Nikolaas

Research Fellow @KU_Leuven, writing about love. Previously @UnivCathoParis and @UniofOxford. Phenomenology, queer theory, and philosophy of religion. I cook.

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My book on love is now available for pre-order! It provides an original phenomenology of love through a fundamental critique of Heidegger’s existential ontology. It will be out in December and includes a preface by Claude Romano, whose work the book was largely inspired by.

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@cszabla Britain always has to lead the world in the mind of the British, anything else is inconceivable. A strange kind of delusion.

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@ikisnick Exactly. We love to complain about how terrible everything is here.

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@ikisnick Yes, I’m sorry! We bought our house when I was 22 and still studying. ☠️ (My husband is 8 years older, though.) People complaining about a housing crisis here have no idea how bad it is in neighbouring countries.

[UK HE News @HigherEd_UK]

Confas knew he'd not be employed at any normal university for long. The most lucrative path forward has always been international right-wing darling status. The 'go fund me' alone will probably dwarf any professor salary, and other offers will line up soon.

[Aurora! My God. @SedimentedGeist]

😭😭😭😭😭

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@BrunoTertrais @GerardAraud All big problems of humanity are limitations of the imagination.

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@samhaselby Too loosely, apparently. With the difference in field come extreme differences in methods.

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

artificial intelligence can read the lines in any text, but humans can read between the lines

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@F466OT Is this the one that features in Tales of the City as a spot for picking up a date?

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@bdjansenphd I was once given 24 hours on a Friday night.

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@ikisnick Ron Dorff!

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@ikisnick God, I have a husband like this and it is -awful-. I’m basically his secretary.

[someone’s fat uncle @nextlevelrobbie]

the only thing i will remember Ann Widdecombe for was calling gay men “something of the night”, which in fairness is fierce

[Matt Olma @matt_olma]

Some definitions for any who are confused.

Subjective: bad
Objective: good
Ontological: very
Valid: true
Metaphysical: ontological
A priori: without thinking on it too deeply
Deontological: prudish
Postmodern: bad in a French way
Continental: bad in a German way

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@sbaroncohen Please do make the job market even worse for us. The sense of entitlement is shocking.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Thank you for your application, the successful candidate will hear from us shortly and the unsuccessful will eventually realise their failure over the weeks and months we ignore their inquiries

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“Why the hell are people emailing me at this hour?!” - hearing the email ding at any time for any reason

[Nikolaas @ConcreteNoun]

@JurgenGeevels @FFeys Iemand met de luxepositie om blijkbaar geen grotere zorgen aan het hoofd te hebben moet zich met iets bezighouden, zeker…