Barry Stocker 🇺🇦🇹🇼
@barrystocker.bsky.social
I back Ukraine & Taiwan. British 🇬🇧 philosopher based in Istanbul🇹🇷, working at universities here for many years. Author of the monographs: *Derrida on Deconstruction (Routledge)*, *Kierkegaard on Politics* (Palgrave), Philosophy of the Novel* (Palgra
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This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this.
Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
January 26, 2026 at 5:22 AM
This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this.
Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
The waiting is over! *Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking* (eds Michaela Fišerovà & Jakub Mácha) is now available in hard copy and e-book formats from Routledge. It includes my chapter ‘Foucault’s Baroque’
January 26, 2026 at 11:47 AM
The waiting is over! *Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking* (eds Michaela Fišerovà & Jakub Mácha) is now available in hard copy and e-book formats from Routledge. It includes my chapter ‘Foucault’s Baroque’
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If that's what they're willing to do in public, while being filmed, what do they do behind closed doors?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Video shows moments around fatal shooting in Minneapolis
Bystander footage has captured the seconds before the killing of 37-year-old Alex Pretti.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 10:01 AM
If that's what they're willing to do in public, while being filmed, what do they do behind closed doors?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Michael Rosen (Harvard) Why Does Philosophy Have a History? Superb, deeply informed, talk for @triphilosophy.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmxM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmxM...
Why Does Philosophy Have a History?, Michael Rosen
YouTube video by The Royal Institute of Philosophy
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Michael Rosen (Harvard) Why Does Philosophy Have a History? Superb, deeply informed, talk for @triphilosophy.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmxM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmxM...
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It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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Towards A Complete Libertarianism
Synthesizing Natural Rights and Contractualism
by Kevin Vallier
[click here for a PDF]
Towards A Complete Libertarianism
Synthesizing Natural Rights and Contractualism
by Kevin Vallier
[click here for a PDF]
Towards A Complete Libertarianism
Synthesizing Natural Rights and Contractualism by Kevin Vallier [click here for a PDF] Libertarian political philosophy in the analytic tradition nears the half-century mark. Libertarian theorists …
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January 22, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Towards A Complete Libertarianism
Synthesizing Natural Rights and Contractualism
by Kevin Vallier
[click here for a PDF]
Towards A Complete Libertarianism
Synthesizing Natural Rights and Contractualism
by Kevin Vallier
[click here for a PDF]
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Nice discussion of this quote here:
January 20, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Nice discussion of this quote here:
It’s happened: the USA is now in an economic war with 10 European countries to force the annexation of Greenland. Stand strong Europe. Stand strong.
January 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM
It’s happened: the USA is now in an economic war with 10 European countries to force the annexation of Greenland. Stand strong Europe. Stand strong.
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Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen:
"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."
"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.
"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."
"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.
January 13, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen:
"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."
"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.
"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."
"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.
Greenland and Denmark stand together against US bullying and intimidation
January 13, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Greenland and Denmark stand together against US bullying and intimidation
Views of the Bosphorus from Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) University, south campus, today
January 13, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Views of the Bosphorus from Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) University, south campus, today
Philosophical humour! Parody of the trolley problem! Or is it? Maybe a paper had been published on this or will be soon 🤨
January 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Philosophical humour! Parody of the trolley problem! Or is it? Maybe a paper had been published on this or will be soon 🤨
observer.co.uk/news/interna... Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan ‘We Canadians are struggling to comprehend the bully next door, Donald Trump’s neo-imperialist ambitions have put our long history of mutuality on the line. Now we talk about how to deal with an invasion’
We Canadians are struggling to comprehend the bully next ...
Donald Trump’s neo-imperialist ambitions have put our long history of mutuality on the line. Now we talk about how to deal with an invasion, and even a nuclear deterrent
observer.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 11:07 AM
observer.co.uk/news/interna... Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan ‘We Canadians are struggling to comprehend the bully next door, Donald Trump’s neo-imperialist ambitions have put our long history of mutuality on the line. Now we talk about how to deal with an invasion’
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If the ICE agent had followed DHS policy and training (by not going in front of the vehicle), would Renee Nicole Good be alive right now?
January 10, 2026 at 11:01 PM
If the ICE agent had followed DHS policy and training (by not going in front of the vehicle), would Renee Nicole Good be alive right now?
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
Exciting news! I have been cited! And quoted! Yes I do get unreasonably excited about this, anyway Nikolai Milkov quotes from my Introduction to the edited volume *Post/Analytic Tractatus* (2004) in his very recent monograph *Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy* (Palgrave 2026)
January 10, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Exciting news! I have been cited! And quoted! Yes I do get unreasonably excited about this, anyway Nikolai Milkov quotes from my Introduction to the edited volume *Post/Analytic Tractatus* (2004) in his very recent monograph *Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy* (Palgrave 2026)
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So an officer has his phone out recording obviously distracted, shoots a woman and calls her a “f’ing Bitch” and they think that HELPS the case?!?
January 9, 2026 at 8:20 PM
So an officer has his phone out recording obviously distracted, shoots a woman and calls her a “f’ing Bitch” and they think that HELPS the case?!?
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BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
1/2 My latest publication, just a chapter in a pdf book of conference proceedings, but I enjoy them all! ‘Ukraine and Russia: A New Paradigm for International Conflict’ in Proceedings of the 8th International Blue Black Sea Congress, Marmara University, 2025.
January 4, 2026 at 6:17 PM
1/2 My latest publication, just a chapter in a pdf book of conference proceedings, but I enjoy them all! ‘Ukraine and Russia: A New Paradigm for International Conflict’ in Proceedings of the 8th International Blue Black Sea Congress, Marmara University, 2025.
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It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
January 4, 2026 at 5:04 AM
It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.