Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I haven’t seen the film yet, and I intend to (and hope to like it), but this is so very much to the point about so many US adaptations of non-US stuff. Read the whole thread please. 061
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Honoured to deliver a guest lecture today at the International Centre for Philosophy at the University of Bonn. Many thanks to Markus Gabriel for the invitation! I will try to show how ontological issues can influence our ethical and political choices. Looking forward to an interesting discussion! 050
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 03/12/2025What the "anti-escalationists" of all stripes don't realize (or pretend they don't) is that if the Russo-Ukrainian war is ended on Russia's terms, then ALL disputed territories anywhere are immediately up for grabs. Because military force will once again be an acceptable way to change state borders. 041
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 24/10/2025For those who enjoy a good laugh: Hugleikur Dagsson has joined this platform, because of censorship in the Meta. Irreverent and witty as usual, a bit like what George Carlin would have looked like if his jokes were drawn. 060
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 22/08/2025This is out now! Let me know if you wish to read it but do not have access - some free e-prints are still available.tandfonline.comPower: a processual viewThe article proposes a new way to define power and to evaluate it in ethical terms, based on a processual view instead of the habitual object-oriented one. It first presents an outline of process o... 062
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Coming out this spring! Stay tuned! Cover art © Peeter Laurits 2111
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Very happy to note these perceptive comments on my "Being in Flux" by Thomas Fröhlich, a German scholar working on rather different topics than myself, have now been made public. www.researchgate.net/publication/...researchgate.net(PDF) Thomas Fröhlich Comments on Rein Raud, Being in FluxPDF | added on March 25 th , 2025) Heving been focused on Whitehead's process ontology since long, I was astonished to detect an innovative and highly... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate 040
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Garret Graff has been reporting on US events as if they were "happening overseas in a foreign country, where we’re used to foreign correspondents writing with more incisive authority" - although a US publication would hardly dedicate so much space to anything happening in a foreign country.doomsdayscenario.coWhite Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s JuntaA second update on Elon Musk's coup from our intrepid imaginary foreign correspondent 081
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 26/01/2025One of the things Putin has been constantly claiming is that the US, despite all its talk about "democracy" and "human rights" is fundamentally just like Russia. Trump does not have to do Putin's bidding directly. His greatest service to Putin is making his words come true. 1/2 1184
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Just discovered the online philosophy journal Klesis, via @philalethe1.bsky.social - seems very interesting, mostly in French, but with some pieces in English, incl by David Chalmers, @keithfrankish.bsky.social, @lukeroelofs.bsky.social and others. Certainly seems worth following! 0113
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 21/01/2025There is a profound contradiction at the heart of the "conservative" (=radical extreme right) worldview: on the one hand, they want women to bear as many children as possible, on the other, they do what they can to make the planet uninhabitable by the time these children might come of age. 191
Reposted by Rein RaudThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/01/2025An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off | Stewart Leetheguardian.comAn information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off | Stewart LeeAs Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos attempt to reshape our reality, my advice is to avoid their toxic platforms and wait it out Wow! That escalated quickly. Last time I filed my supposedly funny column, only two weeks ago, Los Angeles wasn’t on fire;… 38842295
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Now that the birthday of #Deleuze is over, I hope nobody minds my saying that I have a problem with him. The reason? He gets too much credit as the inventor of things that had been invented long before him by people he had no respect for. Who? Asian philosophers. The list is too long. 051
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 18/01/2025A metaphysician is a physician who cures other physicians. And metastable? A building where metahorses live. 041
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Anyone interested in process ontology might want to look at Dynamic Realism - Uncovering the Reality of Becoming through Phenomenology and Process Philosophy, by Tina Röck (Edinburgh UP 2022). We share a lot, but there are interesting differences - she relies a lot on Husserl, quite surprisingly! 192
Reposted by Rein RaudMikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025A common myth used by many pundits is that Russia is somehow invincible. It is not. Losses in Russo-Japanese war, World War I and Soviet-Afghan war led also to regime change. Ukraine must be supported so that imperialist Russia collapses. euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/08/i... 23313
Reposted by Rein RaudSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/01/2025There's no fuzz on the lesson we must take from the ascension of Donald Trump and Elon Musk in U.S. politics: when you fail to equitably apply the rule of law to all persons regardless of their wealth or connections, you create a class of criminal as shameless and pathological as they are dangerous. 437292
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 31/12/2024I almost managed to get through this year without publishing anything. Almost. Just a moment ago, I got the notice that my "Selfhood and Individuality in Dōgen’s Thought" is now out (open access). A nice present! A happy turn of the year to you too! www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...mdpi.comSelfhood and Individuality in Dōgen’s ThoughtThe article addresses one of the central issues of Buddhist thought, the status of selfhood and individuality, as they are discussed in the work of the Japanese Zen thinker Dōgen (1200–1253). It discu... 060
Reposted by Rein RaudAnna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas. 15272412273
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 18/12/2024The whole thread about neural AI networks is interesting, but this is something exceptional (also what I have suspected for quite some time). 020
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Asking for advice: I hope to be teaching a seminar on the philosophy of mental health this spring term and I already have a rather nice list of texts for my syllabus (in the first comment), but I am likely to be missing some imporant names. Please point them out to me. 271
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Misinformation spreads more quickly when it provokes moral outrage, and readers are less likely to fact-check as well. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgMisinformation exploits outrage to spread onlineWe tested a hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to spread online, examining generalizability across multiple platforms, time periods, and classifications of misinformation. Outrage is high... 170
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 25/11/2024An exercise in conceptual analysis: find the contradiction in the following statement by the founders of the “American Academy”, planned to become the leading US university: “It will be strictly non-political, and there will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed—none of that's going to be allowed.” 020
Reposted by Rein RaudTom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share! 4951939811225
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 23/11/2024In a struggle, what you need to do is to influence your opponent’s decision-making capacities. You can do that f ex by manipulating the information they rely on. Or try to remove competent strategists from the picture. 1/2 110
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 20/11/2024What if Deleuze'is "body without organs" is a deliberate dash at Whitehead, who called his work "the philosophy of organism"? We know that Deleuze really only discusses him once, and a bit superficially even then, see the linked article by @sshaviro.bsky.social. www.shaviro.com/Othertexts/D...shaviro.com 141
Reposted by Rein RaudAltmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetricsdocs.bsky.appAction Intent Links | BlueskyAuthors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu... 166113164573
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 18/11/2024+ the Authoritarian International of Putin, Xi, Kim, Le Pen, AfD, courting Modi, Erdogan and many others. And let's put them in the first place of the whole list of whom the people have to face. (NB! The People, too, should be "the people everywhere" and not "The People" as in American court cases). 020
Reposted by Rein RaudGloPhi – Philosophizing in a Globalized World @glophi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Let’s connect! Philosophers working on cross-cultural philosophy, decolonial theory, and World Philosophies, let us know if you want to join the pack go.bsky.app/581tzug 206426
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Just discovered this - seems very useful, and very generous of @helendecruz.net to share! Also nice to feel that being here instead of working on my “Dōgen on selfhood” article has been time well spent. 030
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline 050
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Whoever follows the object-process debate might want to read this recent article by Pascal Massie. I think his treatment of opponents is fair and Massie is also engaging with material by @objectoriented.bsky.social that is not too widely known. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comProcess and individuation (on speculative realism and becoming)Recent developments in the continental tradition have taken a realist turn that reveals an oscillation between, on the one hand, an ontology of virtuality that thinks of reality as process and contin... 162
Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 16/11/2024One of those days when you have to read Nietzshce to the logs in the fireplace so that they would get how much more fun it might be if they were burning. 010