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In the dark times, will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing.
About the dark times.
- Bertolt Brecht, “Motto”
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“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”
-Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry’s vision of a sacred world christiancentury.org/feature… via @ChristianCent
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“An essential aspect of power is that it only likes to laugh at its own jokes.”
- Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason
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Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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The US military is burning the planet and poisoning everything on it to sustain an imperial death machine. Our film Earth's Greatest Enemy exposes the environmental cost of global military empire and why dismantling it is a matter of survival. Watch now: vimeo.com/ondemand/earthsgre…
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“All mistranslations are good—always provided that they do not consist in interpretations, but relate to the use of the book, that they multiply its use, that they create yet another language inside its language.” Deleuze
Are we losing our ability to understand the philosophical greats?
Babette Babich argues that translating the works of great philosophers ultimately leads to their arguments being misunderstood, a problem increasing as fewer and fewer people can read Ancient Greek.
Babich is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University and the editor of the journal New Nietzsche Studies.
She joins Christoph Schuringa and Genia Schönbaumsfeld to discuss the evolving relationship between analytic philosophy, rooted in the English speaking world, and continental philosophy, based primarily in France and Germany.
Tap here to watch the full debate. iai.tv/video/the-future-of-e…
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“exciting news” is an understatement about something that has me in tears
Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The post implies the author is announcing the birth of this calf, however the Malayan tapir calf shown here was born at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium on February 2, 2025.
pdza.org/endangered-tap…
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I’m happy to share that my new book, The Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers, is out today. A paperback edition will follow.
edinburghuniversitypress.com…
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“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
― Jean Genet
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“Religion and climate (in)action: Assessing the obstacles and prospects for effective mobilization in response to the climate emergency . . . and facing up to our apocalyptic moment" is more personal than most of what I write and available for free at doi.org/10.1515/978311145375…
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“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
