Ade Webb

@adewebb

Philosophy PhD Student (fictionalism, hermeneutics, interpretation theory) & PTA @Exeter University, UK. Tech chairman. Former FTSE 250 board director. AI ethics speaker. Jazz guitarist, cyclist, dad, husband, animal lover. Living (almost) off grid

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Ade Webb@adewebb· 10d

My wife sometimes speaks as if it is wrong to have three different sizes of guitar in the bedroom 🧐

Ade Webb@adewebb· 11d

I’ve never seen #cloudporn like that above the village of Beer, Devon last night. It was like folds in thin paper.

Ade Webb@adewebb· 11d

Coal Train by Hugh Masekela live is one of my Desert Island discs and it’s somehow nice that it isn’t on any streaming service. Only the B side of the 12” single of Lady from 1985. Astonishing track. (I have an mp3 recorded direct from vinyl complete with crackles!)

Shows the rear sleeve of Lady by Hugh Masekela.

Ade Webb@adewebb· 12d

Trevor Horn, Anton Corbijn, Propaganda. The Nine Lives of Doctor Mabuse. Why don’t we return to the age of sleeves like this. #ztt #mabuse #vinyl

Back cover of Propaganda 12” single from 1984. Text: discovery of truth is prevented most effectively,
not by the false
appearance things present and which mislead into
error, not directly by
weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion,
by
prejudice, which as a pseudo a priori stands in the path of truth and is then like a contrary wind driving a ship away from land, so that sail and
rudder labour in vain."
dance and crime: the nine lives of dr. mabuse,
presented, prevented and
presumed by propaganda. i the third and fourth side
1. DAS TESTAMENTS DES MABUSE
2. FEMME FATALE
(The Woman With The Orchid) •
3. (the ninth life of...) •
DR. MABUSE
"every
general truth is
related to
specific truths as gold is to silver, inasmuch as it can be converted into a considerable number of specitic
truths which follow from it in the same way as a gold coin can be converted into small change."
Propaganda: noise and girls come out to play. NOISE: ralf dörper andreas thein. GIRLS : claudia brüchen suzanne freytag. BEHIND THE SCENES: (come out to...): michael mertens.
BEHIND THE
SCREENS: (....play) : michael wertz.
TREVOR HORN produced the nine lives of Dr Mabuse. ANTON
photo-
graphed the group and painted the hand. XL and ZTT made up the sleeve. the first and second side are obtainable as ZAS 2: a seven inch. the first, second, third and fourth side of the story make up number two in zang tuum tumb's bold action series. "Viva muchos anos!" recorded at sarm,
west eleven. dr.
mabuse visual: ZIS 107. help from arthur schopenhauer and maurice ravel, trom a to b; aphorism to bolero, artist to beekeeper.
ZTT Records,
The ZTT Building,
8-10 Basing St. London West Eleven.
Enclose s.a.e. and hope. The next propaganda single is Duel
"not the least of the torments which plague our existence is the constant pressure of time, which never lets us so much as draw
but
pursues us all like a taskmaster with a whip. it ceases to persecute only him it has delivered over to boredom.

Ade Webb@adewebb· 21d

Sellars is a challenging read at the best of times but when he sprinkles his signposting with beauties like this, I can’t help but love him more #philsky

Photo of a page of Wilfrid Sellars writing that starts a paragraph with “Let me return to beating the neighbouring bushes”

Ade Webb@adewebb· 24d

This morning at the eye clinic #pareidolia

Two pareidolic stones. One missing an eye with a startled expression. The other with a closed eye exhibiting some frustration

Ade Webb@adewebb· 24d

The three HappyMakers

A Gibson 335, a Baldwin Virginian and a Yamaha Revstar Pro. All guitars

Ade Webb@adewebb· 29d

A wedge of metaphor #philsky

SELLARS -EMPIRICISM & THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
TOON- MIND AS METAPHOR
Yablo - Aboutness
AUSTIN - HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS
MENTAL FICTIONALISM
Edited by Tamás Demeter, T. Parent, and Adam Toon
RICOEUR
Hermeneutics
Wilfrid Sellars - Science, Perception and Reality
Paul Ricoeur - Interpretation Theory
Paul Ricoeur- The Rule of Metaphor

Ade Webb@adewebb· Jul 7

I’m constantly attributing deep thoughts to my cockapoo that turn out to be variations on ‘SQUIRREL’, ‘FOOD’ or (in the more profound moments) ‘CAPYBARA’ 😃

Ade Webb@adewebb· Jul 4

This is the best cover of a philosophy book ever. Challenge me! @philsky01.bsky.social

Cover of Stephen Yablo’s ‘Aboutness’ - a real bird looks at an arrangement of leaves that is a trompe l’oiel of another bird

