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Bence Nanay @bencenanay.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This one is wild...

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Howard Zinn: "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. 1/4

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Teaching about the roll of risk and achievement in leisure tomorrow. There is a bit in the lecture where I talk about he friend I lost to the mountains Tom Butlin. Its a hard part to get through but I'm always glad that I include it.

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

And the Marion Milnar book sn experiment in leisure I bought particularly to mine for teaching material/ideas but feels genuinely like it might change the way I approach some things in my life!

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

E.g. @carriejenkins.bsky.social 's short book on non-monogamy and happiness looks like it might have some interesting things to say that are relevant to my module on leisure and recreation as well generally for living life

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

When you can't quite remember which books you are reading for research and teaching and which for fun and/or personal development 🤔

Photos of books: Headstrap, Non-monogamy and Happiness and An experiment in leisure

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Numbers of managers in Universities are not just increasing, they are accelerating (gradient is increasing) Data for Cambridge University (£53m deficit) below Rampant unchecked growth of management in Unis is much of the deficit, much of the crisis

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Feeling bad that - though it's a great set of readings - the authors of the set texts for my Play, Games and Recreation module are not very representative of racial or gender diversity.

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Elizabeth Telfer “Leisure”
Bernard Suits “The Death of the Grasshopper”
Frank Hindriks & Igor Douven “Nozick’s experience machine: An empirical study”
Elizabeth Telfer “Leisure”
Jeremy Gilbert “Against The Commodification Of Everything”
Hayden Ramsay “Reflective Leisure”
Gwen Bradford “The Value Of Achievements”
Christopher Yorke “Bernard Suits on capacities: games, perfectionism, and Utopia”
Robert Lovering “Introduction”
Shaun Miller “BDSM”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “Play and Intrinsic Rewards”
Leslie Howe “Intensity and the Sublime”
Erin Tarver “Sports Fandom as Practice of Subjectivization”
Albert Piacente (2020) “Fans and Identity”
Michael J. Roberts “The Politics of Playtime”
J.S. Russell “Idleness would be preferred over game playing as an ideal in Suits’ Utopia”

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Twin-volume alert: Hoping two vols – some 6 lb of solid research – on women #philosopers in the #19thCentury will leave a mark on the field. Thanks to @lydiamoland.bsky.social and Alison Stone for their superb editorship. Challenging a male-dominated canon, one page at a time. #philsky #books

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

My new year's resolution was to start stretching. So far I have failed to stretch but succeeded to have lots of muscular aches and pains. Anyone have a good app recommendations?

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Though note, she says this after noting the positive way such labels can be helpful in self understanding. Calling this combination of positive and negative the "paradox of labels"

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

This, from Jessica Fern's book Polysecure, captures some of my worries around psychological categories as identities.

Photo of text which reads, "labeling or receiving a diagnosis can also comfine us into rigid categories that may restrict our sense of self or obscure the fullness of who we are. Labels can easily keep us stuck in the mindset of this is who I am and so this is who I will continue to be. Instead of seeing ourselves as someone who struggles with anxiety we see ourselves as anxiety itself. Instead of seeing ourselves as someone who is battling with depression we see ourselves as depression itself"

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Welcome, teens coming here from tiktok. I think you’ll find that through the magic of the written word I am able to craft sentences that are as vivid and compelling as any short-form video!

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Super keen to start more work on my play and games teaching but need to finish marking political philosophy essays. Woe is me indeed.

stack of books and looking out the window

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This post was brought to you by being bored with marking . com

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

As a dyslexic I am pretty lax on enforcing grammar rules on students & things like starting sentences with "But" or even "And" seem kinda find. I would like to ban them from using "Moreover" at start of new paragraphs & make them only use "However" when the are introducing genuine contrast though.

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Not super hyped about a mere 8 hours of sun light today - but happy that every day from now the days get longer 🌥️⛅🌤️☀️ #solstice

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Many just assume that their students take a holiday and are capable of happiness. To be inclusive I always say "wishing you every success in achieving your target mood during the school closure."

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Started up an Instagram account that'll focus on exploring outdoors through a philosophical lens (in a wide sense). Come follow my adventures at www.instagram.com/p/DDnjGZAol5...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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uonphilosophy.bsky.social @uonphilosophy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

TALK! Neil Williams @unisouthampton.bsky.social ""I am the River": Identity-forming Relationships and Relational Value." UoN Humanities A01 3-5pm #philosophy #environment #ecophilosophy #identity #value

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My guess is that the students actually have similar instincts it's just the framing that changes how they crystallize into apparently opposite views.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Also because the household income threshold -- beyond which the maintenance loan is reduced, because parents are expected to contribute to their children instead -- is £25,000. Which is about a thousand pounds more than minimum wage for one person.

