Dr William Hebblewhite

2023 year in review: - Got Cancer - Got sick from treatment - Got really sick from treatment of treatment. - In Hospital 3 times - Almost died once - Hundreds of blood tests - 10s PETs, MRIs, CTs - Quit a job I loved - Got a job I don't love. - Ended the year with more cancer.

A snippet from a stunning lecture I am translating for @PoetKimHyesoon. Hope this helps you as it is helping me.

Labor as they lose the next election to Dutton:

Israel has bombed the main Lebanese University campus. LU is the public university in Lebanon, the largest university in the country, and provides affordable higher education. But most importantly, like all universities in Gaza, it is a legitimate target of Israeli destruction

One of my favourite gestures in French philosophy is the "I don't know her" response. Example: Ranciere will be like, "I was never receptive to Blanchot," despite his writings being full of critical allusions to Blanchot.

I hope this email finds you in bed ordering books you don’t have time to read

Good day for it

Hats off to the journo who raised this question. @AlboMP Labor locking up 10-year-olds, punishing them not the perpetrators by cutting off social media, burdening them with lifelong massive HECS debt, and ensuring they will never own a house and leaving them to suffer extreme climate disruption. #ThisIsJournalism

Both cafes I sometimes stumble into on Sunday are packed. Taking my coffee to read in the park instead.

Zheng Xiaoqiong, "Industrial Age"

Globalisation

On the obsolescence of much political philosophy open.substack.com/pub/digression…

@AsFarce @AjaanMark Really makes you think about how Albo is gonna love living in his new beach house

@DrDreHistorian Damn! I hope I don't end up in a coma....or maybe I do?

@Whebblewhite Enjoy the show for me, and I say that completely unironically. The night after I last saw Harakiri for the Sky, Draconian, and Sojourner in Prague, I ended up in a four-day coma in Norway

One more gig this year, Harakiri for the Sky and Austere next week. Totally different vibe to Coheed & Cambria.

Still lost in life and love, but at least my ears are ringing from 8hrs of progressive metal.

Fantastic to see Coheed & Cambria live. As well as Leprous and Intervals. Other bands did well, but didn't quite grab me.

Coheed & Cambria

Leprous.

Intervals