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Mark Eli Kalderon

@markelikalderon.bsky.social
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Philosopher working on philosophy of perception and its history

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George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 9h
For @bandcamp.com I wrote about William Burroughs' cut-ups being cut up by James Ilgenfritz, Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, and others
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Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz & Anagram Ensemble, “The Travel Agency Is On Fire”
Cut-up poetry meets cut-up music on an album that must be heard to be believed.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 16h
Dada perfection
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Sander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 16h
Is US analytic philosophy a product of McCarthyism?
 In this blog ⬇️, I return to the archival material I studied for my book (departmental records, correspondence, newspapers, personnel files) and argue that the answer is ‘no’. Blog dailynous.com/2026/09/29/a... Book academic.oup.com/book/63149
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Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post) - Daily Nous
To what extent is the “the story about the analytic turn” in philosophy a story about politics? There’s been an increased discussion in recent years […]
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 17h
If your study on vision uses pictures, you are studying image perception, not perception of the environment
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Melvin Gibbs @melvingibbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That’s what I did Toni
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The ‘wine-dark sea’ and the problem of seeing epigram.org.uk/the-wine-dar...
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The ‘wine-dark sea’ and the problem of seeing
Jana Bazeed discusses the ressurected topic of Homer's wine-dark sea and how language shapes our everyday perception.
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Deep into the Murder Your Darlings phase of writing I hate it
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ever wondered if philosophers are influential? Observe that the ai feelings debate looks the way it does because of Malebranche and Descartes in the 17C.
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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
a celebration of 100 years of John Coltrane. one of the earliest mentions of him in print: the Louisiana Weekly of 15 January 1949. And Ralph Gleason's praise from the SF Chronicle, 15 Sept 1960
"Eddie Vinson's New 'Kid' Band Is Sensational," with Coltrane listed along with James Young, James Rhodes, William Garland and John Coles
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Glad to see the Coltrane posts begin to wash out the Stancil posts on the timeline
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Out of this world youtu.be/6aKHMd_jESI?...
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Out Of This World
YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic
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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
💥 Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social joins Dessy Gavrilova at the Vienna Humanities Festival in a conversation about "The Problems of Consciousness". ⏱️ 26.09 @ 17:00 📍 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Sitzungssaal Join us this Saturday! buff.ly/rcmGFKA #VHF26 #philsky @iwm.at #viennaevent
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TIM CRANE | VIENNA HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
VIENNA HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
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Epoché Magazine @epochemagazine.org · 23/09/2026
From the archive: "Learning to Read the Signs of Heaven: Plotinus on the Art and Philosophy of Divination", by Max Wade #Philosophy #Philsky
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Learning to Read the Signs of Heaven: Plotinus on the Art and Philosophy of Divination
From the archive: "Learning to Read the Signs of Heaven: Plotinus on the Art and Philosophy of Divination", by Max Wade
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 22/09/2026
Readers sense this type of illusion does exist – and send in their personal experiences
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Last Word: Do olfactory illusions exist, similar to optical and audio illusions? | New Scientist
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Sander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Busted!
"100% of this text is AI" score on the first lines of Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Pangram)
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Plato derides the teaching of dialectics to young men lest it inadvertently lead to lawlessness (Res Publica VII 537c-539d) was he prophesizing the rise of right wing podcast bros just asking questions?
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tempted by noncognitivism about metaphilosophy. Some meatphilosophical discourse being prescriptivist, others a crude emotivism of the “Boo!”/“Hurrah!” variety
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On Pussy Riot and the FSB www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘My fear was too great’: the Pussy Riot member recruited by Russian spies to inform on fellow activists
Exclusive: In her first media interview since fleeing Russia, Rita Flores describes her three years of being run by the FSB
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Frye, Bloom, and the anxiety of influence lareviewofbooks.org/article/haro...
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Lord Knows What I Am | Los Angeles Review of Books
What we can learn from the published correspondence of literary critic and academic titan Harold Bloom.
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Apparently it is no longer possible to extoll the virtues of one's favored approach to philosophy without shitting on others MAGA level trolling
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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After the Post-Avant-Garde | The Point Magazine
When the art market can get by with flashy and ineffectual figurative paintings that are easy to sell on Instagram, it no longer has any reason to care about what’s going on in artistic subcultures. I...
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Literacy is not dead, it just smells funky literaryreview.co.uk/zombie-ipoca...
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Anthony Gottlieb - Zombie iPocalypse
Anthony Gottlieb: Zombie iPocalypse - The New Dark Ages: The End of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society by James Marriott
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Proclus on Aristotle on Plato: A Case Study on Motion
In the Timaeus, Plato famously characterised time as ‘an image of eternity moving according to number’. The former is a derivative, partial reflection of the l…
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We met with the new Science Minister Chris McDonald yesterday. He indicated his strong support across all R&D disciplines which was great to hear. He is keen to get to know the social science, humanities and arts, and has offered to meet with our community which we'll take forward
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Friend just sent me this picture of a painting in Bar Italia, wondering if it portrays Mike Ratledge who was a frequent patron Would be more confident if he wore a leather jacket. Also the moustache did not survive the 20th century… blob:null/cd2bafa5-a4c6-4a58-84ef-a9c63213c96a
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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We're also planning to honour Susan Hurley with a memorial talk, since next year marks 20 years since she died. Susan was professor at the University of Warwick between 1994 and 2005, and did some of her most influential work on animal minds while there.