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Chenwei Nie @chenweinie.com · 29/11/2024

A collection of #Philosophy starter packs on the following themes: 💫 Aesthetics, 2 AI Ancient Greek Biology, 2 Delusion Epistemology, 2 Feminist Global History, 2 Language Legal Literature Math Perception Photography Political, 2, 3 Pragmatism Psychiatry, 2 Science Social Technology Time Trans

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

"The task of the revolutionary is not the task of the ally. We are not here to make the dreams of the proletariat come true. The proletariat is produced by capitalism, which we want to destroy" @crimethinc.com (2012) Terror Incognita

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I find myself having the opposite reaction to the commentator re. Kant though as if he had left his town and not did more or less the same thing every feels like he would have written better philosophy even if not been happier.

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Love this post and even though I am for sure a desire adventures kind of person I agree with lots of it especially against prepackaged "adventures".

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 30/11/2024

Here's a post I wrote arguing against bucket lists (I think they are simply not useful, contribute to harmful mass tourism without enriching people's experience, encouraging people to put off goals for play and recreation until retirement. helendecruz.substack.com/p/against-bu...

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Against bucket lists

This picture shows a line of climbers attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 25/11/2024

Resources for philosophers on Bluesky (updated) 1. Starter packs go.bsky.app/kiKSKZ (individuals) go.bsky.app/RMuQBg3 (orgs) 2. Philosophy feeds bsky.app/profile/did:... – uses #philosophy, #PhilSky & other common hashtags (see profile for others) 3. List of philosophers bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Still exhausted from this walk on Tuesday but it was worth it.

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Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Only in analytic political theory can a book about solidarity include passages like this: "Propositional attitudes are mental states whose content is some proposition. This is why they are often (though not always) expressible by using a that-clause to indicate the proposition being related to."

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I would simply defeat the bear in the marketplace of ideas

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Need to work this the video in to my Philosophy of Leisure module. Soooo much interesting stuff about the contradictory nature of nationalist feeling and the relationship of this to sports fandom is expressed in this wonderful video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=va6n...

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Fat Les - Vindaloo (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by UnionSquareMusic

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Is it important to champion 'abnormality' and, perhaps, even to experiment in 'abnormal' ways of living as part of the construction of new political possibilities? #AskingForAFriend #PoliticalPhilosophy

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

AI suggests: Wandering Minds Philosopher’s Pathfinders Reflective Trails Hike & Ponder Wisdom Walks The Contemplative Compass Socratic Journeys Paths of Perception Beyond the Trail The Enlightened Explorer Thoughtful Treks The Reflective Rambler Eudaimonic Expeditions Philosophy in Motion

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Trying to think of a name for my future outdoor guiding business (after I slowly leave academia or at least go part-time) that might one day become me running a retreat of some sort. Want name to say adventure but also that'll sprinkle in philosophical reflection and maybe some art practice stuff.

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A week of snowy roads, soul searching and trying to convince students that of the many layers of complexity in assessing social contract theory.

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 19/11/2024

I’ve created a new feed for #philosophy job listings. It includes posts with the hashtags #PhilJob, #PhilJobs or #PhilosophyJobs, as well as links to philjobs.org. Save/pin and like the feed if you find it useful! 🙏 #PhilSky #academia bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Super delighted that this paper, six years in the making including the field work, is finally out! And the pictures are so pretty! You can also download the paper on the research section of my website (www.quillrkukla.xyz/research)

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Capitalist and anti-capitalist placemaking through street art

ABSTRACT. Street art can function as a tool of placemaking. It shapes how we experience, move through, and attach meaning to space, as well as how space is

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Progressive house usually features very little in my life but after impulsive click through your sound cloud in powering my marking this morning.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Every university whenever a student metric wobbles a bit

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

"The contrast between playing and seriousness is always fluid" Huizinga, Homo Ludens

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

“The most tragic form of loss isn’t the loss of security; it’s the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.” Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope Quoted in James Muldoon, Platform Socialism

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Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko @jkisolo.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

How depressing (but not surprising). Obviously here the missing (unmeasurable) measure is what changes in the status quo would do longer term positively for wellbeing

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

It's really just as well that Marx did not have access to things like Facebook or Twitter.

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