Tim Flanagan
@timflanagan.bsky.social
Lecturer in Humanities (διεντέρευμα)
Murdoch University
📖 "Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least Distances"
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-66398-8
https://philpeople.org/profiles/tim-flanagan
Murdoch University
📖 "Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least Distances"
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-66398-8
https://philpeople.org/profiles/tim-flanagan
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Tim Flanagan
@timflanagan.bsky.social
· Jun 30
“A Most Thrilling Geometry” (Predicative Space in Proust) | 16 | The R
Working out from the role of place names in Proust, this essay considers the sense in which certain encounters with language signal an intrinsic relation to
doi.org
My chapter from a recent collection
Half the price, but all the surfeit!
January 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Half the price, but all the surfeit!
"When the Spanish Jesuit J.B. Villalpando wanted to describe ichnography... he characterised it not as an imprint formed by pressure upon the ground but rather a shadow cast by parallel rays of light passing vertically through a diaphanous structure"
Tracing Shadows: A Workshop Primer
Here, Mark Dorrian examines the theoretical history of the shadow and its evolving role in architectural drawing. The text acts as a word-and-image primer for the third colloquium event, jointly hoste...
drawingmatter.org
January 7, 2026 at 2:03 PM
"When the Spanish Jesuit J.B. Villalpando wanted to describe ichnography... he characterised it not as an imprint formed by pressure upon the ground but rather a shadow cast by parallel rays of light passing vertically through a diaphanous structure"
A pre-semester reminder
The Score by C Thi Nguyen review – a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life
From Duolingo to GDP, how an obsession with keeping score can subtly undermine human flourishing
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:25 PM
A pre-semester reminder
"The magic effect of Warburg’s visionary method is to bring to light what cannot be remembered or known in words, and to display in images the secret dynamics that sustain image, idea and ideology through time." (via @lrb.co.uk)
Francis Gooding | At the Warburg
A shifting array of hundreds of reproductions showing the art and architecture of two millennia, carefully selected and...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 2:42 AM
"The magic effect of Warburg’s visionary method is to bring to light what cannot be remembered or known in words, and to display in images the secret dynamics that sustain image, idea and ideology through time." (via @lrb.co.uk)
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#VendrediLecture 📚
Trump, Poutine : chacun invente sa novlangue pour supprimer les mots et avec eux, les réalités qu'ils désignent.
Face à cette manipulation, la philosophe et académicienne Barbara Cassin imagine une culture européenne capable de s’affirmer comme un rempart.
👉 urls.fr/Ms9Rnf
Trump, Poutine : chacun invente sa novlangue pour supprimer les mots et avec eux, les réalités qu'ils désignent.
Face à cette manipulation, la philosophe et académicienne Barbara Cassin imagine une culture européenne capable de s’affirmer comme un rempart.
👉 urls.fr/Ms9Rnf
December 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
#VendrediLecture 📚
Trump, Poutine : chacun invente sa novlangue pour supprimer les mots et avec eux, les réalités qu'ils désignent.
Face à cette manipulation, la philosophe et académicienne Barbara Cassin imagine une culture européenne capable de s’affirmer comme un rempart.
👉 urls.fr/Ms9Rnf
Trump, Poutine : chacun invente sa novlangue pour supprimer les mots et avec eux, les réalités qu'ils désignent.
Face à cette manipulation, la philosophe et académicienne Barbara Cassin imagine une culture européenne capable de s’affirmer comme un rempart.
👉 urls.fr/Ms9Rnf
(Cees Nooteboom, in his 'Roads to Santiago', on Francisco de Zurbarán) 🎨 #tenebrism
December 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
(Cees Nooteboom, in his 'Roads to Santiago', on Francisco de Zurbarán) 🎨 #tenebrism
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Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and please complete your mandatory e-learning by 31 December.
December 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and please complete your mandatory e-learning by 31 December.
Since it's a tense time of year 🫠
December 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Since it's a tense time of year 🫠
Elusive spectacles hiding in plain sight
Photographer snaps 'unreal' rainbow of colours of WA salt lakes
For photographer Scott Jon McCook, seeing the unique salt lakes of WA's Wheatbelt from the air was so captivating it started a five-year passion project.
www.abc.net.au
December 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Elusive spectacles hiding in plain sight
A history as long as it is vast
Nick Richardson · Puffing on the Coals: Alchemical Art
Chemical reactions reflect human dramas, which reflect celestial movements, which reflect the mind of the divine. The...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A history as long as it is vast
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In Montaigne’s French, essays are not yet 'essays' but assays – trials, tests, experiments. Remove belief, whether in philosophy or religion, and what remains?
Essaying Montaigne | David Wootton
engelsbergideas.com/essays/essay...
Essaying Montaigne | David Wootton
engelsbergideas.com/essays/essay...
Essaying Montaigne
In Montaigne’s French, essays are not yet 'essays' but assays – trials, tests, experiments. Remove belief, whether in philosophy or religion, and what remains?
engelsbergideas.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
In Montaigne’s French, essays are not yet 'essays' but assays – trials, tests, experiments. Remove belief, whether in philosophy or religion, and what remains?
Essaying Montaigne | David Wootton
engelsbergideas.com/essays/essay...
Essaying Montaigne | David Wootton
engelsbergideas.com/essays/essay...
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Translating Arabic Polyglossia
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Jonathan Wright discuss Wright's start in literary translation, its divergence from the sort of translation he practiced as a journalist, and his ideas about what he calls Arabic polyglossia.
