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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“For a consciousness to be capable of imagining, it needs to be free,” argued Jean-Paul Sartre. I’m excited to be leading The Freedom to Imagine event, a provocation for the International Arts & Imagination Network. Sept 24, 11am EDT, first 40 spots free! www.ticketsource.com/creativity-c...

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"The Freedom to Imagine - International Arts and Imagination Network (IAIN)" at Online

Tickets are now available for The Freedom to Imagine - International Arts and Imagination Network (IAIN) at Online, Online on Thursday 24th September 2026 at 4:00PM. Click the link for further informa...

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“I’m not swipe-able!” I say to my teen when he gets impatient with me after 3 seconds, so I went looking for what to do about these attention-sucking screens and found an answer in Nietzsche’s controversial advice involving a whip substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Are you using AI? Do Not Forget Your Whip

On creating distance from AI, with advice from Nietzsche

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Save the date! 10/18 I’ll be in conversation with Dr Celine Leboeuf for the launch of her new book The Tyranny of Thinness & what it means to reclaim agency, pleasure & self-worth in a world that profits from our dissatisfaction @interintellect.bsky.social interintellect.com/salons/book-...

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[Upcoming Event] Book Launch: The Tyranny of Thinness

Join Skye Cleary in conversation with Dr. Céline Leboeuf for the launch of her new book, The Tyranny of Thinness. In this fearless philosophical manifesto, Leboeuf traces the racist and misogynistic r...

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hedy bach @hedybach.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Let us begin by saying that what we mean by “existentialism” is a doctrine that makes human life possible and also affirms that every truth and every action imply an environment and a human subjectivity,’ Sartre tells the audience.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/07/2026

“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.” Simone de Beauvoir

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

AI and the anguish of choosing #philsjy

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If you are what you do, what are you when something else does it for you? My latest WIP (wondering-in-progress) on @substack about Sartre & AI substack.com/home/post/p-...

Picture of a man at Club Maintenant and 2 doors

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Obsessed! Iris van Herpen at the Brooklyn Museum - incredible ✨

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I finally joined substack 😬 substack.com/@skyecleary

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My new essay for @aeon.co out today explores what Sartre got right & wrong about freedom and anguish in a lecture so packed that 30 chairs got broken & 15 people passed out! aeon.co/essays/re-re...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

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Shawn Adamsson @adamsson.ca · 11/05/2026

Not even noon and have added three more books to the TBR pile. Bluesky is the conveyor belt in this I Love Lucy skit that has become my life.

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I Love Lucy Chocolate Factory Scene

ALT: I Love Lucy Chocolate Factory Scene

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Out of our minds on May 20 in NYC! I’ll be in conversation with Professor Kathryn Tabb about how the boundary between madness and sanity reveals who gets to belong at the Sophia Club. Tickets: sophiaclub.co/event/out-of... #philosophy #madness #sanity #SophiaClub

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Out of our minds — Roulette Intermedium, May 20 | Sophia Club

How the boundary between madness and sanity reveals who gets to belong

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Aug 15: I’m returning to Philosophy in the Bookshop to discuss existentialism & authenticity with @nigelwarburton.bsky.social in Oxford. If you’re in the hood, would love to see you there! It’s free! RSVP: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...

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PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with Skye Cleary

Philosophy Skye Cleary returns to our Philosophy in the Bookshop series to discuss existentialism and authenticity with Nigel Warburton

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

How to Be a (Happy) Skeptic! On June 16 I’ll be in conversation with @Massimo Pigliucci about his new book How to Be a (Happy) Skeptic: The Power of Doubt in a Meaningful Life–Lessons from Cicero's Philosophy. Join us on zoom! RSVP: www.meetup.com/global-stoa/...

Picture of book cover with statue of cicero

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky.com · 23/12/2025

Among the books to be censored in this way are 'The Thirst For Authenticity' - a book by US researcher Skye Cleary about the ideas of feminist Simone de Beauvoir - and 'Day', a 2023 novel by American author Michael Cunningham. [9/13]

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Adam Kadlac @ajkadlac.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Also want to publicly thank @eschwitz.bsky.social, @skyecleary.bsky.social, and Ned Adams for their very generous back-cover blurbs!

