👽 🐖 Graham Borland 🐗 🗻
@jocularfowl.bsky.social
𓁟 awakening is a nightmare which I am trying to historicise 𓁟 phd-ing on modernism, ‘mysticism’, & secularity @ cambridge 𓁟 Woolf, H.D., MacDiarmid, Lawrence 𓁟 thinking 💭 about jazz 🎷every day 🌞 𓁟
Incredible conversations about #Vwoolf2025 and religion happening this year! including a panel on Sunday (feat. one annoying Irish guy), and a fabulous roundtable on the upcoming Edinburgh UP #Woolf2025 & Religion Handbook.
Really exciting stuff!!!
Really exciting stuff!!!
July 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Incredible conversations about #Vwoolf2025 and religion happening this year! including a panel on Sunday (feat. one annoying Irish guy), and a fabulous roundtable on the upcoming Edinburgh UP #Woolf2025 & Religion Handbook.
Really exciting stuff!!!
Really exciting stuff!!!
reading H.D.’s description of doing solo séance sessions in lonely moments during World War 2, I can’t help but think of the parallels to AI…
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April 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
reading H.D.’s description of doing solo séance sessions in lonely moments during World War 2, I can’t help but think of the parallels to AI…
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A striking outburst in William James’ Principals of Psychology.
After outlining the problems with all available solutions to the mind-brain problem, James suddenly attacks both Hegelian dialectics and Herbert Spencer’s agnostic scientism as “spiritual chlorophorm”.
After outlining the problems with all available solutions to the mind-brain problem, James suddenly attacks both Hegelian dialectics and Herbert Spencer’s agnostic scientism as “spiritual chlorophorm”.
February 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A striking outburst in William James’ Principals of Psychology.
After outlining the problems with all available solutions to the mind-brain problem, James suddenly attacks both Hegelian dialectics and Herbert Spencer’s agnostic scientism as “spiritual chlorophorm”.
After outlining the problems with all available solutions to the mind-brain problem, James suddenly attacks both Hegelian dialectics and Herbert Spencer’s agnostic scientism as “spiritual chlorophorm”.
After spending a year and a half proselytising about Jason Josephson-Storm’s The Myth of Disenchantment, the inevitable has finally happened and a friend requested the copy I’d gotten from the library.
At least transferring over all my annotations gives me a fun chance to read it again.
At least transferring over all my annotations gives me a fun chance to read it again.
February 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
After spending a year and a half proselytising about Jason Josephson-Storm’s The Myth of Disenchantment, the inevitable has finally happened and a friend requested the copy I’d gotten from the library.
At least transferring over all my annotations gives me a fun chance to read it again.
At least transferring over all my annotations gives me a fun chance to read it again.
I’m in one of the “new“ colleges (Hughes Hall, est. 1895) and my supervisor’s in one of the Old Fancy Ones
so I’ve developed a tradition of taking a selfie in Trinity’s Great Court every time I get feedback on a piece of work, to celebrate not being told that I’m actually an evil fraud
so I’ve developed a tradition of taking a selfie in Trinity’s Great Court every time I get feedback on a piece of work, to celebrate not being told that I’m actually an evil fraud
February 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I’m in one of the “new“ colleges (Hughes Hall, est. 1895) and my supervisor’s in one of the Old Fancy Ones
so I’ve developed a tradition of taking a selfie in Trinity’s Great Court every time I get feedback on a piece of work, to celebrate not being told that I’m actually an evil fraud
so I’ve developed a tradition of taking a selfie in Trinity’s Great Court every time I get feedback on a piece of work, to celebrate not being told that I’m actually an evil fraud
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Brendan & I have been having some great conversations with contributors to the first issue of "Metamodern Theory and Praxis." Here’s a fantastic interview with Lene Rachel Andersen about her article on polymodern economics. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBxV...
Polymodern Economics: Lene Rachel Andersen
YouTube video by Brendan Graham Dempsey
www.youtube.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Brendan & I have been having some great conversations with contributors to the first issue of "Metamodern Theory and Praxis." Here’s a fantastic interview with Lene Rachel Andersen about her article on polymodern economics. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBxV...
heyiz me and Virginia Woolf are out at the george for her birthday, u coming out?? we’re in the smoking area out the back x
if you’re coming grab us one of those three jagerbombs for a tenner deals, they’re all for her xxx
if you’re coming grab us one of those three jagerbombs for a tenner deals, they’re all for her xxx
January 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
heyiz me and Virginia Woolf are out at the george for her birthday, u coming out?? we’re in the smoking area out the back x
if you’re coming grab us one of those three jagerbombs for a tenner deals, they’re all for her xxx
if you’re coming grab us one of those three jagerbombs for a tenner deals, they’re all for her xxx
@marika.bsky.social Hi! This is bit of a random question, but: I’ve been thinking a lot about apophasis and desire in relation to your book on failure, and was wondering if you were familiar with William Desmond’s work on metaphysical perplexity?
