academic.oup.com/eic/article/...
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Here is my latest journal article, an evaluation of the very interesting late novel by William Golding: Darkness Visible.
"Freedom, Responsibility, and Fable in Golding’s Darkness Visible"
Essays in Criticism, 75:3, July 2025: 258–274
academic.oup.com/eic/article/...
"Freedom, Responsibility, and Fable in Golding’s Darkness Visible"
Essays in Criticism, 75:3, July 2025: 258–274
academic.oup.com/eic/article/...
"William Golding: The Faber Letters"
The remarkable literary collaboration between a Nobel Prizewinning novelist and his editor of more than forty years
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The remarkable literary collaboration between a Nobel Prizewinning novelist and his editor of more than forty years
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"William Golding: The Faber Letters"
The remarkable literary collaboration between a Nobel Prizewinning novelist and his editor of more than forty years
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
The remarkable literary collaboration between a Nobel Prizewinning novelist and his editor of more than forty years
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"William Blake Was a Prescient Critic of Capitalist Alienation"
By Jonathan Agin
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By Jonathan Agin
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William Blake Was a Prescient Critic of Capitalist Alienation
Before socialism even had a name, the poet and painter William Blake saw how the Industrial Revolution’s "dark Satanic mills" harmed humanity. His visionary work condemned the forces of commodificatio...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"William Blake Was a Prescient Critic of Capitalist Alienation"
By Jonathan Agin
jacobin.com/2025/11/blak...
By Jonathan Agin
jacobin.com/2025/11/blak...
Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve?
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Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve?
Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions
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November 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Have just ordered:
"La Guerre Chaude: Enjeux Stratégiques du Changement Climatique"
www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/en/book/?GCO...
"La Guerre Chaude: Enjeux Stratégiques du Changement Climatique"
www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/en/book/?GCO...
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Have just ordered:
"La Guerre Chaude: Enjeux Stratégiques du Changement Climatique"
www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/en/book/?GCO...
"La Guerre Chaude: Enjeux Stratégiques du Changement Climatique"
www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/en/book/?GCO...
RIP Paolo Virno (1952- 2025), Italian Marxist philosopher and semiologist
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
RIP Paolo Virno (1952- 2025), Italian Marxist philosopher and semiologist
The D'Arcy Room, Campion Hall, University of Oxford (just underneath my office):
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The D'Arcy Room, Campion Hall, University of Oxford (just underneath my office):
"The Catholic Church and the Trump Administration Are Not Getting Along: The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty"
Elizabeth Bruenig www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Elizabeth Bruenig www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Catholic Church and the Trump Administration Are Not Getting Along
The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty.
www.theatlantic.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"The Catholic Church and the Trump Administration Are Not Getting Along: The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty"
Elizabeth Bruenig www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Elizabeth Bruenig www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What's the best scholarly "webinar" series you've seen in the last few months. (If people are still registering for such things). In the humanities/ social sciences. Thanks
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
What's the best scholarly "webinar" series you've seen in the last few months. (If people are still registering for such things). In the humanities/ social sciences. Thanks
A little review by me of an interesting recent book on Christian ethics and the idea of perfection, in "Studies in Christian Ethics". If of interest.
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A little review by me of an interesting recent book on Christian ethics and the idea of perfection, in "Studies in Christian Ethics". If of interest.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"The ten hours' light is abating,
And a late bird flies across,
Where the pines, like waltzers waiting,
Give their black heads a toss."
(from Thomas Hardy, 'At Day-Close in November')
And a late bird flies across,
Where the pines, like waltzers waiting,
Give their black heads a toss."
(from Thomas Hardy, 'At Day-Close in November')
November 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"The ten hours' light is abating,
And a late bird flies across,
Where the pines, like waltzers waiting,
Give their black heads a toss."
(from Thomas Hardy, 'At Day-Close in November')
And a late bird flies across,
Where the pines, like waltzers waiting,
Give their black heads a toss."
(from Thomas Hardy, 'At Day-Close in November')
"Something Wholly New: The real significance of an English king praying with the pope"
Austen Ivereigh
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Austen Ivereigh
www.commonwealmagazine.org/ivereigh-leo...
Something Wholly New
In Rome, Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III met not so much to restore a tradition as to inaugurate a new one.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
"Something Wholly New: The real significance of an English king praying with the pope"
Austen Ivereigh
www.commonwealmagazine.org/ivereigh-leo...
Austen Ivereigh
www.commonwealmagazine.org/ivereigh-leo...
“Literature and Art as Cognitive Objects: From a Poetics of Language to a Poetics of Action”
Patricia Kolaiti
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Patricia Kolaiti
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November 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
“Literature and Art as Cognitive Objects: From a Poetics of Language to a Poetics of Action”
Patricia Kolaiti
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Patricia Kolaiti
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Reposted by Tim Howles
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
So glad you’re reading Golding and especially The Inheritors. Great article.
"Language trapped us tens of thousands of years ago, fundamentally altering our minds. Now, artificial intelligence not only closes the cage but potentially makes escape impossible."
#AI #Golding
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#AI #Golding
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Has language trapped humanity?
Language trapped us tens of thousands of years ago, fundamentally altering our minds. Now, artificial intelligence not only closes the cage but potentially makes escape impossible.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
So glad you’re reading Golding and especially The Inheritors. Great article.