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Just got tix to Waiting for Godot! But I have to wait for Waiting for Godot until September. I wonder if September will arrive, or the performance will, or I will. Feeling very meta.

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 09/04/2025

This 16th-century ‘spiritual rock-star’ shows how seeing your soul as a castle can be a source of strength and consolation. Learn how to find inner peace like Teresa of Ávila @skyecleary.bsky.social

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How to find inner peace like Saint Teresa of Ávila | Psyche Ideas

The 16th-century ‘spiritual rock-star’ shows how seeing your soul as a castle can be a source of strength and consolation

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

St Teresa has been on my radar for ages, ever since I read about her in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex so many years ago. I finally spent some time thinking about her and this is what I learned: psyche.co/ideas/how-to...

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Book club in May! Deets coming soon 📖

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

On churros & the meaning of life (new favorite poem 💕)

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A small reprieve in an absurd world. Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature at @metmuseum.org did not disappoint. Also new socks 😍 to “remind me how small I am, but also how miraculous this life is.” - Alua Arthur on encountering Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 25/03/2025

Simone de Beauvoir famously asked if it is right to be happy in a world that’s broken. | iai.tv/articles/hap... @skyecleary.bsky.social writes how happiness can be a form of resistance against the injustice and absurdity of life. #langsky

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Happiness as a form of resistance | Skye Cleary

Is it right to be happy in a world that’s broken? That’s the question Simone de Beauvoir went to Albert Camus with. Beauvoir was worrying that being focussed on one’s own happiness meant one had to…

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

My two rescue bunnies were so thumping mad about their vet visit today that the doctor gave me bunny xanax (gabapentin) for next time. She hasn’t forgiven me & here’s her I’ll-tolerate-your-proximity-but-you’re-not-allowed-to-pat-me-because-I’m-still-a-bit-mad-and-don’t-trust-you-right-now look

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

One of my favorite things about being an Australian in the US is being asked to explain to Americans what budgie smugglers are. So a budgie is short for budgerigar which is like a small parakeet native to Australia. Now, imagine... And watching them be like:

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Everything is bad

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

And bootlegging some Foot for my management class tomorrow with The Good Place. Haven’t yet decided whether to include the Beast Games S7 train of elimination. Painful to watch such a blatant metaphor for our current hellscape 💔

Still from beast games illustrating trolley problem

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Bootlegging a little Buber into my leadership class :)

Martin Buber’s I-Thou book cover & an image objectifying a stick figure

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"and what is your field of expertise?" me:

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 20/02/2025

Nihilism: nothing matters Absurdism: nothing matters, but in a cool way. Existentialism: freely choose among all the various things that don't matter!

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Unpopular trivial opinion: Toblerone would be better without the nougat.

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Don't miss this week's new episode, in which Amy Olberding discussed Confucian ethics, in an interview centering on the idea that etiquette and rudeness are fundamental moral concepts: www.historyofphilosophy.net/confucian-et... #confucianism #philsky #podcasts #hopwag

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23. Amy Olberding on Confucian Ethics | History of Philosophy without any gaps

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This tee used to make me laugh but now not so much seriously, what the 🦆

tshirt that says seriously what the duck

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Introducing my little coworking buddy Beans who likes hanging out by my desk 🥰 #BunsOfBlueSky #BeansDay #Bunnies #RescueBunny (also amazingly doesn’t chew cables, maybe because he’s so full on treats 😂)

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WHO @who.int · 11/02/2025

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 11/02/2025

One of the wrongest things I've ever read about philosophy, it has been the most important and useful practical skill in my life.

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Skye Cleary @skyecleary.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I see Caturday trending but how about Bunday? She is one of my two super sweet rescue bunnies :) #BunsOfBlueSky #bunday #bunny #rabbit

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