Kenneth Novis
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3rd year Philosophy DPhil @ox.ac.uk | Researching Spinoza, Bayle and the French Enlightenment | also French and Italian Marxism (Weil, Althusser, Deleuze and Operaismo) | Ultraleftist Metalhead | 26 | he/him
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Kenneth Novis
@saditious.bsky.social
· Aug 4
Boycott Watkins
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this is today at 5 pm (CET) - join us!
Next #DescartesLaboratory⤵️
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
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November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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I’m interested in thinking more about how sci-fi challenges anthropocentrism in philosophy. Kant is sometimes seen as an anthropocentric philosopher. But he also thinks that there could be (or even are) morally superior extraterrestrial agents. Does this matter at all for his anthropocentrism?
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I’m interested in thinking more about how sci-fi challenges anthropocentrism in philosophy. Kant is sometimes seen as an anthropocentric philosopher. But he also thinks that there could be (or even are) morally superior extraterrestrial agents. Does this matter at all for his anthropocentrism?
One of my friends got some photos of me during my presentation in Cambridge yesterday
November 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
One of my friends got some photos of me during my presentation in Cambridge yesterday
Can't believe this is finally out!!!
Out now in English, request a copy for your library (and buy the paperback when it comes out next year)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-althuss...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-althuss...
Althusser and Spinoza
Althusser and Spinoza
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Can't believe this is finally out!!!
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Out now in English, request a copy for your library (and buy the paperback when it comes out next year)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-althuss...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-althuss...
Althusser and Spinoza
Althusser and Spinoza
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Out now in English, request a copy for your library (and buy the paperback when it comes out next year)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-althuss...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-althuss...
One of my coolest possessions -
November 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
One of my coolest possessions -
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This is a lie. Trans people are not a "risk" to cis women.
The only women put at risk by the continued pursuit of bigotry are trans women.
That's what they want. And when they've got you to accept that persecution, they'll come for abortion, & equal marriage, & contraception, & divorce...
The only women put at risk by the continued pursuit of bigotry are trans women.
That's what they want. And when they've got you to accept that persecution, they'll come for abortion, & equal marriage, & contraception, & divorce...
Claire Coutinho writing in the Times today that "Every day of delay over the guidance puts women at risk"
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is a lie. Trans people are not a "risk" to cis women.
The only women put at risk by the continued pursuit of bigotry are trans women.
That's what they want. And when they've got you to accept that persecution, they'll come for abortion, & equal marriage, & contraception, & divorce...
The only women put at risk by the continued pursuit of bigotry are trans women.
That's what they want. And when they've got you to accept that persecution, they'll come for abortion, & equal marriage, & contraception, & divorce...
I've been asked to tutor a visiting student to teach them Aquinas' philosophy for 4 weeks. I'm really struggling to write this syllabus, it either feels like I'm assigning too much or too little from the Summa each week.
November 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I've been asked to tutor a visiting student to teach them Aquinas' philosophy for 4 weeks. I'm really struggling to write this syllabus, it either feels like I'm assigning too much or too little from the Summa each week.
I'm giving a talk next Wednesday at the University of Oxford's Philosophy DPhil Seminar, titled 'Spinoza and the Politics of Atheism.' Anyone in the city, feel free to come along!
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I'm giving a talk next Wednesday at the University of Oxford's Philosophy DPhil Seminar, titled 'Spinoza and the Politics of Atheism.' Anyone in the city, feel free to come along!
I've just about got all of the materials ready for my presentation at the Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period. I'll be delivering my talk on November 3rd at 17:00GMT. It'd be great to see some friends there!
October 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I've just about got all of the materials ready for my presentation at the Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period. I'll be delivering my talk on November 3rd at 17:00GMT. It'd be great to see some friends there!
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It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
This looks really good! I've struggled a lot with the reactionary political attitudes that Spinoza explicitly expresses, but this book seems to suggest a reading of him that exorcises those attitudes.
