Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026An update for our age with regard to Plotinus' insight that "it is not necessary for one who is reading to be consciously aware that he is reading – indeed, it is especially then that he reads intently". 🫠 011
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"History’s great canvas was a constant lure, yet my opinion on historical research is that it has to be done thoroughly and then almost abandoned, to let the imagination do its essential work. (Kipling described this process as lighting a great fire and then working only with its riddled embers.)" 🔥theguardian.com‘My generation of novelists is dying’: Rose Tremain on 70 years of writing, and late-life inspirationAs her latest novel about Daphne du Maurier is published, the bestselling author reflects on age and creativity – and why at 83 she has no plans to stop 011
Reposted by Tim FlanaganCharlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"existence + imagination = reality" (from my forthcoming translation of Proust: A Family Affair by Laure Murat) 061
Reposted by Tim FlanaganThe Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In a new case study blog from his forthcoming book on allegorical iconography in European #magic and #alchemical manuscripts, former Frances Yates Fellow Sergei Zotov discusses the imagery of 'Le Véritable Dragon Rouge', a #grimoire published c.1850. Learn more ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... 083
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Naww 🤩abc.net.auVideo captures ranger's joyful tears on finding rare night parrot chickNew video captures a sighting of the elusive bird in its grassy home in the remote Great Sandy Desert during the day. 030
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A great initiative ahead of the Grand Final 🏉🏆getoffmychest.com.auWoodside, Get Off My ChestWoodside’s actions threaten the future of AFL, so why are we still advertising them on our chests? Freo fans are calling full time on fossil fuel sponsorship. Join the team to kick out Woodside. 020
Reposted by Tim FlanaganFrance Culture @franceculture.fr · 19/09/2026L’automatisation a longtemps concerné les gestes et les savoir-faire. Pour la philosophe Anne Alombert, l’IA touche désormais des activités que l’on pensait réservées à l’intelligence humaine : écrire, analyser, décider, créer. ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/YtV 12615
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 17/09/202613yrs ago - But still, wow.reuters.comMan shot in Russia in argument over KantAn argument over the theories of 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant ended in a man being shot in a grocery store in southern Russia. 020
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I wonder what such a machine might do for higher learning (asking for a friend) 🤔 110
Reposted by Tim FlanaganAustralasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) @aussoccontiphil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Are YOU planning to throw an EVENT but need some FUNDING? Check out the ASCP Events Grant – now open for the SECOND time this year! 🤑💰 EOIs for this round are due by COB October 8. Please send your proposal, or any questions you might have, to secretary@ascp.org.au. www.ascp.org.au/about-the-as...ascp.org.auASCP EventsAustralasian Society for Continental Philosophy 021
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A great essay - well supported by its engagement with the inimitable 'Dictionary of Untranslatables' (edited by Barbara Cassin). 075
Reposted by Tim FlanaganDalia Nassar @dalianassar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I finally got to meet and talk to the legend, David Marr - what an amazing conversationalist he is! We talked about Alexander von Humboldt, art, ecology, and why it's so important for science to be informed by the arts on Late Night Live... More information here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...abc.net.auHumboldt - the philosopher who started the ecology movement - ABC listenThe idea that everything in nature is interconnected comes largely from the German philosopher, geographer, naturalist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt. After a scientific expedition to the Americ... 051
Reposted by Tim FlanaganThe Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Where does the voice we know as Sappho’s come from? Emily Greenwood on Mary Barnard’s inventive translation, back in print this fall.yalereview.orgHow Mary Barnard Invented the Sappho We Fell In Love WithEmily Greenwood on Mary Barnard, Anne Carson, and how translators have interpreted Sappho. 195
Reposted by Tim FlanaganArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026On Music, Memory, and Damascus "Music is one of the arts most connected to place, as it is a physical vibration in a space."... arablit.org/2026/09/08/on-music-mem…arablit.orgOn Music, Memory, and Damascus"Music is one of the arts most connected to place, as it is a physical vibration in a space." 062
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Happy Pataphysical New Year to all who celebrate 🥳 031
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026As things would have it, I came across this 1957 edition at the second-hand bookshop today #Μοῖραι 0141
