🦇 Just in time for Halloween, delve into some of NYPL's most remarkable holdings relating to author Mary Shelley and her gothic masterpiece, ‘Frankenstein,' with an all-new audio guide to a special display now on view in #NYPLTreasures ⚡️🔩 🎧: on.nypl.org/48VQq99

🔔PUBLIC LECTURE INVITATION 🔔 Join us for the 5th #STIASPublicLecture of the year. STIAS Fellow, Siphokazi Magadla will present a lecture titled: “From Meadowlands to Libya: Love, family and the betrayal of freedom”. 🗓️ 14 August 2025 ⏰ 16:00 - 17:30 SAST

Simone de Beauvoir on love and friendship — simply superb: themarginalian.org/2025/04/11/sim…

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” — Anaïs Nin

I’m so proud of you! Gibson Ncube 🥳🥳

“From Darwin to Derrida: evolution as interpretation” by David Haig iai.tv/articles/from-…

Whenever anyone asks why I’m in love with Žižek…whilst also recognising that love is violence insofar as it denotes love of you to the exclusion of all others…which in itself is the most conformist of affects.

Zanzibar’s beauty draws crowds, but its coral-stone streets hold memories of the Indian Ocean slave trade that cannot be ignored. 🏝️ theconversation.com/abdulrazak-gur… 💻 Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Harvard University University #ArtsCultureAndSociety

“Pretending to be crazy is one of the dimensions of what I might call the politics of the modern hero. It is what Shakespeare latched onto when he decided to write the tragedy of Hamlet - and the whole point is to figure out what the madman ...

Adieu, Lacan (2022) After two miscarriages and --in her own words-- "losing" her husband, a Brazilian woman goes to Paris to see Jacques Lacan, reputedly "the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud." youtu.be/guzvRgWddkA

Spectres of Marx is so funny. "Mr Derrida, can you give a lecture on Marx?" "Yes of course. So to prepare, I read the Manifesto, and wow, very first sentence, a GHOST! Freaky, right? You know what else has a ghost? Hamlet! So let's talk about that..."

Emmanuel Levinas, Time and the Other, 1979, page 90

Florence + The Machine - King youtu.be/L62LtChAwww?si… via YouTube