October 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This looks really good! I've struggled a lot with the reactionary political attitudes that Spinoza explicitly expresses, but this book seems to suggest a reading of him that exorcises those attitudes.
I've now got all of my materials submitted for the exam Oxford has us do for admission into the third year of the doctoral programme - hopefully this all doesn't go as badly as the second year exam did for me
October 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I've now got all of my materials submitted for the exam Oxford has us do for admission into the third year of the doctoral programme - hopefully this all doesn't go as badly as the second year exam did for me
When people are gossiping, it's interesting that if you point out they are doing so, they will always reply that what they are not doing is gossiping. I suppose that gossip is seen uncontroversially as a bad thing, and nobody wants to admit that they are doing something wrong.
October 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
When people are gossiping, it's interesting that if you point out they are doing so, they will always reply that what they are not doing is gossiping. I suppose that gossip is seen uncontroversially as a bad thing, and nobody wants to admit that they are doing something wrong.
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A non-negligible reason why the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have retained their collegiate system has to be so that they can justify extorting students by charging us double fees.
October 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A non-negligible reason why the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have retained their collegiate system has to be so that they can justify extorting students by charging us double fees.
I work primarily on Spinoza, but I've somehow managed to get a bunch of pieces on Simone Weil published in books and such. So how do I get my name into Spinoza books instead!?
October 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I work primarily on Spinoza, but I've somehow managed to get a bunch of pieces on Simone Weil published in books and such. So how do I get my name into Spinoza books instead!?
Why is it that there is so little written on Spinoza and Montesquieu?
October 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Why is it that there is so little written on Spinoza and Montesquieu?
How much would it cost nowadays to become an anchorite? Because ngl it sounds like a pretty nice life.
October 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
How much would it cost nowadays to become an anchorite? Because ngl it sounds like a pretty nice life.
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After Savagery
Join Hamid Dabashi for a conversation with Muhannad Ayyash about Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization.
Monday, October 20th at 4:30pm ET
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Join Hamid Dabashi for a conversation with Muhannad Ayyash about Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization.
Monday, October 20th at 4:30pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
After Savagery
Join Hamid Dabashi for a conversation with Muhannad Ayyash about Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization.
Monday, October 20th at 4:30pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join Hamid Dabashi for a conversation with Muhannad Ayyash about Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization.
Monday, October 20th at 4:30pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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Not to be missed! Honoured to be the moderator for what will be a remarkable conversation @oxfordinterfaith.bsky.social #TheaGomelauri #OxfordInterfaithForum
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Religicide: Confronting the Roots of Anti-Religious Violence - Oxford Interfaith Forum | Interfaith Academia
20 October, 2025 We are deeply honoured to welcome Author Dr Georgette Bennett, Founder and …
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October 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Not to be missed! Honoured to be the moderator for what will be a remarkable conversation @oxfordinterfaith.bsky.social #TheaGomelauri #OxfordInterfaithForum
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Are you interested in affordances? What about Iris Marion Young's "Throwing Like a Girl"? What about autonomy? I'm super happy to have this paper accepted by Ergo. It's sort of the centre piece in the new direction my work is headed
philpapers.org/rec/VELERA-2
philpapers.org/rec/VELERA-2
Muhammad Velji, Extended Relational Autonomy: Affordances, the Meso-Level and the Internalist-Externalist Debate - PhilPapers
Catriona Mackenzie in a recent essay, Relational Equality and the Debate Between Externalists and Internalist Theories of Relational Autonomy (2022), takes a look back at an intractable debate within ...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Are you interested in affordances? What about Iris Marion Young's "Throwing Like a Girl"? What about autonomy? I'm super happy to have this paper accepted by Ergo. It's sort of the centre piece in the new direction my work is headed
philpapers.org/rec/VELERA-2
philpapers.org/rec/VELERA-2
I find it hard not to admire how committed Bayle was to annoying people and provoking controversy at every point in his life
October 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I find it hard not to admire how committed Bayle was to annoying people and provoking controversy at every point in his life