Reposted by Tim FlanaganCharlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A friend just sent me a sentence from my translation of Proust's In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, along with Moncrieff's version: 0132
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Intriguing account of an “autism poetics” in Plautine comedy - that “we recognize in Plautus’s ebulliently homophonic aesthetics… the stylistic and affective markers of autistic echolalia” 🤔bmcr.brynmawr.eduRoman comedy against the subject – Bryn Mawr Classical Review 000
Reposted by Tim FlanaganFrance Culture @franceculture.fr · 03/09/2026Posséder, ce n’est pas seulement avoir des biens. C’est aussi entretenir un rapport actif à ce que nous sommes capables de faire. Avec l’IA, le philosophe Frédéric Gros met en lumière le risque d’une intelligence progressivement désapprise. ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/jYr 12216
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"At the center of what you do, place something mysterious and unbreakable... The old Greek sense of the word 'problem' is something placed in front of you. Because it stands there, and because you cannot destroy it or simply go through it, you are obliged to circle around it."e-flux.comI Have A Polysemic Imagination: A Conversation - Notes - e-fluxJean-Pierre Gorin in conversation on cinema imagination 010
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It's the future we've been threatened (via @mcsweeneys.net)mcsweeneys.netOur University Does Not Require Books, Paper, or Human Knowledge“Such a radical shakeup in learning has never happened before, as far as I know. Is there even a way to learn about whether or not something has happened bef... 0169
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026No surprise to read that Philippa Nikulinsky "spent decades working with scientists as a botanical illustrator" - her work is exquisite.abc.net.auThe female artists who shaped botanical illustration in AustraliaFemale botanical illustrators have translated the science of our landscapes for centuries, today the craft is as important as ever. 031
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I remember @floridi.bsky.social give a seminar paper at Dundee twenty years ago. I'd never have thought there'd need to be a call to save the philosophy programme, but hopefully his voice helps that chorus be heard.scotsman.com'Philosophy is a line of defence against AI': Calls to save threatened Dundee courseThe philosophy programme at Dundee University is under threat due to budget cuts - but academics say AI means the subject is more vital than ever 021
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"What actually happens when we read the words on the page, look up the key terms, push against the ideas in a text, scan a bibliography, find the sources, identify a conversation, and put down our own thoughts in language?"defector.comHumanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | DefectorFor many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ... 012
Reposted by Tim FlanaganRadical Philosophy @radical-philosophy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026RP2.21 is out now! - Rebecca Comay on The 18th Brumaire - Grégoire Chamayou on data centres - Danny Hayward on Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance - Werner Bonefeld on Adorno, plus a newly translated Adorno lecture with intro by Jake Orbison And more… www.radicalphilosophy.com 2308
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026(With echoes through to J.M.W Turner and A.N. Whitehead)bmcr.brynmawr.eduTimaeus in paradise: metaphors and beauty from Plato to Dante and beyond – Bryn Mawr Classical Review 021
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Diotama's 'ladder' as a model for "non-trad ways of thinking about beauty" 🤩 #🪜 011
Reposted by Tim FlanaganGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The world started going to shit when governments began defunding humanities and suggesting STEM is all we need to encourage. 50617122
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"We need more talk about study and less talk about 'research.' Research makes knowledge, but study makes thoughtful, free, self-aware human beings who pursue understanding." (@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social)lareviewofbooks.orgFighting the Frackers | Los Angeles Review of BooksD. Graham Burnett discusses the politics of attention in our algorithmic age. 020
Reposted by Tim FlanaganAmy @amyinvernizzi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Why science needs the humanities more than ever www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comWhy science needs the humanities more than everFrom AI to biotechnology, today’s scientific breakthroughs raise ethical and social challenges that technical expertise alone cannot solve. 0132
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Blinked recently? ⚡️ There's a chance you haven't seen some new and forthcoming titles 🙈link.springer.comPalgrave Perspectives on Process PhilosophyThe aim of this series is to provide monographs, edited collections and Palgrave Pivots from both established and early career scholars in Process Philosophy, ... 020
