NowHere 😷

once upon a time. Master of staircase wit. Hong Kong and philosophy and art and learning Ancient Greek and whatnot. //「大切な人」が一瞬にして「あんな奴」となる私。//

[NowHere 😷 @soIamnowhere2]

網上寫信比手足
犧牲不是最可怕，最可怕是犧牲完得不到認同。
信件對他們而言絕對！非常！有用！

[Aatif Rashid @Aatif_Rashid]

I’ve been reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed for a book club I’m in, and I have to say I find it absolutely extraordinary. I don’t usually read science fiction, but I’ve been completely blown away by how immersive the writing is and how insightful the ideas are.

[Harvard University Press @Harvard_Press]

A seemingly triumphant city, riven by conflict and contradiction.

The age of Pericles, in the fifth century BC, is often described as the “Golden Age” of Athens.

The city witnessed a flowering of philosophy, art, and architecture, with the Parthenon as its centerpiece. 🏛️

But as David Stuttard reveals in this vivid account, Athens was a tyrannical empire—the Parthenon was perhaps less a holy place than a work of propaganda.

Its sculptures carried the message that Athenians, beloved by the gods, were nearly divine in their own right...

Which, to many Greeks, smacked of hubris: https://t.co/odNwYK74sL

[Brian Kern / Kong Tsung-gan / 江松澗 @KongTsungGan]

This is the 1st book published by a former political prisoner who was imprisoned re the 2019 Hong Kong mass protests. “J” decided after much deliberation to publish it under a pseudonym because he doesn’t want people to forget about political prisoners. https://t.co/ORhA5XWsf9

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

A historian has discovered that a 16th century printing of The Almagest—a highly influential ancient astronomy text—contains extensive annotations from Galileo Galilei, the astronomer who later overthrew that text’s conception of a geocentric cosmos.

Learn more: https://t.co/LKuaHrPDH4

[འོད་ཟེར།唯色Woeser💙💛 🦋 @degewa]

《措确色增：被取消、被遗忘却不会消逝的甘丹颇章祭典》四种版本同步上线：

简体中文
繁体中文
藏文版（译者：柳霞·卓嘎 སྣེའུ་ཤར་སྒྲོལ་དཀར།）
英文版（译者：Pazu Kong）

跨越语言，是为了让一个被遮蔽的历史，重新进入不同的阅读社群。

感谢所有参与此书的同仁。🙏

Tsokchoe Serdreng: The Ganden Phodrang Ritual That Was Cancelled and Forgotten Yet Remains Imperishable is now available in four editions:

Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Tibetan (translated by སྣེའུ་ཤར་སྒྲོལ་དཀར།)
English (translated by Pazu Kong)

Across languages, this publication seeks to bring a once-obscured history back into different reading communities.

My thanks to all colleagues who contributed to this book.

#tibet #GandenPhodrang #TsokchoeSerdreng #lhasa

[Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 （氒/厥/攸） @behrwolf]

邁入嶄新時代? https://t.co/AQITVl9OHx announced today that AI translations of "all texts in the pre-Qin and Han corpus that previously lacked translations, the 25 dynastic histories, as well as hundreds of other historical, literary, philosophical and poetic works" (1/2)

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🖼️ The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has uncovered a new painting by Rembrandt, using advanced scanning technology and stylistic analysis to confirm it was crafted by the Dutch master.
➡️ https://t.co/3t1Jl5eHFB

[Reuters @Reuters]

International Atomic Energy Agency emergency meeting https://t.co/JgFmFF4Eqf

[Reuters @Reuters]

From Turkey to Seoul, demonstrations have erupted across the world in the wake of US-Israel strikes on Iran, with some condemning the attacks and others rallying in support https://t.co/W07W8U8yoZ

[Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office @FCDOGovUK]

Due to reported missile attacks, British nationals in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and United Arab Emirates should immediately shelter in place.

Remain indoors in a secure location, avoid all travel and follow instructions from the local authorities.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Han Kang, the celebrated South Korean author and our 2024 literature laureate, explores the themes that shaped her novel ‘The Vegetarian’ in her Nobel Prize lecture:

“While writing my third novel, 'The Vegetarian', from 2003 to 2005, I was staying with some painful questions: Can a person ever be completely innocent? To what depths can we reject violence? What happens to one who refuses to belong to the species called human?

Electing not to eat meat in a refusal of violence, and in the end declining all food and drink except water in the belief that she has transformed into a plant, Yeong-hye, the protagonist of 'The Vegetarian', finds herself in the ironic situation of quickening towards death in her bid to save herself. Yeong-hye and her sister In-hye, who are in fact co-protagonists, scream soundlessly through devastating nightmares and ruptures, but are together in the end.

I set the final scene in an ambulance, as I hoped Yeong-hye would remain alive in the world of this story. The car rushes down the mountain road beneath blazing green leaves while the alert older sister gazes intensely out the window. Perhaps awaiting a response, or perhaps in protest. The entire novel resides in a state of questioning. Staring and defying. Waiting for a response.”

Read the full lecture here: https://t.co/Y2NXj7PbyA

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new material on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today. Hope you find it useful!

[C Thi Nguyen @add_hawk]

People will say things like, "This made my day" or week or whatever, but the WaPo review of my book... made me feel like I have not wasted my life.

[penguinpress @penguinpress]

A five-star review for @add_hawk's book, THE SCORE, from @washingtonpost: "Brilliant and wildly original . . . THE SCORE is socially attentive, historically literate and imbued with sensual glee. It is exuberantly eclectic." On sale tomorrow!
https://t.co/yMBl3HiWEc

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

This is the American version of my new book, from UChicago. Coming in May

[UChicago Arts & Humanities @UChicagoAHD]

Mary Beard’s celebrated 2023 Berlin Family Lectures are becoming a book. Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old (@UChicagoPress, 2026) revisits how antiquity deepens our modern world through disruption.

More here: https://t.co/zuPd5jjSnL

[Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg @DailyNousEditor]

Texas A&M philosophy prof Martin Peterson, told by the university to remove readings by Plato & others from his moral problems course, is replacing them with a news article about the university's censorship & violation of academic freedom. See Update 3 at https://t.co/DNWucnrOJO

[Alexandre Lefebvre @alex_usyd]

John Rawls & Stanley Cavell were career-long frenemies.

To make sense of it, I went to the Rawls archive at Harvard and read Rawls’s private notes from their meetings: painstakingly earnest, frequently baffled.

Open access in EJPT: https://t.co/WpFRTFe1f4

[NowHere 😷 @soIamnowhere2]

2025看過的若干本書
比原以為的更多範疇
——為某稿看了些耶穌會士在華傳教史、並選讀了中國哲學研究法論文集
Ada Limon 是當代美國詩人，對其玩味意象的方式頗有感
柏拉圖這本聚焦蘇格拉底作為敘事者而不僅僅是對話者/思考者的角色，意外地頗有啟發
但看得最認真的其實是羅馬哲學那本，也因此補了些空白

[NowHere 😷 @soIamnowhere2]

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