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
On the importance of Deleuze's 'genetic formalism' for philosophical aesthetics 🎨
ndpr.nd.edu
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
On the importance of Deleuze's 'genetic formalism' for philosophical aesthetics 🎨
Process as method
The Architect of Impossible Physics
More than once, when describing the processes involved in creating these drawings, my listener has responded with two words in particular: loading and channelling. I thought I would and should elabora...
drawingmatter.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Process as method
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
According to Sanskrit philosophers, children don't become proficient language users through individual words, but through sentences. Śālikanātha says that they have to extract the meaning of individual words through their presence or absence in the sentences they hear.
#SanskritPhilosophy
#SanskritPhilosophy
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
According to Sanskrit philosophers, children don't become proficient language users through individual words, but through sentences. Śālikanātha says that they have to extract the meaning of individual words through their presence or absence in the sentences they hear.
#SanskritPhilosophy
#SanskritPhilosophy
Jobs and growth 🤡
Nationals To Resurrect Australian Whaling Industry As Part Of Exciting New Energy Policy — The Shovel
“What we need is a sensible, modern approach to energy policy and hunting whales and killing them for their oil is exactly that"
theshovel.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Jobs and growth 🤡
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
I had a wonderful conversation with Scott Stephens and Walled Aly on Radio Nationa's "The Minefield." Episode -
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Is the experience of beauty slipping away in an age of frictionlessness, speed and AI slop? - ABC listen
The availability of increasingly powerful generative AI tools has radically altered the creative process. Anything that we can imagine can be turned into an image, a video, a text, a song — the proces...
www.abc.net.au
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I had a wonderful conversation with Scott Stephens and Walled Aly on Radio Nationa's "The Minefield." Episode -
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
"Look, maybe it’s just me, but does anyone else find it a little sad to see the glamor of the night before contorted into commerce and alienation by these mimetic simulacra?"
I’m the Owner of This All Day Café in Nineteenth-Century Paris: Can We Stop It with the Fucking Easels?
I opened this café with the best of intentions: to provide a salon par excellence with a focus on good food and live entertainment, a third place t...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Look, maybe it’s just me, but does anyone else find it a little sad to see the glamor of the night before contorted into commerce and alienation by these mimetic simulacra?"
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
Il y a 30 ans disparaissait un philosophe dont les cours ont marqué des générations d’étudiants.
🎙️ Voici 16 leçons inédites de Gilles Deleuze, extraites de plus de 400 heures de cours enregistrées par ses élèves et auditeurs entre 1979 et 1987
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6yG
🎙️ Voici 16 leçons inédites de Gilles Deleuze, extraites de plus de 400 heures de cours enregistrées par ses élèves et auditeurs entre 1979 et 1987
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6yG
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Il y a 30 ans disparaissait un philosophe dont les cours ont marqué des générations d’étudiants.
🎙️ Voici 16 leçons inédites de Gilles Deleuze, extraites de plus de 400 heures de cours enregistrées par ses élèves et auditeurs entre 1979 et 1987
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6yG
🎙️ Voici 16 leçons inédites de Gilles Deleuze, extraites de plus de 400 heures de cours enregistrées par ses élèves et auditeurs entre 1979 et 1987
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6yG
Recognition of an important project 👏
Professor Michael Wear wins inaugural Prime Minister’s prize
When a devastating marine heatwave struck Shark Bay in 2012, it wiped out vast stretches of seagrass meadows in one of the world’s most biodiverse marine environments.
www.murdoch.edu.au
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Recognition of an important project 👏
"Ce n’est guère une exagération que de dire que la chronobiologie humaine et l’astronomie lunaire ne sont, en fin de compte, que les deux principaux aspects de la plus ancienne science du monde."
C’est la Lune qui nous rend humains
1. La science et la religion ont ceci en commun : elles naissent en grande partie de notre attention portée aux cycles de la Lune.
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"Ce n’est guère une exagération que de dire que la chronobiologie humaine et l’astronomie lunaire ne sont, en fin de compte, que les deux principaux aspects de la plus ancienne science du monde."
A spring stroll in the hills 🤩
November 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
A spring stroll in the hills 🤩
Fascinating work, both empirically & theoretically:
"Evans thinks the Chomskyans are looking through the wrong end of the telescope, and that what defines language is its staggering diversity – the vast span of 'engineering solutions' that evolution has found to the problem of human communication"
"Evans thinks the Chomskyans are looking through the wrong end of the telescope, and that what defines language is its staggering diversity – the vast span of 'engineering solutions' that evolution has found to the problem of human communication"
Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented lang...
Nicholas Evans has spent decades trying to decipher the undocumented tongues of Papua New Guinea and Australia. His work has redefined the way we think a...
observer.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Fascinating work, both empirically & theoretically:
"Evans thinks the Chomskyans are looking through the wrong end of the telescope, and that what defines language is its staggering diversity – the vast span of 'engineering solutions' that evolution has found to the problem of human communication"
"Evans thinks the Chomskyans are looking through the wrong end of the telescope, and that what defines language is its staggering diversity – the vast span of 'engineering solutions' that evolution has found to the problem of human communication"
"The collapse of the institutions where young people learn to make and critique art stands to greatly benefit companies like OpenAI, which, in the absence of human artists and critics, can both make the stuff and tell us it’s good."
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
lareviewofbooks.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"The collapse of the institutions where young people learn to make and critique art stands to greatly benefit companies like OpenAI, which, in the absence of human artists and critics, can both make the stuff and tell us it’s good."
