David Lloyd Dusenbury
@DusenburyDavid
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Old campaigner. @IJudgeNoOne is out now with Hurst & Oxford. Writing my next for Princeton University Press.
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Joined July 2020
If you’re interested in AI, or Sherlock Holmes — or Victorian post-humanism — or the Book of Revelation — or Sigmund Freud — or Ernst Bloch’s “Philosophical View of the Detective Novel” — or Carlo Ginzburg — or the fate of human literature ….
Was Conan Doyle a Victorian post-humanist? & is Holmes a dream of observant machines? -- Delighted that my homage to Carlo Ginzburg, & his gracious reply, are coming out in print this summer with the Editorial Universidad de Córdoba, in a volume edited by Andrea Robiglio.
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Delighted to see the summer essay I wrote with Philip Pilkington, “The Western Roots of China & Chinese Roots of the West”, come out in Mandarin. — @philippilk & I are working on a sequel. More to come.
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RT @philippilk: Happy to report that the essay that @DusenburyDavid and I wrote on 'The Western Roots of China and the Chinese Roots of the….
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Lake Constance is lovely in August. — Flying westward tomorrow.
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“All those who promise eternity to empires lie.” . Massimo Cacciari
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“Even the end-time is still time.” . Massimo Cacciari
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RT @finn_mcredmond: British food in 2025: meat and custard, gripped by post-war nostalgia, full of butter, set in opposition to the long ar….
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Tooze on the “new global cities” in China is worth reading. — There is nothing necessary about the 21st-century “western” cosmopolis.
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Had a quiet birthday with family, on the Swiss Bodensee. So much to be thankful for.
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I also picked up a copy of Massimo Cacciari’s “The Withholding Power”, which looks v. interesting.
Nice to catch sight of “The Innocence of Pontius Pilate” at Hatchards, while picking up a copy of David Graeber’s “Pirate Enlightenment”. @HurstPublishers
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Nice to catch sight of “The Innocence of Pontius Pilate” at Hatchards, while picking up a copy of David Graeber’s “Pirate Enlightenment”. @HurstPublishers
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Gary Dexter makes a plea for provable, artisanal human authorship in the current issue of @spectator. Worth reading; link below (& that’s Faulkner in Hollywood) —
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Mr Yarvin didn’t show, but it’s always a pleasure to reconvene with Leiden’s Dr Yuan Yi Zhu. @yuanyi_z
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