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Jonathan Wright discuss Wright's start in literary translation, its divergence from the sort of translation he practiced as a journalist, and his ideas about what he calls Arabic polyglossia.
Translating Arabic Polyglossia
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Jonathan Wright discuss Wright's start in literary translation, its divergence from the sort of translation he practiced as a journalist, and his ideas about what he calls Arabic polyglossia.
arablit.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Translating Arabic Polyglossia
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Jonathan Wright discuss Wright's start in literary translation, its divergence from the sort of translation he practiced as a journalist, and his ideas about what he calls Arabic polyglossia.
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Jonathan Wright discuss Wright's start in literary translation, its divergence from the sort of translation he practiced as a journalist, and his ideas about what he calls Arabic polyglossia.
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
New from the BJPS Review of Books:
The Einstein Paradox
– Guido Bacciagaluppi & Elise Crull
Reviewed by Thomas Ryckman
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #phisky #hps
The Einstein Paradox
– Guido Bacciagaluppi & Elise Crull
Reviewed by Thomas Ryckman
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #phisky #hps
Guido Bacciagaluppi and Elise Crull, The Einstein Paradox | BJPS Review of Books
Thomas Ryckman reviews The Einstein Paradox, by Guido Bacciagaluppi and Elise Crull
www.thebsps.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
New from the BJPS Review of Books:
The Einstein Paradox
– Guido Bacciagaluppi & Elise Crull
Reviewed by Thomas Ryckman
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #phisky #hps
The Einstein Paradox
– Guido Bacciagaluppi & Elise Crull
Reviewed by Thomas Ryckman
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #phisky #hps
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
There's a great discussion to be found in the editors' own chapter - on the subtle distinction between Epicurean "prolēpseis" and Stoic "lekta"
Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy
Although scholars regularly refer to the language of concepts and preconceptions when discussing ancient and late ancient texts, there are not many cont...
ndpr.nd.edu
December 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
There's a great discussion to be found in the editors' own chapter - on the subtle distinction between Epicurean "prolēpseis" and Stoic "lekta"
"...a mystical, Platonic quest in which form and style respond to philosophical propositions, and the truth of human experience is to be found in movement, conversation and laughter." #Woolf
Podcast: Jonathan Rée and James Wood · Conversations in Philosophy: 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf
www.lrb.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"...a mystical, Platonic quest in which form and style respond to philosophical propositions, and the truth of human experience is to be found in movement, conversation and laughter." #Woolf
Beautiful giants 😍 🐋
Baby blue whale numbers peak at just the right time off WA coast
Researchers are relieved as baby blue whale numbers increase after a slow start to the migration season.
www.abc.net.au
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Beautiful giants 😍 🐋
Can confirm
Nation Gets Annual Reminder Of The Godless Shit Channel 7 Is Putting On These Days
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
Cricket fans around the country have today received their annual reminder of what exactly Channel 7 does when it is not broadcasting Test cricket, as the netw...
www.betootaadvocate.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Can confirm
As kids, we only ever got our desert if we'd finished all our responsibility 🙃
Responsibility and Desert
When we ask what justifies blaming or punishing someone, a common answer is ‘they deserve it’. How should we understand this idea, and is it...
ndpr.nd.edu
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
As kids, we only ever got our desert if we'd finished all our responsibility 🙃
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Volume I of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy now published!
journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn...
#philsky
journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn...
#philsky
Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy
journal.lib.uoguelph.ca
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Volume I of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy now published!
journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn...
#philsky
journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn...
#philsky
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"My task as a translator is to preserve the poem’s heartbeat and transport it alive across a thousand-year distance." -Shangyang Fang talks with C. Francis Fisher about translating for "Study of Sorrow" : https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/phases-of-the-quotidien-a-conversation-with-shangyang-fang/
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"My task as a translator is to preserve the poem’s heartbeat and transport it alive across a thousand-year distance." -Shangyang Fang talks with C. Francis Fisher about translating for "Study of Sorrow" : https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/phases-of-the-quotidien-a-conversation-with-shangyang-fang/
At once so subtle and so powerful
Creating New Tongues: On Language as Adaptation and Resistance
Czesław Miłosz wrote, “Language is the only homeland.” I didn’t understand that sentence when I first read it. I was too busy trying to speak correctly—in English, in Croatian, in a blend that neve…
lithub.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
At once so subtle and so powerful
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Embarkation of Queen of Sheba, 1648, by Claude Lorrain, French Baroque artist known for ideal landscapes inspired by Roman campagna, and seaports suffused with golden light, which influenced work of Constable & Turner; died #OTD 1682.
National Gallery London
National Gallery London
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Embarkation of Queen of Sheba, 1648, by Claude Lorrain, French Baroque artist known for ideal landscapes inspired by Roman campagna, and seaports suffused with golden light, which influenced work of Constable & Turner; died #OTD 1682.
National Gallery London
National Gallery London
Great day for it 🏏
November 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Great day for it 🏏
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Souleymane Bachir Diagne, le philosophe qui a l’art de faire dialoguer les cultures
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, le philosophe qui a l’art de faire dialoguer les cultures
Dans son dernier ouvrage, le philosophe sénégalais, partisan d’un « universel » respectueux des civilisations non occidentales, réfléchit au traitement que le Louvre doit réserver aux œuvres d’art volées durant la colonisation.
www.nouvelobs.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, le philosophe qui a l’art de faire dialoguer les cultures