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Tim Flanagan

@timflanagan.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Humanities (διεντέρευμα) Murdoch University 📖 "Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least Distances" link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-… philpeople.org/profiles/tim-flanagan

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Une maison est une machine à habiter.” Le Corbusier, Swiss-French pioneer of modern architecture, born #OTD 1887. Villa Savoye à Poissy 1931
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At first I thought this was just another headline about property investors
perthnow.com.au
Severe shark warning issued for entire Perth coastline
An 18-tonne rotting whale carcass has finally been hoisted away, but an urgent shark warning now covers the entire Perth coast as great whites continue to prowl the shallows.
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Il y a bien une étymologie philosophique, ou bien une philologie philosophique." (Gilles Deleuze)
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Root as a direct translation from the source text; Branch as a translation supported by a bridge translation; and Driftwood as a transcreation that was inspired by the source text or that archived some aspect of the text"
asymptotejournal.com
Red Earth and Pouring Rain: An Interview with Five Tamil Translators on Thinai and Transcreation - Asymptote Blog
The poems themselves, both past and present, become the balm for what life denies you.
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
theonion.com
Ant Farm Teaches Children About Toil, Death
PASADENA, CA–Wonderco, a Pasadena-based educational-toy manufacturer, unveiled its new Playscovery Cove Ant Village Monday, touting the ant farm as a fun, interactive way to teach children ages 5 and ...
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An 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". 🫠
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Am reminded of this bloke 🫣
edition.cnn.com
‘Mum thinks I’m an idiot’: Australian man admits ‘surfing’ dead whale was bad idea | CNN
An Australian man who “surfed” a floating whale carcass surrounded by sharks has admitted that he was an “idiot” to attempt the foolhardy feat.
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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 inspiration
As 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
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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"existence + imagination = reality" (from my forthcoming translation of Proust: A Family Affair by Laure Murat)
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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In 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/...
Der Güldene Griff/ Das ist: Alle Dinge ohne Irrthum zu erkennen; Valentin Weigel, 1697, Frankfurt; Nds. Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (DE-7)SUB Göttingen; 8 TH TH I, 708/5 (1). Rosarium philosophorum. Sankt Gallen, Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana, Vadianische Sammlung der Ortsbürgergemeinde, Ms. VadSlg 394A, fol. 69r.
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Naww 🤩
abc.net.au
Video captures ranger's joyful tears on finding rare night parrot chick
New video captures a sighting of the elusive bird in its grassy home in the remote Great Sandy Desert during the day.
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A great initiative ahead of the Grand Final 🏉🏆
getoffmychest.com.au
Woodside, Get Off My Chest
Woodside’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.
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France Culture @franceculture.fr · 19/09/2026
L’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
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"The first derivative is speed; the second is the rate of change. And here lies the exponential condition for the system’s sustainability: for projected valuation, the second derivative must not turn negative. Yet, in the real economic world, sustained exponential growth does not exist."
newleftreview.org
Frédéric Lordon, Warning Signs — Sidecar
On the economics of AI.
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
cf. for Deleuze, C17th still life painting recurs in C20th all-over painting 🎨
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
13yrs ago - But still, wow.
reuters.com
Man shot in Russia in argument over Kant
An argument over the theories of 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant ended in a man being shot in a grocery store in southern Russia.
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wonder what such a machine might do for higher learning (asking for a friend) 🤔
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
... for a while there it certainly seemed that, ahem, almost everyone was working on fruit-flies
nature.com
Fruit-fly paper has 1,000 authors - Nature
Genomics paper with an unusually high number of authors sets researchers buzzing on social media.
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Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) @aussoccontiphil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Are 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.au
ASCP Events
Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A great essay - well supported by its engagement with the inimitable 'Dictionary of Untranslatables' (edited by Barbara Cassin).
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Dalia Nassar @dalianassar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I 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.au
Humboldt - the philosopher who started the ecology movement - ABC listen
The 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...
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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Where does the voice we know as Sappho’s come from? Emily Greenwood on Mary Barnard’s inventive translation, back in print this fall.
yalereview.org
How Mary Barnard Invented the Sappho We Fell In Love With
Emily Greenwood on Mary Barnard, Anne Carson, and how translators have interpreted Sappho.
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
...not my own, I should hasten to add, but one that struck me in
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On 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.org
On Music, Memory, and Damascus
"Music is one of the arts most connected to place, as it is a physical vibration in a space."
