A book about JS Bach. Who doesn’t want to read about JS Bach? This shower of philistines, it turns out.

When you donate something to the local little free library and weeks later no one has taken it…

Giles was so generous with his time and so helpful when it came to explaining to journalists very clearly and with quotable precision exactly how a wrong un landlord was being a wrong un. But mostly I just remember thinking he was a really, really kind human who cared about the state of others.

Important cultural update: I went to the Hepworth Wakefield today, and it is _great_. Full of beautiful things. And it’s in Yorkshire.

“Why is there something rather than nothing?”

> the emperor is at war with the pope

what century is it

No, they went a few years back.

I can get effing matcha anywhere, anytime, or ghastly confections with pistachios where they don’t belong. Because capitalism. But I can’t get Gentlemen’s Relish or eat it on Bath Olivers. Because capitalism. So much for the long tail.

Michelin-starred chefs fight to save Gentleman’s Relish Restaurateurs say maker should put Patum Peperium back on sale – or release the secret recipe

I am wroth. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f3b2cea...

Picture of the cover of my book No Place Like Home with a voucher for 30% off. The Voucher number is AUFLY30 to use at global.oup.com/academic

OUP tells me I should share this. And publicise my book. So here it goes. Please read my book. It has a pretty cover. It's cheap (for an academic book) and you can have this discount! Also please review it, somewhere fancy if possible!

An informed, important reading of the landscape from the Chair of the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, intended to stop government from 'sleepwalking into technology serfdom' and to 'stop the techlash leading us to techxit'.

Helpful thread on friction between 🇰🇷 and 🇮🇱

I have been examining the Helen DeWitt prize matter, and my conclusion is that the best thing to do is give authors money by buying their books, and not to depend on committees to transfer cash on our behalf. #totheshops

(actuall, they were cousins by marriage).

popped out to get some more cork and got dragged into it, maybe.

Emily Herring’s study of Henri Bergson, Herald of a Restless World.

This is very good. Amongst other fascinating details, I learned that Marcel Proust was Henri Bergson’s best man.

Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond | Home Adrian Blau is Professor of Politics at King’s College London. His research interests include the history of political thought and other issues in political theory/philosophy, including corruption, democracy and rationality.

We've published a free e-book celebrating the 50th anniversary of Quentin Skinner's seminal essay 'Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas' including his own reflections on the contributions
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I’m in love with modern moonlight, that helps too.

This was a fun exercise. For the non-philosophers, here's a thread briefly describing the ridiculous views that we philosophers are pretty sure we could find seven experts to agree to.

If you read one of them and think "What?!? I must be misunderstanding" you probably aren't.

If you want to destroy AI, every academic traveler just needs create an AI agent designed to get you your travel reimbursement come what may, and it will go up against the procurement department’s AI agent set on denying you, and the two will fight in endless epicycles until the cloud melts down.

Album cover of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ live double LP Nocturne.

This is the greatest LP ever made, I will not be taking questions at this time.

Studying ‘pataphysics.

I went out to the shops, and the centre of town was full of buskers, singing popular tunes melismatically. So I came home and listened to singers who only want to sound like themselves.

Spring bookpile (2) - “non-professional“

Spring bookpile (1) - “professional“

Proper cricket has returned. #propercricket

The logic that wanting something hard enough makes it so was evident in his approach to Art. 50 negotiation too.

“To be fair”. When did everyone start saying this at the beginning of every other sentence? I blame John Rawls.
To be fair, I end every other sentence, I blame John Rawls.

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100% Lento. 🎧

I am large, I contain multitudes of people of the same name.