Thesis is almost completed and submitted – only a fortnight to go. I thought I’d just post a few pieces of news. Details are now online for my talk in November at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking festival at The Sage Gateshead. Saturday the 3rd of November and free to the public – I’ll …
A short introduction to my research that was recorded last week will be broadcast tonight on BBC Radio 3 Night Waves between 10 and 10:45. BBC Radio 3 Night Waves – Tate Liverpool, Timothy Secret Update: To listen back to my appearance: follow the link above, select ‘listen now’, and forward to about 25:30.
I’ve recently had confirmation that my article ‘Il n’y a pas de la trace’ on the meta-theory behind the work of Jacques Derrida has been accepted for publication in French in a coming edition of Les Temps Modernes. Hopefully I will find a location for this to be published in English in the near future …
It’s a great honour and privilege to have been recently awarded the title of one of the ten ‘New Generation Thinkers 2012’ by the AHRC and BBC Radio 3. I’m really looking forward to working on developing some of the themes from my research into material with the producers at Radio 3 and BBC Television …
Further to kick-starting having some material here – here is the start of the current preface to my research. I am, I say, convinced that these manifestations do not correspond to a false curiosity in us, but in fact indescribably concern us and (if one were to exclude them) would still be capable of making …
This relatively long opening update offers a general orientation to some of the themes that will hopefully be addressed in the future in this blog. Socrates: The story goes that the cicadas used to be human beings who lived before the birth of the Muses. When the Muses were born and song was created for …
While I’m generally writing up my doctoral thesis and have therefore put a total halt on giving conference papers, I’m nevertheless very excited to be making a one off exception for The 13th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia from July 2-6. My …
The German philosopher Martin Heidegger frequently made use of the Pietist mantra that “denken ist danken“, that “to think is to thank”. Even if this etymological connection only holds in languages with Germanic roots (for example, there is no such connection between the French penser and remercier), it seems quite appropriate to begin this new …