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy Pataphysical New Year to all who celebrate 🥳
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As things would have it, I came across this 1957 edition at the second-hand bookshop today #Μοῖραι
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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A friend just sent me a sentence from my translation of Proust's In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, along with Moncrieff's version:
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Intriguing 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.edu
Roman comedy against the subject – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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France Culture @franceculture.fr · 03/09/2026
Posséder, 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
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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.com
I Have A Polysemic Imagination: A Conversation - Notes - e-flux
Jean-Pierre Gorin in conversation on cinema imagination
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
...somehow the satire only bites harder 😕
abc.net.au
Report finds rock art damage more extensive than thought
The Murujuga Rock Art monitoring program finds pollutants from previous industrial activity have damaged a larger area of ancient rock art on the Burrup Peninsula than previously thought.
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's the future we've been threatened (via @mcsweeneys.net)
mcsweeneys.net
Our 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...
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
No surprise to read that Philippa Nikulinsky "spent decades working with scientists as a botanical illustrator" - her work is exquisite.
abc.net.au
The female artists who shaped botanical illustration in Australia
Female botanical illustrators have translated the science of our landscapes for centuries, today the craft is as important as ever.
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I 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 course
The philosophy programme at Dundee University is under threat due to budget cuts - but academics say AI means the subject is more vital than ever
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Best from the West 📸
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Great project!
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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.com
Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For 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, ...
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
...either does this one, from the ever-sharp folk @thejuicemedia.com 🔥
youtu.be
Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
(Chamayou's essay doesn't miss 🎯)
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Radical Philosophy @radical-philosophy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
RP2.21 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
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
(With echoes through to J.M.W Turner and A.N. Whitehead)
bmcr.brynmawr.edu
Timaeus in paradise: metaphors and beauty from Plato to Dante and beyond – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A great project/resource - am looking forward to following and sharing!
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Diotama's 'ladder' as a model for "non-trad ways of thinking about beauty" 🤩 #🪜
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The world started going to shit when governments began defunding humanities and suggesting STEM is all we need to encourage.
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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.org
Fighting the Frackers | Los Angeles Review of Books
D. Graham Burnett discusses the politics of attention in our algorithmic age.
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Amy @amyinvernizzi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Why science needs the humanities more than ever www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Why science needs the humanities more than ever
From AI to biotechnology, today’s scientific breakthroughs raise ethical and social challenges that technical expertise alone cannot solve.
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Blinked recently? ⚡️ There's a chance you haven't seen some new and forthcoming titles 🙈
link.springer.com
Palgrave Perspectives on Process Philosophy
The aim of this series is to provide monographs, edited collections and Palgrave Pivots from both established and early career scholars in Process Philosophy, ...
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Handwriting is to space what the voice is to time. - Susan Stewart, “On Longing”
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Perhaps one of the strongest models of a presumed disjunction between everyday life and art, stream of consciousness and self-con-sciouness, is presented in the invisible social space of reading and writing, a space defined temporally and spatially as outside and above the quotidian. Although reading may give form to time, it does not count in time; it leaves no trace; its product is invisible. The marks in the margins of the page are the marks of writing, not the marks of reading. Since the moment of Augustine's reading silently to him-self, 18 reading has inhabited the scenes of solitude: the attic, the beach, the commuter train, scenes whose profound loneliness arises only because of their proximity to a tumultuous life which remains outside their peripheries. The reader speaks only to the absent writer; the writer speaks only to the absent reader. We cannot "write along" with someone; aside from Colette and Willy in the novel factory, the writer is alone. And whereas reading may assume or even manipulate the speed of thought, writing obeys the speed of the body, the speed of the hand. If thought outdistances writing, the text must become flooded with signification; if writing outdistances thought, we find the convention of the computer poem and by extension, the
"mindless" secretary. Because writing by hand assumes the speed of the body, it is linked to the personal. It is not quite polite to type condolence notes and heartfelt letters to friends or lovers. To sign your name, your mark, is to leave a track like any other track of the body; handwriting is to space what the voice is to time. The moral righteousness of burning one's own letters and diaries is the righteousness of the suicide, not of the avenging murderer. But the record that cannot be burned with the rest is the record that cannot be recorded: the time that cannot count in the diary is the time of writing the diary.
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Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
abc.net.au
Explore an epic story 65,000 years in the making
Dive into Deep Time, an immersive story of the knowledge, art and ingenuity of Australia’s First Nations peoples — told like never before.
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