I try to do other things, but the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it is rather distracting open.substack.com/pub/wearefre...

Beginning to dig into the philosophy of asylum. First a brief conversation with Agamben #philsky open.substack.com/pub/wearefre...

It’s been a while coming, but I’m beginning to unpack some of my reflections on my time working with people seeking asylum. Sadly, it feels even more necessary than ever. open.substack.com/pub/wearefre...

Happy New Year - and happy new Substack starting today. I hope you enjoy it!
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#philsky If you're interested in Hannah Arendt, or in anarchism, or in the relationship between them, you might want to take a look at this: www.academia.edu/145386934/Co...

One for teachers and academics. How long will it be before assessment has to return to unseen exams, not for ideological reasons but just to get some idea of what students are capable of without AI? Oh yes, and the exam halls will have to be Faraday cages …

We travelled Vienna - Paris last month and loved it. 🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs
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“So, when Earth Day adopts the slogan “our power, our planet”, it’s the “our” I worry about. The planet does not belong to us; we belong to it.”

#climatecrisis #plasticpollution

Really chuffed to have a piece in @paperboatswriters.bsky.social new edition - out today at paperboats.org

Hi @nffn.bsky.social - tried searching for you by name on here and you don’t come up. You might want to rename your account!

Thinking like a Trump (1)

I want three things. 1) Demonstrate my own power over others. 2) I don’t see resisting Russia in Europe as important to my interests, so an end to US involvement in the fighting in Ukraine (peace is optional extra). 3) Access to rare earths.

“One of the salient patterns that emerges when one looks at the past two millennia of human civilisation is that periods of social instability and conflict coincide … with intervals when climate deviates even modestly from normal.”
Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness, p132.
Oh dear.

This is one of the most encouraging things I’ve read in ages www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Was that ‘cacatus maximus’? Sorry I wasn’t listening 😁

If we could get our heads round this, life could be a whole lot better for many people, and our societies would be much better for everyone

Here (super-abbreviated) is what I’ve been thinking about the church and its future. What do you think?

www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Just reading an essay by Ursula le Guin (‘TGAN Again’) in which she points out that ‘a great American’ is always ‘a great American man’ unless otherwise specified. So, if ‘great’ = ‘male’, does ‘Make America Great Again’ really signify ‘Make America Male (dominated) Again’?