January 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
@marika.bsky.social Hi! This is bit of a random question, but: I’ve been thinking a lot about apophasis and desire in relation to your book on failure, and was wondering if you were familiar with William Desmond’s work on metaphysical perplexity?
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This is the poem I referred to in the Irish Times piece, which may be unfamiliar to some people here.
January 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
This is the poem I referred to in the Irish Times piece, which may be unfamiliar to some people here.
6:30am and I’m already thinking about the vegan haggis I’m gonna have for dinner 👀 🏴
youtu.be/-rwAU0zNMEk?...
youtu.be/-rwAU0zNMEk?...
Address To A Haggis
YouTube video by Hugh MacDiarmid - Topic
youtu.be
January 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
6:30am and I’m already thinking about the vegan haggis I’m gonna have for dinner 👀 🏴
youtu.be/-rwAU0zNMEk?...
youtu.be/-rwAU0zNMEk?...
@yanotes.bsky.social going by your profile, any chance you’re working on H.D.?
It’s not part of my PhD thesis, but I have a little piece forthcoming on epic and apocalyptic as competing modes in Trilogy and Helen in Egypt.
It’s not part of my PhD thesis, but I have a little piece forthcoming on epic and apocalyptic as competing modes in Trilogy and Helen in Egypt.
January 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
@yanotes.bsky.social going by your profile, any chance you’re working on H.D.?
It’s not part of my PhD thesis, but I have a little piece forthcoming on epic and apocalyptic as competing modes in Trilogy and Helen in Egypt.
It’s not part of my PhD thesis, but I have a little piece forthcoming on epic and apocalyptic as competing modes in Trilogy and Helen in Egypt.
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Hilma af Klint
Tree of Knowledge
Tree of Knowledge
October 10, 2023 at 8:26 PM
Hilma af Klint
Tree of Knowledge
Tree of Knowledge
this #ModWrite, I checked my spam folder only to discover an acceptance for this year’s #Woolf2025 conference in KCL and Sussex!
hours later, I got accepted for an exciting new edited collection with a proposal on D. H. Lawrence and the Unknowable, exploring the links between Spencer & Blavatsky!
hours later, I got accepted for an exciting new edited collection with a proposal on D. H. Lawrence and the Unknowable, exploring the links between Spencer & Blavatsky!
January 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
this #ModWrite, I checked my spam folder only to discover an acceptance for this year’s #Woolf2025 conference in KCL and Sussex!
hours later, I got accepted for an exciting new edited collection with a proposal on D. H. Lawrence and the Unknowable, exploring the links between Spencer & Blavatsky!
hours later, I got accepted for an exciting new edited collection with a proposal on D. H. Lawrence and the Unknowable, exploring the links between Spencer & Blavatsky!
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The incredible diversity of expression of human religiosity continues to evolve 🍅
When I woke up this morning I had a message from my niece in England asking me to go to "cherry tomato bridge", which is apparently a thing on TikTok. So I did. There are tomatoes on it, and ketchup, presumably offerings to the tomato god. 🤷🏼♀️
January 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The incredible diversity of expression of human religiosity continues to evolve 🍅
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I'm in love with this cartoon "The Octopus" from the Moody Bible Institute Monthly, December 1925
January 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I'm in love with this cartoon "The Octopus" from the Moody Bible Institute Monthly, December 1925
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Here’s the cover of my new book. It will come out this spring.
December 10, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Here’s the cover of my new book. It will come out this spring.
today’s serendipitous charity shop find: Simon Critchley’s new book on mysticism!
January 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
today’s serendipitous charity shop find: Simon Critchley’s new book on mysticism!