Reposted by Tim FlanaganAlina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Handwriting is to space what the voice is to time. - Susan Stewart, “On Longing” 1288
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026We're lucky that writing like this is still produced 181
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"To draw the mine is to accept that the unseen is not outside architecture but folded into its lines."drawingmatter.orgCartography of a WoundHow do you draw a diamond mine? How do you depict a wound on the terrain, a spiral of extraction so powerful that it reorganises entire territories? On the sheet, the mine becomes a self-contained wor... 001
Reposted by Tim FlanaganDr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Perspective view of a young woman reading a letter c. 1670, by Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch Baroque artist, pupil of Rembrandt, born #OTD 1627. He was known for experimental perspective views of interiors, with light & shadow defining architectural space and mood. ALT Mauritshuis, den Haag 310422
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"An indefinitely recursive process does not transform an externally given standard into a self-legislated law."e-flux.comThe Thinking Machine: Response to Yuk Hui - Notes - e-fluxAlex Taek-Gwang Lee engages with Yuk Hui’s new book Kant Machine. 020
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Some pretty cool work being done here 'on campus' @murdoch.edu.auabc.net.auWhale sharks are serial snackers, dorsal fin cameras revealFootage taken from the perspective of whale sharks on Ningaloo Reef uncovers previously unknown feeding behaviours of the world's biggest fish. 010
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026It's the Brass Neck club 🤑🤢afr.comThe university executives paid more than the prime ministerMore than 100 senior university executives made more than $622,000 last year, but not all the roles will be covered by an incoming remuneration guide for vice chancellor pay. 010
Reposted by Tim FlanaganAustralasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) @aussoccontiphil.bsky.social · 15/07/2026ASCP letter in support of Dundee Philosophy ascp.org.au/news/stateme...ascp.org.auIn Support of Dundee PhilosophyAustralasian Society for Continental Philosophy 112
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026"... it’s in the conditions of breakdown that the possibility of insight arises. We don’t get new insight when things are working smoothly. We get them when things break. That’s where the possibility of change emerges."english.elpais.comDonna Haraway, philosopher: ‘We live in a pro-natalist, anti-child world. Babies should be rare and precious’One of the most influential thinkers on technology and feminism, she combines vision with irony, and her writing carries a distinctly punk edge. Faced with rising authoritarianism, she urges people to... 010
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Telling them to "jog on" is the polite phrasingbetootaadvocate.comPublic's Already Very Low Opinion Of Gas Sector Probably A Good Reason For Government To Not Let Woodside Smash Scott ReefWENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT As the sands of the largely royalty-free gas landscape continue to shift, a professor from our very own South Betoota Polytechnic has today called for a line to be pu... 000
Reposted by Tim FlanaganHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde... 727693
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Bettongs, mulgaras, woylies, boodies, and dibblers - nawww 😍abc.net.auDecade of work helps remote island's native wildlife 'return to 1616'Researchers were unafraid to get their hands "dirty" in an ambitious bid to restore WA's largest island to its pre-colonial state. 020
Reposted by Tim FlanaganLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/07/2026‘In 1905, Einstein had no academic position, but somehow managed during that year to write 21 reviews for an academic journal and to publish four major scientific papers.’ @raymodraco.bsky.social on Einstein. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukRay Monk · Einstein’s Miracle Year‘Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?’ Albert Einstein’s question acknowledges the great... 0124
Reposted by Tim FlanaganAdam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 19/07/2026“Here’s the reality: If you, as an administrator or professor, care little about whether the education you offer is a quality product, and if you have little faith in the transformative power of that education, then these kinds of changes are going to be acceptable to you.”hedgehogreview.comArtificial NegligenceFaculty sense that AI could make old-fashioned teaching and learning much more difficult to achieve, if not obsolete. 03612
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Donald Horne's 'Lucky Country' thesis - in full, though in miniature 🦘open.substack.comWhen did university leaders lose their moral compasses?It seems having a second job when you are a vice chancellor is just fine. Says who? Vice chancellors, of course. 000
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026🍷 #TGIFbmcr.brynmawr.eduWine and ecstasy in Plato: a metaphor of sorts and its early reception – Bryn Mawr Classical Review 010