Blakey French
@blakeyfrench.bsky.social
(Act III) field philosopher (nascent) #Lostness #Doubt #Degrowth
… slatey immigrant, likely to repost pictures of hares.
ProfilePics: Big beard, straw hat & shades; with a vista of daunting hills.
… slatey immigrant, likely to repost pictures of hares.
ProfilePics: Big beard, straw hat & shades; with a vista of daunting hills.
"The right word to describe this reliance between discrete yet deeply interrelated beings is 'solidarity'." Timothy Morton
January 2, 2026 at 2:27 PM
"The right word to describe this reliance between discrete yet deeply interrelated beings is 'solidarity'." Timothy Morton
"Man issued from the womb of Mother Earth, but he knew it not ... there arose the dreary doctrine that he was not related to the Earth, that she was but a temporary resting place for his scornful feet and that she held nothing for him but temptation to degrade himself." Emma Goldman & Max Baginski
January 1, 2026 at 2:14 PM
"Man issued from the womb of Mother Earth, but he knew it not ... there arose the dreary doctrine that he was not related to the Earth, that she was but a temporary resting place for his scornful feet and that she held nothing for him but temptation to degrade himself." Emma Goldman & Max Baginski
'Three Days of the Condor' is a Xmas movie - trust me on this; just watched, very fine: mubi.com/en/nl/films/...
Three Days of the Condor (1975) | MUBI
When bookish CIA analyst Joe Turner finds his coworkers murdered, he’s lured into a deadly trap and forced to go on the run. Taking stranger Kathy Hale hostage, he eventually gains her trust and toget...
mubi.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
'Three Days of the Condor' is a Xmas movie - trust me on this; just watched, very fine: mubi.com/en/nl/films/...
@tobytram.bsky.social just shared my favourite BSky photo of 2025, with barely hours to go ... this kicks off my mood-board for 2026:
December 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
@tobytram.bsky.social just shared my favourite BSky photo of 2025, with barely hours to go ... this kicks off my mood-board for 2026:
The AI industry is in a 'race' ... to make itself so embedded (in daily life, education and government) that, before it goes bust - it has become too 'big' to fail, and is then bound to be bailed out (a proven business model, since 2008).
December 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The AI industry is in a 'race' ... to make itself so embedded (in daily life, education and government) that, before it goes bust - it has become too 'big' to fail, and is then bound to be bailed out (a proven business model, since 2008).
If in Laon (Aisne, FR); such a pleasure to visit l'Ètoile Noir: www.kropotkine02.org/category/bib...
December 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
If in Laon (Aisne, FR); such a pleasure to visit l'Ètoile Noir: www.kropotkine02.org/category/bib...
A bold, intriguing, thesis: "... le capitalisme débridé a refait sa 'selection' des structures psychiques qui lui conviennent." [Unbridled capitalism has redone its 'selection' of the psychic structures that suit it.] www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2026/01/LORD...
Psychés débridées pour capitalisme déchaîné
En kiosques // par Frédéric Lordon & Sandra Lucbert (janvier 2026)
www.monde-diplomatique.fr
December 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A bold, intriguing, thesis: "... le capitalisme débridé a refait sa 'selection' des structures psychiques qui lui conviennent." [Unbridled capitalism has redone its 'selection' of the psychic structures that suit it.] www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2026/01/LORD...
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Stephen Laub. smile support, 1970
[seasonal mood]
[seasonal mood]
December 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Stephen Laub. smile support, 1970
[seasonal mood]
[seasonal mood]
Reposted by Blakey French
I also love books and often buy books that I don’t read right away. I always end up feeling a bit guilty.
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
December 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I also love books and often buy books that I don’t read right away. I always end up feeling a bit guilty.
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
Low light, long shadows, time and space enough for ambling and musing:
December 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Low light, long shadows, time and space enough for ambling and musing:
Bonnes fêtes a tous!
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Bonnes fêtes a tous!
Amsterdam, can look pretty, I'll give it that:
December 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Amsterdam, can look pretty, I'll give it that:
Credit to the Goethe-Institut, here in Amsterdam, for hosting this searingly honest, sadly essential, event last night - rich and brave contributions from each of the speakers: Dr Nawal Mustafa, Dr Shahin Nasiri & Ghayath Almadhoun; thanks: www.goethe.de/ins/nl/de/ve...