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Beyond Burns
Currently on the BBC iPlayer: Alistair Heather takes a tour of Scotland’s modern poetry of place – revealing that the Scots language is alive & thriving, from the works of Taylor Dyson in post-industrial Dundee to the sci-fi Orkney poetry of Josie Giles
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Currently on the BBC iPlayer: Alistair Heather takes a tour of Scotland’s modern poetry of place – revealing that the Scots language is alive & thriving, from the works of Taylor Dyson in post-industrial Dundee to the sci-fi Orkney poetry of Josie Giles
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Beyond Burns
Alistair Heather explores the richness of modern Scots language poetry.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Beyond Burns
Currently on the BBC iPlayer: Alistair Heather takes a tour of Scotland’s modern poetry of place – revealing that the Scots language is alive & thriving, from the works of Taylor Dyson in post-industrial Dundee to the sci-fi Orkney poetry of Josie Giles
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Currently on the BBC iPlayer: Alistair Heather takes a tour of Scotland’s modern poetry of place – revealing that the Scots language is alive & thriving, from the works of Taylor Dyson in post-industrial Dundee to the sci-fi Orkney poetry of Josie Giles
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
babe wake up a SHWEP interview with Charles Stang and Jason Josephson-Storm on the role of Theosophical Society on the formation of the discipline of Religious Studies just dropped (!!!!!!!!)
open.spotify.com/episode/3FnK...
open.spotify.com/episode/3FnK...
Charles Stang and Jason Josephson-Storm on Theosophy and the Study of Religions
Oddcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP) · Episode
open.spotify.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
babe wake up a SHWEP interview with Charles Stang and Jason Josephson-Storm on the role of Theosophical Society on the formation of the discipline of Religious Studies just dropped (!!!!!!!!)
open.spotify.com/episode/3FnK...
open.spotify.com/episode/3FnK...
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#DHLAWRENCE ON THE REAL PRACTICE OF #DIVINATION
"If you live by the cosmos, you look in the cosmos for your clue. If you live by a personal god, you pray to him. If you are rational, you think things over. But it all amounts to the same thing in the end.
"If you live by the cosmos, you look in the cosmos for your clue. If you live by a personal god, you pray to him. If you are rational, you think things over. But it all amounts to the same thing in the end.
January 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
#DHLAWRENCE ON THE REAL PRACTICE OF #DIVINATION
"If you live by the cosmos, you look in the cosmos for your clue. If you live by a personal god, you pray to him. If you are rational, you think things over. But it all amounts to the same thing in the end.
"If you live by the cosmos, you look in the cosmos for your clue. If you live by a personal god, you pray to him. If you are rational, you think things over. But it all amounts to the same thing in the end.
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December 20, 2024 at 3:48 PM
this #modwrite I’m posting niche D. H. Lawrence memes while procrastinating for my real task:
polishing off a belated chapter draft before the end of the year, on how Lawrence’s readings of Spencer and Blavatsky dramatise what I dub “the battle for the Unknowable” in late-19th/early-20th c. thought
polishing off a belated chapter draft before the end of the year, on how Lawrence’s readings of Spencer and Blavatsky dramatise what I dub “the battle for the Unknowable” in late-19th/early-20th c. thought
December 30, 2024 at 3:11 PM
this #modwrite I’m posting niche D. H. Lawrence memes while procrastinating for my real task:
polishing off a belated chapter draft before the end of the year, on how Lawrence’s readings of Spencer and Blavatsky dramatise what I dub “the battle for the Unknowable” in late-19th/early-20th c. thought
polishing off a belated chapter draft before the end of the year, on how Lawrence’s readings of Spencer and Blavatsky dramatise what I dub “the battle for the Unknowable” in late-19th/early-20th c. thought
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Here, in time, we are celebrating the eternal birth which God the Father bore and bears unceasingly in eternity, because this same birth is now born in time, in human nature.
- #MeisterEckhart
- #MeisterEckhart
December 23, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Here, in time, we are celebrating the eternal birth which God the Father bore and bears unceasingly in eternity, because this same birth is now born in time, in human nature.
- #MeisterEckhart
- #MeisterEckhart
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Theologian: It’s an ineffable mystery.
Theologian: It’s an ineffable mystery.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Assyriologist: Du[ring] grad sch[ool] I [took?] a position ... [13 lines illegible] ... now.
Assyriologist: Du[ring] grad sch[ool] I [took?] a position ... [13 lines illegible] ... now.
December 22, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Theologian: It’s an ineffable mystery.
Theologian: It’s an ineffable mystery.
collected the indexes to The New Age journal from 1907 to 1922 into a single PDF:
drive.google.com/file/d/1yX9U...
PDFs of the journals themselves available at
modjourn.org/journal/new-...
drive.google.com/file/d/1yX9U...
PDFs of the journals themselves available at
modjourn.org/journal/new-...
The New Age - Complete Index to Volumes 2-30 (1907-1922).pdf
drive.google.com
December 22, 2024 at 4:00 PM
collected the indexes to The New Age journal from 1907 to 1922 into a single PDF:
drive.google.com/file/d/1yX9U...
PDFs of the journals themselves available at
modjourn.org/journal/new-...
drive.google.com/file/d/1yX9U...
PDFs of the journals themselves available at
modjourn.org/journal/new-...