Edmund Griffiths
@edmundgriffiths.bsky.social
Author of Aleksandr Prokhanov and Post-Soviet Esotericism (ibidem-Verlag, 2023)
New poem: Canute
www.edmundgriffiths.com/canute.html
www.edmundgriffiths.com/canute.html
September 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
New poem: Canute
www.edmundgriffiths.com/canute.html
www.edmundgriffiths.com/canute.html
@pierssy.bsky.social I'm afraid it looks as though your account on the other micro blogging app might have been hacked
February 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
@pierssy.bsky.social I'm afraid it looks as though your account on the other micro blogging app might have been hacked
Does the FT not have a house style for spelling Greek words? Hard to believe it would be that one. Maybe Mr Thiel is rich enough to sidestep it
January 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Does the FT not have a house style for spelling Greek words? Hard to believe it would be that one. Maybe Mr Thiel is rich enough to sidestep it
Wikipedia includes a metrical translation of God Save the King into Tatar, that can be sung to the original tune—a thing nobody in history has ever wanted
January 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Wikipedia includes a metrical translation of God Save the King into Tatar, that can be sung to the original tune—a thing nobody in history has ever wanted
Just posted: my talk on Fu-Manchu from this evening
edmundgriffiths.com/fumanchu.html
edmundgriffiths.com/fumanchu.html
December 19, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Just posted: my talk on Fu-Manchu from this evening
edmundgriffiths.com/fumanchu.html
edmundgriffiths.com/fumanchu.html
There is indeed such a word
December 17, 2024 at 6:00 PM
There is indeed such a word
Wiktionary has an example of the masculine adjective
December 17, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Wiktionary has an example of the masculine adjective
Got around to posting this talk on ghost stories, from last month
edmundgriffiths.com/ghoststory.h...
edmundgriffiths.com/ghoststory.h...
November 29, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Got around to posting this talk on ghost stories, from last month
edmundgriffiths.com/ghoststory.h...
edmundgriffiths.com/ghoststory.h...
Just posted: my talk on the Analytical Engine
edmundgriffiths.com/analyt.html
edmundgriffiths.com/analyt.html
November 28, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Just posted: my talk on the Analytical Engine
edmundgriffiths.com/analyt.html
edmundgriffiths.com/analyt.html
If you're around in Oxford next week, & you're looking for a Marxist talk on C19th calculating engines, you're in luck
November 20, 2024 at 12:10 PM
If you're around in Oxford next week, & you're looking for a Marxist talk on C19th calculating engines, you're in luck
If you're around in Oxford on Thursday, I'll be speaking at this
October 27, 2024 at 10:19 PM
If you're around in Oxford on Thursday, I'll be speaking at this
This is like when they still had invite codes
September 11, 2024 at 2:58 PM
This is like when they still had invite codes
"Oh God, now he's going to want to do it every chance he gets"
September 4, 2024 at 7:59 PM
"Oh God, now he's going to want to do it every chance he gets"
More than a third were either delusional or lying. Lying, probably; they've got products to sell, & "our detergent gets your clothes so clean it might DESTROY LIFE IN THE GALAXY" is a great advertising line (assuming you can persuade the news to take it seriously)
August 24, 2024 at 10:13 PM
More than a third were either delusional or lying. Lying, probably; they've got products to sell, & "our detergent gets your clothes so clean it might DESTROY LIFE IN THE GALAXY" is a great advertising line (assuming you can persuade the news to take it seriously)
Yes but in 1983 it's a very short article, defines it as "a term used in Soviet & overseas Marxist literature in the 1930s–early 1950s to designate mistakes in philosophy made by A.M. Deborin's group"
August 22, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Yes but in 1983 it's a very short article, defines it as "a term used in Soviet & overseas Marxist literature in the 1930s–early 1950s to designate mistakes in philosophy made by A.M. Deborin's group"
How come when he does it he's a whimsically lovable folk hero for our time, but when I get distracted and read a book instead of doing work I'm "lazy" & a "layabout" & "holding up the whole project"
www.wantedinrome.com/news/rome-bu...
www.wantedinrome.com/news/rome-bu...
August 21, 2024 at 2:59 PM
How come when he does it he's a whimsically lovable folk hero for our time, but when I get distracted and read a book instead of doing work I'm "lazy" & a "layabout" & "holding up the whole project"
www.wantedinrome.com/news/rome-bu...
www.wantedinrome.com/news/rome-bu...
It literally never shuts up for a second
August 18, 2024 at 8:33 PM
It literally never shuts up for a second
Most materialist work by a Western philosopher with that word in the title
August 18, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Most materialist work by a Western philosopher with that word in the title
I realize it's a minor quibble when an asteroid has extinguished the earth but I don't quite understand the grammar of this headline
www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
August 15, 2024 at 7:15 PM
I realize it's a minor quibble when an asteroid has extinguished the earth but I don't quite understand the grammar of this headline
www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
Why would they hire the one person on the internet who can't do a "Trump on twitter" impression? At least say "sad" or "the haters & losers" or something, make it look as though you're trying
August 13, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Why would they hire the one person on the internet who can't do a "Trump on twitter" impression? At least say "sad" or "the haters & losers" or something, make it look as though you're trying
Advance notice for comrades in Oxford: next month I will be replacing brain cells one by one, seeing colour after never having seen it before, undergoing decoherence in my microtubules, and hanging upside down from my feet in a cave so I can tell you exactly what it's like
August 12, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Advance notice for comrades in Oxford: next month I will be replacing brain cells one by one, seeing colour after never having seen it before, undergoing decoherence in my microtubules, and hanging upside down from my feet in a cave so I can tell you exactly what it's like
Ridiculously mild for the time of year. Feels like about March. The plants won't know whether they're coming or going
December 10, 2023 at 2:18 PM
Ridiculously mild for the time of year. Feels like about March. The plants won't know whether they're coming or going
I see what you did there, Sir J.G.
![adduce some examples of gods who have been believed by their worshippers to be incarnate in living human beings, whether men or women. The persons in whom a deity is thought to reveal himself are by no means always kings or descendants of kings; the supposed incarnation may take place even in men of the humblest rank. In India, for example, one human god started in life as a cotton-bleacher and another as the son of a
carpenter. [1317] | shall therefore not draw my examples exclusively from royal personages, as I](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cgrjbinw7dk7dzhowjp34gpo/bafkreibm3vljalbzqocqzd3v55d2c6mohzmrnpvecxc7qwpw66memhlqtm@jpeg)
December 2, 2023 at 4:35 PM
I see what you did there, Sir J.G.
Obviously wrong decision & one that will "inflame tensions" itself (& has indeed already been condemned by the Muslim Association of Britain, among others, as well as by Jewish groups)
November 30, 2023 at 11:48 PM
Obviously wrong decision & one that will "inflame tensions" itself (& has indeed already been condemned by the Muslim Association of Britain, among others, as well as by Jewish groups)