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.
Left behind, not forgotten #1 - Jimmy Raney "Guitaristic" (1963 but unissued till 1974); just a blinder, unreal chops.
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Left behind, not forgotten #1 - Jimmy Raney "Guitaristic" (1963 but unissued till 1974); just a blinder, unreal chops.
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
"... 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
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:
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.
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:
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):
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?
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:
Looks like a hare to me:
October 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Looks like a hare to me:
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:
"Aristotle was profoundly right ... ethics is concerned with how to live and human happiness ... this sort of 'practical knowledge' is ... wider than the sphere of 'science' ... and a cultural necessity if we are to arrive at a sane and human view of ourselves or of science." Hilary Putnam (1978)
September 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"Aristotle was profoundly right ... ethics is concerned with how to live and human happiness ... this sort of 'practical knowledge' is ... wider than the sphere of 'science' ... and a cultural necessity if we are to arrive at a sane and human view of ourselves or of science." Hilary Putnam (1978)
"Instead of being left behind, old evils return under new names ... human beings are no more reasonable than they have ever been." John Gray (2018)
September 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"Instead of being left behind, old evils return under new names ... human beings are no more reasonable than they have ever been." John Gray (2018)
In other news ... the Sunday morning concert at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam was not sh*t; Brahms & Strauss were actually rather wonderful:
September 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
In other news ... the Sunday morning concert at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam was not sh*t; Brahms & Strauss were actually rather wonderful:
Medium becomes toxic substrate; internet search is now a bare-faced raft for product placement; obviously, AI will also distribute embedded ads.
September 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Medium becomes toxic substrate; internet search is now a bare-faced raft for product placement; obviously, AI will also distribute embedded ads.
Bluesky reminds me today ... Arvo Pärt is 90; when I was drowning, as a young lawyer, the sure stillness of his music was so what kept my head up:
September 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Bluesky reminds me today ... Arvo Pärt is 90; when I was drowning, as a young lawyer, the sure stillness of his music was so what kept my head up:
"Although we are well aware that we know much that earlier generations did not, we are much less conscious of what they knew that we do not." Peter Burke (2024) #doubt
September 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
"Although we are well aware that we know much that earlier generations did not, we are much less conscious of what they knew that we do not." Peter Burke (2024) #doubt
"This is why we stay with poetry ... from forest to city, from story to computer ... we know ourselves as part and as crowd, in an unknown that does not terrify." Edouard Glissant #doubt
August 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
"This is why we stay with poetry ... from forest to city, from story to computer ... we know ourselves as part and as crowd, in an unknown that does not terrify." Edouard Glissant #doubt
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in, is essentially incomplete ... a false pretension .... a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs which are not scientific ... this is untrue." Michael Polanyi (1949)
August 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in, is essentially incomplete ... a false pretension .... a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs which are not scientific ... this is untrue." Michael Polanyi (1949)
The tales within are springful of lithe twists; a mysterious endeavour, set adrift in 132 copies for passing hand to hand; I'll be choosing a next custodian... once this book loosens its grip:
August 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The tales within are springful of lithe twists; a mysterious endeavour, set adrift in 132 copies for passing hand to hand; I'll be choosing a next custodian... once this book loosens its grip:
And the award for 'Ravishing Book Cover' goes to ... Luis Blackaller of @cartoondistortion.bsky.social for '999 Years of Peace' by James Kaelan:
August 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
And the award for 'Ravishing Book Cover' goes to ... Luis Blackaller of @cartoondistortion.bsky.social for '999 Years of Peace' by James Kaelan:
Echoes of Vilém Flusser, up front from @profstorm.bsky.social - "Postmodern doubt can be made to doubt itself ... show us the way toward humble, emancipatory knowledge" - a rich book: #doubt
July 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Echoes of Vilém Flusser, up front from @profstorm.bsky.social - "Postmodern doubt can be made to doubt itself ... show us the way toward humble, emancipatory knowledge" - a rich book: #doubt