Vortrag, Poesie und Gespräch: Statelessness and Worldlessness - Goethe-Institut Niederlande
Fr., 12.12.2025 – A conversation on Hannah Arendt and the erosion of statehood, human rights, and belonging in the 21st century.
www.goethe.de
December 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Credit to the Goethe-Institut, here in Amsterdam, for hosting this searingly honest, sadly essential, event last night - rich and brave contributions from each of the speakers: Dr Nawal Mustafa, Dr Shahin Nasiri & Ghayath Almadhoun; thanks: www.goethe.de/ins/nl/de/ve...
It's a comfort; just the hope, and the continuing fact, of pocket books on big ideas; this new from @laviedesidees.bsky.social is an exemplary tour-de-Deleuze:
December 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It's a comfort; just the hope, and the continuing fact, of pocket books on big ideas; this new from @laviedesidees.bsky.social is an exemplary tour-de-Deleuze:
"The fact that no one believes that nouns refer to an actual reality means, paradoxically enough, that there is no limit to the numbers of them." Jorge Luis Borges #doubt
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"The fact that no one believes that nouns refer to an actual reality means, paradoxically enough, that there is no limit to the numbers of them." Jorge Luis Borges #doubt
Knitivity; quite reassuring, in such a messed-up England:
December 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Knitivity; quite reassuring, in such a messed-up England:
Urban windmills, why not?
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Urban windmills, why not?
First proper overnight frost; shifting back to older ways:
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM
First proper overnight frost; shifting back to older ways:
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Keys found embedded in jam sandwich. Apologies.
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Keys found embedded in jam sandwich. Apologies.
'With the pace of change accelerating by the year, the world appeared ever less God-like ... ever less eternal, impervious, intractable. It assumed instead an ever more human form, becoming more in 'man's image' - protean, fickle and flickering, whimsical and full of surprise.' Zygmunt Bauman
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
'With the pace of change accelerating by the year, the world appeared ever less God-like ... ever less eternal, impervious, intractable. It assumed instead an ever more human form, becoming more in 'man's image' - protean, fickle and flickering, whimsical and full of surprise.' Zygmunt Bauman
Oh my, the Lage Lund Quartet ... at the Bimhuis; fits & starts & leaps & bounds; most excellent - special dues to Danny Grissett on piano:
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Oh my, the Lage Lund Quartet ... at the Bimhuis; fits & starts & leaps & bounds; most excellent - special dues to Danny Grissett on piano:
Left behind, not forgotten #1 - Jimmy Raney "Guitaristic" (1963 but unissued till 1974); just a blinder, unreal chops.
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Left behind, not forgotten #1 - Jimmy Raney "Guitaristic" (1963 but unissued till 1974); just a blinder, unreal chops.
What he said👇; moved to tears at times, cutting edge: @maryhalvorson.bsky.social
Mary Halvorson sextet! #BIMhuis
Geweldig concert weer van een van de absolute topbands in de jazz op dit moment.
Mary Halvorson gitaar, Jonathan Finlayson trompet, Jacob Garchik trombone, Patricia Brennan vibrafoon, Nick Dunston bas, Tomas Fujiwara drums
Special guest Ketija Ringa Karahona fluit
Geweldig concert weer van een van de absolute topbands in de jazz op dit moment.
Mary Halvorson gitaar, Jonathan Finlayson trompet, Jacob Garchik trombone, Patricia Brennan vibrafoon, Nick Dunston bas, Tomas Fujiwara drums
Special guest Ketija Ringa Karahona fluit
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
What he said👇; moved to tears at times, cutting edge: @maryhalvorson.bsky.social
"... it is not, after all, really a question about whether you can know the unknown, arrive in it, but how to go about looking for it, how to travel." Rebecca Solnit #lostness
November 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"... it is not, after all, really a question about whether you can know the unknown, arrive in it, but how to go about looking for it, how to travel." Rebecca Solnit #lostness
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"Perhaps the role of the philosopher, the role of philosophy at present, is not to be a theoretician of totality, but the diagnostician, if you will allow me to use this word, the diagnostician of today."
― Michel Foucault
#BookSky Raymond Aron & Michel Foucault, Dialogue.
― Michel Foucault
#BookSky Raymond Aron & Michel Foucault, Dialogue.
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
"Perhaps the role of the philosopher, the role of philosophy at present, is not to be a theoretician of totality, but the diagnostician, if you will allow me to use this word, the diagnostician of today."
― Michel Foucault
#BookSky Raymond Aron & Michel Foucault, Dialogue.
― Michel Foucault
#BookSky Raymond Aron & Michel Foucault, Dialogue.