Blakey French
@blakeyfrench.bsky.social
(Act III) field philosopher (nascent) #Lostness #Doubt #Degrowth
… slatey immigrant, likely to repost pictures of hares.
ProfilePics: Big beard, straw hat & shades; with a vista of daunting hills.
… slatey immigrant, likely to repost pictures of hares.
ProfilePics: Big beard, straw hat & shades; with a vista of daunting hills.
Sarah Kendzior is now de-suspended; BlueSky have looked so amateur this week: bsky.app/profile/sara...
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Sarah Kendzior is now de-suspended; BlueSky have looked so amateur this week: bsky.app/profile/sara...
If BlueSky suspends someone, natural justice requires, surely, that they be given some explanation? @jay.bsky.team #sarahkendzior
November 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
If BlueSky suspends someone, natural justice requires, surely, that they be given some explanation? @jay.bsky.team #sarahkendzior
What he said👇; moved to tears at times, cutting edge: @maryhalvorson.bsky.social
Mary Halvorson sextet! #BIMhuis
Geweldig concert weer van een van de absolute topbands in de jazz op dit moment.
Mary Halvorson gitaar, Jonathan Finlayson trompet, Jacob Garchik trombone, Patricia Brennan vibrafoon, Nick Dunston bas, Tomas Fujiwara drums
Special guest Ketija Ringa Karahona fluit
Geweldig concert weer van een van de absolute topbands in de jazz op dit moment.
Mary Halvorson gitaar, Jonathan Finlayson trompet, Jacob Garchik trombone, Patricia Brennan vibrafoon, Nick Dunston bas, Tomas Fujiwara drums
Special guest Ketija Ringa Karahona fluit
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
What he said👇; moved to tears at times, cutting edge: @maryhalvorson.bsky.social
"... it is not, after all, really a question about whether you can know the unknown, arrive in it, but how to go about looking for it, how to travel." Rebecca Solnit #lostness
November 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"... it is not, after all, really a question about whether you can know the unknown, arrive in it, but how to go about looking for it, how to travel." Rebecca Solnit #lostness
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"Perhaps the role of the philosopher, the role of philosophy at present, is not to be a theoretician of totality, but the diagnostician, if you will allow me to use this word, the diagnostician of today."
― Michel Foucault
#BookSky Raymond Aron & Michel Foucault, Dialogue.
― Michel Foucault
#BookSky Raymond Aron & Michel Foucault, Dialogue.
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
"Perhaps the role of the philosopher, the role of philosophy at present, is not to be a theoretician of totality, but the diagnostician, if you will allow me to use this word, the diagnostician of today."
― Michel Foucault
#BookSky Raymond Aron & Michel Foucault, Dialogue.
― Michel Foucault
#BookSky Raymond Aron & Michel Foucault, Dialogue.
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![A mysterious knight is wearing elaborate golden armour while holding a sword and a large spiked sheild. A text box like those seen in rpg’’s or text adventures says ‘you have encountered [redacted] the unknowable’ a second text box has ‘attack, flirt, dance, flee’ in descending order. Flirt is selcted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jg23z6h3tznj5wsefwste6xl/bafkreibwxs4ryx36qh6jcakgjxsmfxmmkxj2j37sarx3v4bg2p5yslge6a@jpeg)
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CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
Woven with joyous startles; such a deft & soulful player: @marcribot.bsky.social at the Bimhuis, here in A'dam:
November 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Woven with joyous startles; such a deft & soulful player: @marcribot.bsky.social at the Bimhuis, here in A'dam:
We can't see them, but we're told they are there ... hence, an obligatory repost of hares:
A Rather Grey Morning. 14°C and mild. Hares in the fields.
November 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
We can't see them, but we're told they are there ... hence, an obligatory repost of hares:
Michel de Certeau (on AI?): "The presence and circulation of a representation (taught by preachers, educators, and popularisers as the key to socioeconomic advancement) tells us nothing about what it is for its users." - AI mania may deflate, with a farty 'phut' not a bang, just through banal usage.
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Michel de Certeau (on AI?): "The presence and circulation of a representation (taught by preachers, educators, and popularisers as the key to socioeconomic advancement) tells us nothing about what it is for its users." - AI mania may deflate, with a farty 'phut' not a bang, just through banal usage.
It is essential, in days like these, to rip into political parties who claim to be 'left' whilst swinging hard-right; Zack Polanski leads the way:
“The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"
Zack Polanski challenging the tired narrative of the mainstream media is a thing of beauty.
Zack Polanski challenging the tired narrative of the mainstream media is a thing of beauty.
October 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
It is essential, in days like these, to rip into political parties who claim to be 'left' whilst swinging hard-right; Zack Polanski leads the way:
That eternal hope thing seems to be bubbling up again on BSky; mood swing:
October 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
That eternal hope thing seems to be bubbling up again on BSky; mood swing:
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“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Well this is wonderful ... and not available on easy stream (via Platenzaak, Eindhoven):
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Well this is wonderful ... and not available on easy stream (via Platenzaak, Eindhoven):
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Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded.
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet [The First Letter], 1903
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet [The First Letter], 1903
October 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded.
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet [The First Letter], 1903
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet [The First Letter], 1903
Dear diary - today I went to Eindhoven, it was very tidy. #dutchdesignweek
October 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Dear diary - today I went to Eindhoven, it was very tidy. #dutchdesignweek
One for the hive mind, no prizes just gratitude: I helped this little fella today, when he knocked himself out on a plate glass window - a finch?
October 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
One for the hive mind, no prizes just gratitude: I helped this little fella today, when he knocked himself out on a plate glass window - a finch?
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Doubt is unsettling to the ego, and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by proffering certainties will never grow. In seeking certainty they are courting the death of the soul.~James Hollis
October 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Doubt is unsettling to the ego, and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by proffering certainties will never grow. In seeking certainty they are courting the death of the soul.~James Hollis
Keir Starmer - my dislike for Margaret Thatcher was a tad less fierce; he's so strange:
October 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Keir Starmer - my dislike for Margaret Thatcher was a tad less fierce; he's so strange:
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Diane Keaton | Interiors | Woody Allen | 1978.
October 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Diane Keaton | Interiors | Woody Allen | 1978.
Looks like a hare to me:
October 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Looks like a hare to me:
Such a pleasure last night, to come across the fine playing of Dimitrios Tsiotas (at the Kring, here in Amsterdam) : #jazzsky #jazzguitar www.dimitriostsiotasmusic.com/bio
Bio | DIMITRIOS TSIOTAS
www.dimitriostsiotasmusic.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Such a pleasure last night, to come across the fine playing of Dimitrios Tsiotas (at the Kring, here in Amsterdam) : #jazzsky #jazzguitar www.dimitriostsiotasmusic.com/bio
A lesser-taken path towards restored faith in humankind: #doncherry #jazzsky
October 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A lesser-taken path towards restored faith in humankind: #doncherry #jazzsky
This one goes out to @wendyo.bsky.social ... 'Compleat Imbiber' spirits glass by Frank Thrower for Dartington Crystal ... so 1972:
September 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This one goes out to @wendyo.bsky.social ... 'Compleat Imbiber' spirits glass by Frank Thrower for Dartington Crystal ... so 1972: