Sure having six kids with an aging billionaire on a mars colony is great, but have you tried spending an afternoon in the reading room at La Bibliothèque Jacques Doucet ?

We can't force the brain to fit our existing conceptual frameworks. We need something new. But Bergson here points out how difficult this is.

New Bergsonian publications: - Bergsoniana n°5 – Metaphysics and History of Philosophy - Herald of a Restless World by Emily Herring - Avec Bergson by Frédéric Worms - Du Finalisme en biologie by Dr Mathilde Tahar - Correspondances II edited by Caterina Zanfi and Florent Serina

It’s hard to explain the effect @_ryanruby_ of this moving work . As a reader of prefaces, what came to me, from a different context, is the relation between the Tulip (poem, liliaceae tulipa ) and the color breaking virus (para text, potyvirus).

Special Feature: “Empathy in Three Movements” by Vedran Husić - The Cincinnati Review. Found this true, of the all-devouring nature of living-in-grief, and beautifully told too. cincinnatireview.com/special-featur…

Some archival mise-en-abîmes-en-scenes-en place

My amazing doctoral student Paul Deshusses whose thesis is on animal semiotics has also been in the realm of bug-sounds composition and y’all should go listen : zyxdance.lnk.to/Threehoppers

Gut stuff! How Typing Transformed Nietzsche’s Consciousness thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-typing-tra… #EssentialKnowledge #Philosophy #Technology via The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social

Who did this ?

A long, captivating then fastidious then re-enchanted telling of the epistolary form and its relation to Dasein and also a theory of why cold, capricious love is sublime ..

I know the other place is more heimlich compared to this uncanny place, but it’s also more boring.And also I can’t want to. One void is all I can manage

Teddy Adorno and his perfect intransigence even when applying for refugee intellectual status

Very excited to be hashing out my draft paper « Henri Bergson’s Mal D’Archives » with the History and Theory brain trust this week Ethan Kleinberg Société des Amis de Bergson

They finally invented a literature by people who can't write for people who don't read

Craik’s poem, with its restrained yet strikingly intimate tone and delicate architecture of hidden rhymes, pierces me to the marrow. On whom can we rely in living death if not on our tatty paper friends?

Elated to announce that my baby, "Realism after the Individual," has a stunning cover and is available for preorder! University of Chicago Press remains undefeated for making beautiful books. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

sundays are for worship

On a train from Ventimiglia to Milan, I read your allegiance as allegation, was too ruined by rapture, buried in chords, magnolia heretic Alina Stefanescu—felt like I saw your old apartments, open windows, borders reduced by giants. It’s very moving and as polyglot of heart as of sound.

Do you stop reading when a book offends you? In our new column A Closer Read, @garthgreenwell argues it’s often worth staying with the discomfort. yalereview.org/article/garth-…

If you have something to work through on projection, transference and global governance, and wish to do so in the Alps, please see below, travel expenses covered.