Always a pleasure to see and (hear!) these beauties as I arrive on campus. Clearly there's quite a lot to screech-about at breakfast time.

or gently point out that philosophy "is useful… for turning stupidity into something shameful"

Midday, midweek, midwinter charity shop find #$2

Spotted as leaving campus. Semester has ended 😊

cf. Michel Serres

The best weekends always seem to coincide with unexpected finds at second-hand bookshops 😊

cf. Annas' note on C19th accounts of consciousness as simping over (then new) technologies 🚂 "Our current models for the mind are based on computers, and these will doubtless sound as bizarre to our successors as the model of steam propulsion does to us”

...unfettered fun surely. (And quite unlike Leibniz's subjection of the syllogism to a calculus which, according to Hegel, is just "the same as calculating how many combinations of letters an alphabet allows, how many throws are possible in a game of dice, how many plays with an ombre card, etc"). 🫠

🇺🇸 conceit of initialising (only) middle name 🇬🇧 conceit of initialising (all) given names

Looking out toward the Southern Ocean 🌊

Was there a need to wear this t-shirt to campus open day today? Yes (it was modal). #àlamode

Is this bit down to incompetence or cruel indifference? 🤔😕

Best from the West 😎

Unlike those of today, data infrastructures of the late 14th Century were often characterised by their honesty and humility 😉 #DevOps #IaC #AI #δεδομένα

Australian university staff watching #4corners tonight

$6.60 for a copy of the 1958 translation (from the same shop)

Something for the bedside table from the second-hand bookshop down the road. 📚 👹 #sweetdreams

There's no time to explain - hop on the two-stroke tandem! (Yes, even with the flat tyres and half-missing handlebar)

Some notice it so much that they write about it 😏

Saturday morning charity shop find 🤩 #fivebucks

Live footage of me finalising things ahead of the start of semester

Still thinking of last night's sunset

electronic versions are great, but hard copies are always a treat (even if they take a while longer to arrive). 📕 Either way (or both ways!) - ask your library to get a copy!

Every semester, when checking previously stable URLs for assigned readings, I suspect the etymology of 'permalink' to be utterly spurious

This one has been a great summer read. 🌞 ⛱️ Lucid and engaging (and somehow buoyed by the gravitas of its scholarship) - a thoroughgoing immersion in a long history, as well as some deft engagements with a range of more recent thinkers such as Luce Irigaray, Adriana Cavarero, and Brooke Holmes.

(Gilles Deleuze, "The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque")

3km in cloudless gentle late afternoon sunshine today, it was glorious 🏊‍♂️