Drew S. Burk, PhD
drewsburk.bsky.social
Drew S. Burk, PhD
@drewsburk.bsky.social
I also edit a book series, https://www.upress.umn.edu/search-grid/?series=univocal

post-punk philosopher, translator, editor. I can make you rethink what you know about nothing...
reading Charles Stépanoff's great work on shamanism and the invisible participatory journey between the shaman and the lost soul or the group...slowing crafting how literature is perhaps an offshoot of consciousness.
January 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
good day for a nice jog with Finn...
January 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Eager to start reading this @violetlucca.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A marvelous ode to one of my running heroes..
King of the Fells: Joss Naylor, the shepherd with an unbeatable running record
YouTube video by The Guardian
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January 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Ubuntu in Africa
Ubuntu: The Essence of Being Human
YouTube video by DesmondTutu PeaceFoundation
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January 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Enjoyable day it was to meet Bois-vert, the local artist nearby saint michel de la rive et st. joseph de la rive...Québec..has it already been 8 years...
January 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
is it a thing to have tattoo anniversary, as a kind of living memory? I would suggest, yes. here's to the skull, yak, heron, dragon, lotus flowers, and blue rose, the crow, and whale...I impressed into my flesh as living memory...of some of the many works I've translated or edited...
January 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Excellent review of Univocal author, David Lapoujade's book about how to see the world(s) through the eyes of Philip K. Dick...
Multiple Worlds Vying to Exist: Philip K. Dick and Palestine - The Paris Review
“Empathy is what allows one to circulate between worlds.”
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January 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Beautiful Image I took of Lake Superior in the night sky prior to landing in Minneapolis...
January 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
l'art de lire ou bien l'art délire...je pense aujourd'hui avec l'oeuvre de Nicholas Roerich..reading over my training plan for the triathlon I signed up for..
January 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Another excerpt from my sci-fi novel in progress, Exoplanet. You can read the chapter, Inner Canal Zones, Cine District, October 15, 2075.
Inner Canal Zones: Cine-District. October 15, 2075
— ∞ “Inner Canal Zones: Cine-District. October 15, 2075” (pdf) – Drew S. Burk Drew S. Burk is a writer, editor, and translator of contemporary French thought. He was a found…
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January 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I think it might be time to finally publish the science fiction novel I've been working on, given that reality is finally catching up to it..a bit faster than I had hoped. You can read five excerpts from it here if you can navigate to them. alienocene.com/2019/12/23/a...
A Recollection of the Long Sleep
— ∞ “A Recollection of the Long Sleep” (pdf) -Drew S. Burk, 2019 Drew S. Burk is a writer, editor, and translator of contemporary French thought. He was a founding member of Univo…
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January 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Francois Laruelle and I present the bilingual edition of his work, Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics, at the Minneapolis, MN, Midway Contemporary Art Library, October, 2013. He passed on to a different realm this past year, he was a good friend and mentor. May you journey onward, dear friend.
January 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
One of the most influential works I've ever read, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's Cannibal Metaphysics, trans. Peter Skafish, 2014.
January 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
things I would like to be doing right now: cycling. Univocal author Michel Serres and Bernard Pivot cycling at Stanford in the 1980s..
January 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Old memory: a surreal dreaming moment (and painting) whilst passing a marathon outside the art museum coming in from the harbour in Quebec City. A stack of Univocal books as well..
January 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Univocal's Throwback Editions: Fernand Deligny and Felix Guattari. Only after I began working on the project did I learn from Guattari's wonderful daughter that Deligny was in fact their neighbor. She reminisced about growing up next to Deligny one day while we ate lunch in the Marais.
January 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A link to my recent essay, Remembering [for] the Future: On Artificial Consciousness and Archival Anamnesis over at the Alienocene Journal..
Remembering [for] the Future: Artificial Consciousness and Archival Anamnesis
Drew S. Burk Drew Burk is a philosopher and translator of contemporary Francophone literature and philosophy.  He is also the editor of Univocal, a publishing series with University of Minnesota Pr…
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January 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Recent releases in the Univocal Series.. Roger Bartra's Shamans and Robots: On On Ritual, he Placebo Effect, and Artificial Consciousness.
January 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM