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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Rosean Futures … Thoughts and recollections on the late Gillian Rose, philosopher.

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AAUP–Penn @aaup-penn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Inside the Inn at Penn, Trustees are making decisions none of us will ever have a say in. Out here, many of the workers whose research makes Penn a university are reading out their letter calling on Penn to respect their voice and let @rapup-uaw.bsky.social vote for their union

Long line of RAPUP-UAW members marching outside the trustees’ meeting

Many RAPUP members holding a banner and union signs out on the street

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Rosean Futures … Thoughts and recollections on the late Gillian Rose, philosopher.

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Chiara Russo Krauss @russokrauss.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I'm giving a second chance to Bluesky. Give me a follow if you're part of former philosophy-Twitter and Il follow you back. Please repost this message to help me reach more of you.

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Here learning from others. Posts mostly about books, and interesting ideas. And football (both kinds). Barely survived 2016-2020. Will try again.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 05/11/2024

‘We start life so full of life, with so much in us, so much more than we can ever comprehend. Then life itself knocks it out of us, and philosophy begins.’ In the latest issue, Jenny Turner reflects on the life and work of her former teacher, Gillian Rose: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Jenny Turner · What else actually is there? On Gillian Rose

Love’s Work is the ‘existential drama’ of a postwar Jewish British woman philosopher, born in London in 1947, who...

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Jenny Turner's essay on Gillian Rose is excellent. In 1995 I had the somewhat awkward task of 'reviewing' Love's Work for The New Statesman. I still don't quite follow the thinking about the sources of 'power' in her work, esp. late on; glad the early lectures are now published.

Old review of a book -- apologies, on Mastodon I could give you the while text of it.

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Wife: “this is not dystopia. Yet”

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · 04/08/2024

Building some critical mass on here. #mufc

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

#1 in series of scholarly acknowledgements: “To my colleagues who waded through the text and offered encouragement and criticism, I offer compassion and gratitude. There can be few gestures more friendly than reading a person’s commentary on Hegel.” #Hegel does this to/for you

“To my colleagues who waded through the text and offered encouragement and criticism, I offer compassion and gratitude. There can be few gestures more friendly than reading a person’s commentary on Hegel.”

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

I wonder if Hegel will be making an appearance in the Napoleon movie … 🤔

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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

For those in #London: Samir Gandesha will deliver The 4th Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture, Thursday, 19th October, at 6pm. "Identity Politics: Dialectics of Liberation or Paradox of Empowerment?" More details: www.kingston.ac.uk/events/item/... #GillianRose #CriticalTheory

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