Ade Webb@adewebb· May 30

Kajagoogoo’s bass player was underrated. Also, I have a small horse who does a passable Limahl impression

Ade Webb@adewebb· May 22

I’ve waited 19 long years for this moment… #arcticmonkeys #favouriteworstnightmare

Hotel room 505. (Arctic Monkeys track of same name release 2007)

Ade Webb@adewebb· May 15

Much as I favour animatronics and puppetry over CGI in films, sometimes we have to recall the past without rise tinted spectacles #topshambreweryloowallpaper

Picture shows a film character sat astride a hopelessly unrealistic dinosaur

Ade Webb@adewebb· May 4

On a brief and much needed weekend in Mallorca, I cycled this before breakfast this morning. Cap de Formentor lighthouse and back. I’ve lived 43 years with type 1 diabetes. A condition manageable with diet, exercise and now tech. Not one to fear or lose agency over.

Ade Webb@adewebb· Apr 22

The pedant in me raging at the poor spacing adopted by a company apparently invested in anti-nominative determinism. Kern your A and P correctly or get out of town!

A company sign that reads ‘This is the Space’

Ade Webb@adewebb· Apr 5

Worried that as my internet connection is Starlink, my EV charging system is now getting Musk-esque delusions of domination… 🤨

A Myenergi Zappi with a message ‘searching for slaves’

Ade Webb@adewebb· Mar 1

For all the GPS, AI, mapping, monitoring hype, my phone still assumes I’m driving down the railway tracks a few times a week.

Ade Webb@adewebb· Feb 4

If I am ever stressed in future, I’m going to think of Chester the Shiba Inu who I met while skiing last week. The embodiment of calm chill. The face… 🥹

Ade Webb@adewebb· Jan 25

I read Hans Jonas’ 1992 speech ‘Philosophy at the End of the Century’ on the recommendation of my prof. Glad I did. The final pages are prescient for the early 90s. #philsky www.jstor.org/stable/40971...

Perhaps it will not be a matter of planning at all but of improvisations which the widely growing emergency will cause humanity's inventive genius to devise from occasion to occasion. l do not know-and probably no one does. Only the great imperative is overwhelmingly clear to me along with the fact that the human mind alone, the great creator of the danger, can be the potential rescuer from it. No rescuer god will relieve it of this duty, which its position in the order of things places upon it.

From the abyss that is now becoming visible there arise questions we have scarcely ever asked before. Here, in conclusion, a sampling of them. Can nature continue to tolerate the human mind, which it created from its own substance? Must it eliminate the human mind because it finds that mind too destructive of the natural order? Or can the mind ultimately make itself tolerable for nature once it has become aware that it is intolerable? Is peace possible when war was the primeval law governing the relationship between the two? Or was tragedy perhaps the original purpose behind the birth of mind? Is the drama, in spite of its tragic ending, worth performing for the sake of the unfolding of the plot? And how can we make the drama worthwhile in itself, regardless of the ending? How much of its worthwhileness can we sacrifice in order to attempt to avert catastrophe? Is it permissible for us to be inhumane so that humans can continue to live on Earth?
And so on.
All of these are questions of the type Wittgenstein forbade us to ask, since there can be no verifiable answers to them. But they help us to recognize the existing situation, which forces these questions upon us, and to see that it is ourselves to whom these questions are addressed

Ade Webb@adewebb· Jan 23

The quality of handouts in the philosophy department’s leaflet rack has undergone a significant improvement

Ade Webb@adewebb· Jan 22

Bold statement #russianblue

Russian Blue cat sat presumptively on turntable lid

Ade Webb@adewebb· Jan 14

Trying hard to figure how to rescue this very small 747 stuck in a tree on Clapham Common. #smallfaraway

Ade Webb@adewebb· Jan 12

The Axe

Ade Webb@adewebb· Jan 1

Bloody happy to end the year net negative thanks to our #solar. Consumption includes all EV travel, heat pumps, bore hole water pumps, sewage plant and all the usual household electrics. May to September skew the year massively in our favour.

Ade Webb@adewebb· Dec 13

A twin to our American Miniature, Dolly

Ade Webb@adewebb· Dec 10

What are the chances of three philosophers all called Adrian all in the same small room of a dozen people all at the same time? With the wonderful Dr Adrian Currie (Exeter) and Dr Adrian Alsmith (KCL) celebrating a triple A rating

Ade Webb@adewebb· Dec 7

Just a few weeks to go and despite very little sunshine in recent weeks, I think we will comfortably achieve another net negative year for power, heating, hot water and EV. #solar #sunpoweredhouse

Ade Webb@adewebb· Nov 15

Hallowbe’en and gone

Ade Webb@adewebb· Oct 26

Philosopher Richard Rorty nailed this point…

Ade Webb@adewebb· Oct 5

Lyla looking a bit like an Escher staircase amid regal nonchalance moments #russianblue