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Tom Vaswani
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Obscurant, channeling his inner Hegel. Purveyor of catchy tag-lines.

Projects: the Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture series @ CRMEP; admin of GillianRose.Org

Just trying to make sense of things.
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Tom Vaswani @tomvaswani.bsky.social · Jun 18
The Gillian Rose Memorial conference. London, 18-19 June. Swedenborg House.

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The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025
Rosean Futures: Promise and Perdition in the Thought of Gillian Rose
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Gillian Rose and the Indo-Europeanists progressivegeographies.com/2025/06/08/g...
Gillian Rose and the Indo-Europeanists
While I’ve been working on my Indo-European thought project, I’ve looked at a few books from the University of Warwick’s library which came from the Gillian Rose collection. Some of the books …
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June 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Rosean Futures …

Thoughts and recollections on the late Gillian Rose, philosopher.
June 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Inside the Inn at Penn, Trustees are making decisions none of us will ever have a say in. Out here, many of the workers whose research makes Penn a university are reading out their letter calling on Penn to respect their voice and let @rapup-uaw.bsky.social vote for their union
Long line of RAPUP-UAW members marching outside the trustees’ meeting Many RAPUP members holding a banner and union signs out on the street
June 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Rosean Futures …

Thoughts and recollections on the late Gillian Rose, philosopher.
June 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
tomvaswani.bsky.social
The Gillian Rose Memorial conference. London, 18-19 June. Swedenborg House.

www.kingston.ac.uk/about/events...
The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025
Rosean Futures: Promise and Perdition in the Thought of Gillian Rose
www.kingston.ac.uk
June 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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I'm giving a second chance to Bluesky.
Give me a follow if you're part of former philosophy-Twitter and Il follow you back.
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November 17, 2024 at 9:58 AM
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Here learning from others. Posts mostly about books, and interesting ideas. And football (both kinds). Barely survived 2016-2020. Will try again.
November 15, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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‘We start life so full of life, with so much in us, so much more than we can ever comprehend. Then life itself knocks it out of us, and philosophy begins.’

In the latest issue, Jenny Turner reflects on the life and work of her former teacher, Gillian Rose:

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Jenny Turner · What else actually is there? On Gillian Rose
Love’s Work is the ‘existential drama’ of a postwar Jewish British woman philosopher, born in London in 1947, who...
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November 5, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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Jenny Turner's essay on Gillian Rose is excellent. In 1995 I had the somewhat awkward task of 'reviewing' Love's Work for The New Statesman. I still don't quite follow the thinking about the sources of 'power' in her work, esp. late on; glad the early lectures are now published.
Old review of a book -- apologies, on Mastodon I could give you the while text of it.
November 13, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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Wife: “this is not dystopia. Yet”
November 6, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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Building some critical mass on here. #mufc
smnllyd5.bsky.social Si Lloyd @smnllyd5.bsky.social · Aug 4
Three posts a day for the rest of August. See where it goes
richio.bsky.social Rich @richio.bsky.social · Aug 4
Yeah, I think we just need a good group of people to consciously prioritise posting on here for a bit and I think we’d be away.
August 4, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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#1 in series of scholarly acknowledgements:

“To my colleagues who waded through the text and offered encouragement and criticism, I offer compassion and gratitude. There can be few gestures more friendly than reading a person’s commentary on Hegel.”

#Hegel does this to/for you
“To my colleagues who waded through the text and offered encouragement and criticism, I offer compassion and gratitude. There can be few gestures more friendly than reading a person’s commentary on Hegel.”
November 30, 2023 at 4:35 PM
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I wonder if Hegel will be making an appearance in the Napoleon movie … 🤔
November 1, 2023 at 1:22 AM
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For those in #London: Samir Gandesha will deliver The 4th Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture, Thursday, 19th October, at 6pm. "Identity Politics: Dialectics of Liberation or Paradox of Empowerment?"

More details: www.kingston.ac.uk/events/item/...

#GillianRose #CriticalTheory
gillianroseorg.bsky.social Gillian Rose, Philosopher @gillianroseorg.bsky.social · Oct 10
Samir Gandesha - Identity Politics: Dialectics of Liberation or Paradox of Empowerment?

The 4th Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture (2023). London, Thursday, 19th October at 6.15pm.

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Samir Gandesha - Identity Politics: Dialectics of Liberation or Paradox of Empowerment?
4th Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture
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October 12, 2023 at 9:49 PM
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October 10, 2023 at 5:38 PM