What a treat - @histphilosophy.bsky.social in the latest @lrb.co.uk
Peter Adamson · Five Hundred Parasangs: Maimonides works it out
www.lrb.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
What a treat - @histphilosophy.bsky.social in the latest @lrb.co.uk
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
Trump, Poutine : chacun invente sa novlangue pour supprimer les mots et avec eux, les réalités qu'ils désignent. Face à cette manipulation, la philosophe Barbara Cassin imagine une culture européenne émancipatrice, capable de s’affirmer comme un rempart.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6yZ
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6yZ
October 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Trump, Poutine : chacun invente sa novlangue pour supprimer les mots et avec eux, les réalités qu'ils désignent. Face à cette manipulation, la philosophe Barbara Cassin imagine une culture européenne émancipatrice, capable de s’affirmer comme un rempart.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6yZ
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/6yZ
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
Pour one out for @wikipedia.org in my latest for @mcsweeneys.net
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Pour one out for @wikipedia.org in my latest for @mcsweeneys.net
Really happy to see this through to publication!
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
SubStance
Volume 54, Number 2, 2025 (Issue 167)
tinyurl.com/ycxvd5dk
Special issue: Individuation in the Light of Simondon
Jason Tuckwell
Eleanor Kaufman
Daniela Voss
Yuk Hui
Daniel W. Smith
Jason Tuckwell
Thomas Lamarre
David Wills
Audrey Wasser
Anthony Uhlmann
Grant Hussong
SubStance
Volume 54, Number 2, 2025 (Issue 167)
tinyurl.com/ycxvd5dk
Special issue: Individuation in the Light of Simondon
Jason Tuckwell
Eleanor Kaufman
Daniela Voss
Yuk Hui
Daniel W. Smith
Jason Tuckwell
Thomas Lamarre
David Wills
Audrey Wasser
Anthony Uhlmann
Grant Hussong
October 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
"Philosophy occupies a 'unique modal space' where it discerns 'conditions of intelligibility whose necessity is not logical yet whose contingency is not empirical'" 🤌🏻
Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant
To preserve the unrestricted authority of reason in the moral sphere, Kant argued that the scientific use of reason yields knowledge of appearances only...
ndpr.nd.edu
October 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
"Philosophy occupies a 'unique modal space' where it discerns 'conditions of intelligibility whose necessity is not logical yet whose contingency is not empirical'" 🤌🏻
The only thing more mind-blowing than this place and its history is the contempt of resource companies and the negligence of governments
#Murujuga
#Murujuga
Ancient rock art in northern WA shows Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian devil
There are more than 2 million artworks on the rocks at Murujuga, with more stories under the waves.
www.abc.net.au
October 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The only thing more mind-blowing than this place and its history is the contempt of resource companies and the negligence of governments
#Murujuga
#Murujuga
What a fascinating study!
Aztec Latin: Renaissance learning and Nahuatl traditions in early colonial Mexico – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
bmcr.brynmawr.edu
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
What a fascinating study!
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
REGISTRATION is NOW OPEN for the 2025 ASCP conference! 😎
Please register as soon as you can, and by the 17th of November at the latest to keep your spot on the programme 🙏
Link here: www.ascp.org.au/ascp-confere...
Please register as soon as you can, and by the 17th of November at the latest to keep your spot on the programme 🙏
Link here: www.ascp.org.au/ascp-confere...
ASCP Conference 2025 - Individual Registration
Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
www.ascp.org.au
October 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
REGISTRATION is NOW OPEN for the 2025 ASCP conference! 😎
Please register as soon as you can, and by the 17th of November at the latest to keep your spot on the programme 🙏
Link here: www.ascp.org.au/ascp-confere...
Please register as soon as you can, and by the 17th of November at the latest to keep your spot on the programme 🙏
Link here: www.ascp.org.au/ascp-confere...
"If humans really were responsible for unsustainably hunting Australia’s megafauna, we’d expect to find a lot more evidence of hunting or butchering in the fossil record." 🦘
How this bone challenges an Australian megafauna extinction theory
Were giant kangaroos hunted to extinction? Some researchers think otherwise.
www.sbs.com.au
October 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"If humans really were responsible for unsustainably hunting Australia’s megafauna, we’d expect to find a lot more evidence of hunting or butchering in the fossil record." 🦘
Contrasts and even contradictions, yes of course, but this is also a land of dialectical inferences of pure reason.
Keep an eye-out for the spot-price on paralogisms.
🤡
Keep an eye-out for the spot-price on paralogisms.
🤡
Antimony: The Overlooked Critical Mineral Powering a New US–Australia Alliance
From ammunition to energy storage, antimony’s strategic importance is a key driver of capital flows and diplomacy and putting Australian small caps
smallcaps.com.au
October 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Contrasts and even contradictions, yes of course, but this is also a land of dialectical inferences of pure reason.
Keep an eye-out for the spot-price on paralogisms.
🤡
Keep an eye-out for the spot-price on paralogisms.
🤡
Reposted by Tim Flanagan
You're invited! Emily Hughes & I are running a workshop at Macquarie University in December. Called 'The alterity and excess of the relationscape', the event is built around Erin Manning's visit to Australia. All welcome, registration free but essential! sites.google.com/view/therela...
the relationscape
Macquarie University, Sydney – 11th and 12th of December 2025
sites.google.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
You're invited! Emily Hughes & I are running a workshop at Macquarie University in December. Called 'The alterity and excess of the relationscape', the event is built around Erin Manning's visit to Australia. All welcome, registration free but essential! sites.google.com/view/therela...