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Posts by Ben Brewer

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Did you know Heidegger was kind of obsessed with nuclear weapons? New article out in Gatherings has both historical and philosophical research on this weird rabbit hole I’ve been living in the last two years: academia.edu/resource/wor...

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*Hannah Arendt appears on screen* “…then I have just the thing for you! It’s called ‘forgiveness,’ and it’s the redemption from the twin predicaments of the irreversibility of our actions and the unforeseeability of their consequences!”

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Out now: Almost 70 years after the first German edition, Günther Anders' masterpiece ›Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen‹ is finally available in English 👇 upress.umn.edu/978151791265...
Huge thanks to my brilliant colleague Chris – you did a fantastic job!

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added Hung Up to my workout playlist recently and I’ve been hitting PRs left and right. A perfect song

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I've seen people say modern philosophy is mostly bad and others say it is mostly good, and so I bravely chart a third path: most modern philosophy is fine, I guess

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Last year these chuds were boosting Ernst Junger

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Atlanta people: I was lulled into a false sense of security by the fact that the storm has so far been less intense than forecast, and so my dumbass tried to walk down my back steps and immediately ate shit. Be careful out there today

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North American Society for Social Philosophy Committee on Accessibility and Inclusion
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Abstract Writing Workshop
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North American Society for Social Philosophy Committee on Accessibility and Inclusion Invites you to Abstract Writing Workshop February 2nd | 2026 | 3pm EST Use the QR code or the link below to register https://forms.office.com/r/1HC6ZPU2ck

I'm co-hosting a workshop on writing successful conference abstracts! We will share tips on responding to CFPs effectively and examine examples of good and bad abstracts. Register at forms.office.com/r/1HC6ZPU2ck, and please help me share widely with graduate students in philosophy!

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Happy Moira Shearer's 100th birthday!

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I’m not really even this kind of philosopher, but people saying that something “begs the question” when they mean “raises the question” and referring to “points” as “valid”

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What a world huh

Lemon it’s still struggling to be born

What a world huh Lemon it’s still struggling to be born

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The Stanley Cavell bat signal lights up the sky

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I read “look into laser” very literally and I was super confused for a moment

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They’re calling it the “name one Carole King song that isn’t from Tapestry” challenge

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800 Kilo schwere Kugel voller Gin im Bodensee wiedergefunden Sie ist im Jahr 2022 vom Grund des Bodensees verschwunden – eine 800 Kilogramm schwere Kugel voller Gin. Nun wurde sie vom Schiffsbergeverein aus Romanshorn wiedergefunden.

Allgemeines Aufatmen
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Cohen is a Ghost
@skullmandible.bsky.social
when toni collete shows up in a movie it feels like the director is drawing a gun
July 22, 2023 at 9:19 PM

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social when toni collete shows up in a movie it feels like the director is drawing a gun July 22, 2023 at 9:19 PM

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Idk, Barbour is historically “rich guy on the weekend” coded or even “British aristocrat at his country estate” coded.

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On a long enough timeline, all 30 rock jokes are revealed to either be references or prophecies

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“8 beds 1 bath” sounds like a 30 rock cutaway joke about a reality show

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Monstrous fish in Suffolk!
"A most true and marvelous strange wonder" (1568)
described by Timothy Granger.
archive.org/details/bim_...

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Leider kann ich mit Horkheimer nicht helfen, aber die Überlegungen Günther Anders’ über „Apokalypse-Blindheit“ und die Grenzen der menschlichen Vorstellungskraft sind vielleicht auch relevant (sie sind in “Antiquiertheit des Menschen,” und besonders in “Die atomare Drohung” zu finden).

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The best cure for the morning after a department holiday party is to go to the gym. The second best, however, is to read Kant in bed.

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Read this, and fuckin subscribe to Jimmy’s substack you animals substack.com/@jamescrane?...

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Seconding this—you can be fearless with the cut glove!

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Based on the image, what happens is a P2P file sharing platform that crashes your parents’ windows xp

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Outdoor gear for Denker und Dichter!

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When Hubert Dreyfus visited Heidegger he saw a copy of Sartre’s being and nothingness and asked H if he had read it. And Heidegger slapped the book disdainfully and said “How can I even begin with this drivel?” So if that’s what he thought about SARTRE, I’d love to hear his take on Yarvin hahaha

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