Control Force

one cute thing about going on a lot of dates with strangers as a phd student is that you very quickly realize that everything about your professional life makes no sense to most people

its may day folks

Note that here, just as in the Phaedrus, Plato does not engage in "interpretatio graeca", but rather calls the Gods of Egypt by Their proper names.

@petedotowens I and @RWBeitz are both many and deeply flattered. I reciprocate!

Scientists Solve 30,000-Year-Old 'Venus' Statue Mystery, Study Says vice.com/en/article/bvn…

The genre of the Hermetica is critique, not doctrine.

Pantheism?

Proclus on the Hypotheses of the Parmenides endymions-bower.dreamwidth.org/58824.html

Via Dirk Baltzly on FB, new release in March of the vol. 2 trans. of Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Republic. There's a 20% discount for the pre-order with a code (PCPR2022) on checkout. cambridge.org/be/academic/su…

@MharaStarling Welsh Witchcraft: A Guide to the Spirits, Lore, and Magic of Wales by @MharaStarling is available to pre-order. amzn.to/347igmd (#advertisement)

Great episode! @HistPhilosophy historyofphilosophy.net/clr-james

I am pure trauma.

Lots of love to all my fellow Xmas haters out here! ❤️

More on Judith Shklar and Charles Taylor’s showdown in 1976 (partial transcript of conference discussion session):

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

"If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave." —Gabriel Boric, President-Elect of Chile

Today's gender is isolation and the sound of a clock ticking.

The Journal of the History of Philosophy has announced the winner of its 2021 book prize... dailynous.com/2021/12/20/ng-…

Me iIn the strip club like:] "What if there's no poetry to this?"