CN Biltoft
@BiltoftCN
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prof, writer. editor @capitalism. sémioticienne. human. midwestern expat. author of https://t.co/mL02hbBkrw
Geneva, Switzerland
Joined July 2023
I wrote a book ❤️It’s not just about the League of Nations, it’s about the fascism within us ALL and how to resist it ❤️ with great Blurbs from Martin Jay and @ekleinberg with appearances from Jung, Heidegger, Benjamin #antifascista.
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The newly born League of Nations confronted the post-WWI world—from growing stateless populations to the resurgence of right-wing movements—by aiming to create a transnational, cosmopolitan dialogue...
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RT @yalereview: Do you stop reading when a book offends you? In our new column A Closer Read, @garthgreenwell argues it’s often worth stayi….
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Garth Greenwell asks what we can do with the art that offends us—and why staying with bad feeling might matter.
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RT @BorisDralyuk: Los Angeles is a large city in a large county. I’ve been on the road all day—Silver Lake to Lynwood to WeHo, back again—a….
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On a train from Ventimiglia to Milan, I read your allegiance as allegation, was too ruined by rapture, buried in chords, magnolia heretic @aliner—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.
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Hello friends! If you are a are philo-local come get coffee and I’ll tell you about my book chapter: The Joke in the Machine: Bergson, Freud and Humor as Psycho-social Cryptogram
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Whitman says of the United States, Poets as reference not Presidents, and all the more that we should not submit to Grok.
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Some flesh for those who partake in this fetish 🩷 as yet ill sorted, sans ordering.
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RT @Tyler_A_Harper: The threat AI poses to education is an emergency and the failure of universities to treat it as such is a staggering ab….
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RT @raf_walk: Elated to announce that my baby, "Realism after the Individual," has a stunning cover and is available for preorder! Universi….
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RT @BorisDralyuk: Craik’s poem, with its restrained yet strikingly intimate tone and delicate architecture of hidden rhymes, pierces me to….
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James Baldwin reminds me that we need never be as simplistic, rabid, knee-jerk or inelegant as the tyrant. Art and Intellectual life is also always on the line, and is always hated by those who wish to avoid thinking, to feel powerful and righteous.
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RT @grnpointer: They finally invented a literature by people who can't write for people who don't read.
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Just finished this, it’s so well conceived and well constructed and thoughtful and very good🩷.
Read my biography of Bergson to find out about his philosophy of durée, his secret meeting with President Wilson during WWI, the experiments he and Pierre Curie conducted on an Italian medium, and why he caused the 1st traffic jam on Broadway:.
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Very excited to be hashing out my draft paper « Henri Bergson’s Mal D’Archives » with the History and Theory brain trust this week @ekleinberg @AmisDeBergson
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Teddy Adorno and his perfect intransigence even when applying for refugee intellectual status
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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.
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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 .
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Gut stuff! .How Typing Transformed Nietzsche’s Consciousness #EssentialKnowledge #Philosophy #Technology via @mitpress.
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The Malling-Hansen writing ball, with its potential and limitations, redefined Nietzsche’s philosophical and creative expression.
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