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Rob, Marianne and I will be covering Gibson 1979 Chapter 12 today, 1730 UK time; watch live here www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7-9...
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Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (Chap 12)
YouTube video by Rob Gray
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“What one gathers from these misreadings is not so much that science fiction itself is nefarious, but that arrested development might be” www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
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We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys
Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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eXistenZ (Jude Law) - Ending Scene
YouTube video by Twisted Mosh's Asylum
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight... Indeed, the mass production at faster and faster pace of “true/false” statements could destroy fertile ground instead of breathing life into new ideas.” mathandai.org
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"He was capable of taking off from the point of his own minor perversities—procrastination, prolixity—and supplying a far darker setting for them." Emily Ogden on Poe’s imagination.
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Emily Ogden on the True Horror of Edgar Allan Poe's Stories
Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are full of ghastly crimes, but the true horror lies in their confessions, Emily Ogden writes.
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
On the perils of mindfulness www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Dark Side of Mindfulness
A prominent psychologist and meditation teacher set out to research the benefits of the practice. What she found alarmed her.
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On Moby Dick yalereview.org/article/tom-...
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Tom McCarthy on Moby-Dick and the Sublime
The novelist on Herman Melville's tale and the sublime.
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Jonathan Webber @jonathanwebber.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#philsky #booksky ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Coming soon ... ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ @routledgebooks.bsky.social
Cover of the forthcoming Routledge book Existentialism: The Basics by Jonathan Webber. Cover image is a photo of a Parisian café in a classic Hausmann block with street chairs and tables. Photo includes the floor above the café, largely obscured by the series' signature hole/ball with the title and author name in, then above it some of the next floor with wrought iron juliette balconies.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 08/09/2026
Update: The academic flight from Twitter is now complete and appears permanent. April 2023, after the pandemic research surge, we recorded 2,234,307 posts sharing research on Twitter. As of April this year, "X" had 896,741 posts about research. That's a 60% drop in traffic.
Graph showing cumulative research sharing across platforms, including Twitter - April 2023Graph of April 2026 cumulative research sharing including "X". One third of what it was.
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“The president has the final say.” www.persuasion.community/p/i-taught-a...
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I Taught a Short Story. My College Fired Me For It.
Academic censorship is very real.
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Deskilling is not the sole provenance of AI apparently
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Finally updating Mac OS and bidding farewell to TextMate which remained Intel only Allan Odgaard, why have you foresaken us?
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tragically today, it’s the 386th anniversary of the death of René Descartes’ daughter Francine at the age of just five—to which he responded by building a robot daughter he took everywhere with him until she was murdered by superstitious sailors, hastening the philosopher’s own death Well... 🧵
A dramatic illustration showing a man in 17th century clothes raising an automaton/doll above his head as he prepares to throw it over the side of a ship
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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rare and essential -- long TV interview in late 1986 with Sonny Rollins, who is clearly comfortable talking with Gil Noble. Sonny also plays a bit too. Thanks to Lewis Porter for unearthing and posting. lewisporter.substack.com/p/sonny-roll...
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Sonny Rollins: A Long Interview on TV, and He Plays Too!
[Remember, please use the Index to find all articles on a given subject—such as my previous sixteen essays on Rollins, with more to come!]
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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The @alcs.co.uk provides authors a much needed, and frankly, amazing service. Do sign up if you haven’t yet.
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wissenschaft des Nichtwissenwerthen? Dodds, you’re killing me
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🎀🥞🪴p̷a̷n̷c̷a̷k̷e̷ s̷y̷n̷d̷r̷o̷m̷e̷☣️🎀🍡❌ idiot doll of agony❌💫 ⚠️porn account⚠️ @pancakesyndrome.xyz · 03/09/2026
i generally avoid video essays but if he were to ever start doing them i would watch mr t pls tell me about neoplatonism
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I hate being a completist (which for an academic means, if you read something, you read the whole of it) Just found a reference to something pertinent in Proclus' commentary on Parmenides Sigh Diving in...
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Christoph Hoerl @christophhoerl.eurosky.social · 16/03/2026
What constitutes 'Time Perception' as a field of research? My take in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu/pub/h9s6crp1...
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Time Perception
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92
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Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92
Famous for the 1963 exposé in which she worked as a Playboy Bunny, her books and journalism took on many varieties of discrimination Gloria Steinem, the American feminist and journalist whose activism helped push through greater rights for women around the world has died, aged 92. Steinem “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her”, a statement shared to her Instagram page said. Continue reading...
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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Sometimes I think composers talk too much. There is only music, that's it!" Morton Feldman and Iannis Xenakis: In conversation Edited by Vincent Gasseling and Michael Nieuwenhuizen www.ubu.com/media/text/F...
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Why is AI writing … LIKE THAT? www.derekthompson.org/p/the-intern...
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We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet
An interview with Pangram founder and CEO Max Spero on how AI writing has flooded the internet, why it matters, and why it’s worth cleaning up
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