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Tim Howles
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Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · May 9
What should the Left do with the work of Bruno Latour?

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"William Blake Was a Prescient Critic of Capitalist Alienation"
By Jonathan Agin
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William Blake Was a Prescient Critic of Capitalist Alienation
Before socialism even had a name, the poet and painter William Blake saw how the Industrial Revolution’s "dark Satanic mills" harmed humanity. His visionary work condemned the forces of commodificatio...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve?

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Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve?
Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Have just ordered:
"La Guerre Chaude: Enjeux Stratégiques du Changement Climatique"
www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/en/book/?GCO...
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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RIP Paolo Virno (1952- 2025), Italian Marxist philosopher and semiologist
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Reading today:
November 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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The D'Arcy Room, Campion Hall, University of Oxford (just underneath my office):
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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"The Catholic Church and the Trump Administration Are Not Getting Along: The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty"
Elizabeth Bruenig www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Catholic Church and the Trump Administration Are Not Getting Along
The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty.
www.theatlantic.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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What's the best scholarly "webinar" series you've seen in the last few months. (If people are still registering for such things). In the humanities/ social sciences. Thanks
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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A little review by me of an interesting recent book on Christian ethics and the idea of perfection, in "Studies in Christian Ethics". If of interest.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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"The ten hours' light is abating,
And a late bird flies across,
Where the pines, like waltzers waiting,
Give their black heads a toss."

(from Thomas Hardy, 'At Day-Close in November')
November 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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"Something Wholly New: The real significance of an English king praying with the pope"
Austen Ivereigh
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Something Wholly New
In Rome, Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III met not so much to restore a tradition as to inaugurate a new one.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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“Literature and Art as Cognitive Objects: From a Poetics of Language to a Poetics of Action”
Patricia Kolaiti

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November 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Reposted by Tim Howles
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Added a link to an interview with the author, Melissa Moschella.

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November 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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So glad you’re reading Golding and especially The Inheritors. Great article.
November 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Just starting to write in the Cambridge Elements series on the philosophical theology of this man:

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November 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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New EGS Podcast episode with Catherine Malabou.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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This looks interesting:
October 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
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‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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New book:
“Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel & Marx”
Michael Lazarus. Stanford: UP, 2025.

www.sup.org/books/politi...
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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New book:
“Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel & Marx”
Michael Lazarus. Stanford: UP, 2025.

www.sup.org/books/politi...
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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“Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist”
Peter J. Verovšek

Columbia University Press

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October 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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"Kant: A Revolution in Thinking"
Marcus Willaschek
Translated by Peter Lewis
hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…
October 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Reposted by Tim Howles
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Venice used to have a second church on Piazza San Marco: S. Geminiano designed by Sansovino you can see in this Canaletto painting. It was kind of a big deal; shows up in a ton of artwork. It was destroyed by Napoleon — to build a ballroom.

Napoleon occupied Venice 1806-1814, eight years.
Painting view of Piazza San Marco showing corner of Loggetta and facing away from Basilica San Marco towards church of San Geminiano with white stone facade, classicizing. Aerial shot of Piazza San Marco showing facade of the now Museo Correr, Napoleonic ballroom. Photograph interior of ballroom, cream colored, ceiling paintings, stone floor, empty and lifeless just like Napoleon
October 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM