Jonathan Webber

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#philsky Just published ––– Coming to Terms with the Need for Meaning: How an Existential Demand Awakens in Camus’s L’Étranger by Thom Hamer 🌟 open access ! 🌟 free to all ! 🌟

This is why people try to destroy music, why the music industry, streaming industry, AI are all designed to function in a way that crushes and humiliates music. Because for people who dislike music, there is no other outlet. This is the only way our society accepts an expression of not liking music.

#philsky #booksky #bristol @stgeorgesbris.bsky.social at St George's Bristol on World Philosophy Day 2026 –– Philosophy Salon: Existentialism as Therapy? Julian Baggini with Emmy van Duerzen and Jonathan Webber Thursday 19 November, 7.30pm Full details: bit.ly/PSEAT

#philsky British Society of Aesthetics and Welsh Aesthetics Forum present … Environmental Aesthetics & Valuing the Natural World 9.00 - 17.30 Wednesday 30 September 2026 Council Chamber, Main Building, Cardiff University Free! All welcome! Register here:

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! In today’s episode exploring how 20th-century philosophy and biography intersect David talks to philosopher and biographer @philosofemme.bsky.social about Jean-Paul Sartre, a thinker whose life has been as closely scrutinised as his ideas. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Incidentally on both occasions - Tuesday's statement and PMQs - gilt rates spiked the moment markets opened (the hallmark of imported volatility) and actually came down while Burnham was on his feet. Every single part of the media machine confecting the narrative understands this and does it anyway.

We are hiring—a permanent lectureship in Ethics/Political Philosophy—deadline 15 Nov www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/144566-...

« “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal Anthropic planning document said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.” »

Boy the home office tried to deport at 9 wins British chess championship at 17 Congratulations to Shreyas Royal. liberalengland.blogspot.com/2026/08/boy-...

Headline of the Day surely goes to @theguardian.com —

#philsky #booksky ✨✨ The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy is now published in North America! ✨✨ here are some of the things people have said about it ...

Open plan offices are the best approach for office space. But the open plan desks should be used by managers. The actual workers need to concentrate and should have individual, soundproofed offices. Managers need to chitchat, so they need a noisy room.

They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center.

“The corporate takeover of language and thought will only succeed if academics and students allow it.” Edinburgh Philosophy telling it like it is #philsky #ai

“The corporate takeover of language and thought will only succeed if academics and students allow it.” Edinburgh Philosophy telling it like it is #philsky #ai

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

“investigation had found that AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed … invented fictitious scandals, gave the wrong date for the election, claimed wrongly that voters in Scottish elections needed ID at polling stations and placed candidates in the wrong contests.”

I enjoyed two years in the Philosophy department at UH and had stellar students there from Herts and the north London commuter belt. This closure of Philosophy and local opportunities for young people like them is heartbreaking.💔

Difficult times at the University of Nottingham - the whole of the Department of Philosophy is formally at risk of redundancy, with plans to get rid of 7 people in the department. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every General Election, Panini should bring out a parliament sticker album.

Post your warning sign

This entire pointlessly destructive war so far has cost the US military around $60 billion, which is around twice the amount cut from USAID which saved millions of lives.

If AI was genuinely useful your employees would choose to use it, you wouldn't have to mandate its use.

Went to the Gwen John exhibition at the National Museum in Cardiff yesterday and it was wonderful

"Switzerland still has a stockpile sufficient to feed its entire population for three months and is increasing it to a year. The UK government’s advice to households is to have three days’ worth of food in their cupboards."

“Can someone with skills clean this up and make a 10-hour YouTube version?” #sheffield

redactio ad absurdum

Every year for the past decade, our philosophy editor, Nigel Warburton, has picked his best five philosophy books of the year. Here are all his choices -- from Buddhism to utilitarianism and Hannah Arendt to Zhuangzi: fivebooks.com/category/phi...

“Existential phenomenology, far from being an esoteric philosophical discipline, has crucial political importance in helping people collectively see themselves as agents of change.” Excellent short article from Tris Hedges —

#philsky 30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy ::

I'm giving an online talk on Saturday morning with the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling :: Bad Faith, Bullshit, and Belonging :: mainly Beauvoir and Sartre with some Kierkegaard and Heidegger Everyone is welcome! Booking is here: bit.ly/SAPCbfbb

“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.” —Simone de Beauvoir In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇

✨✨ The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by me is published today in the UK! (Australia and North America publication is next February.) ✨✨

✨✨ The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by me is published today in the UK! (Australia and North America publication is next February.) ✨✨

🎈Book launch! The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by Jonathan Webber Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30 Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!

Books. No cookie preferences. No cookies. No GDPR. No pop ups. No bots. No floating videos. No AI. No ads. No trackers. No misinformation. No fascist techbros. No distracting animations. No paywalls. No influencers. How good are these things? Books are frickin awesome

Police officer, running up to me: "Stop, what's that brown liquid you're pouring into the drain?" Me: "It's 1,000 gallons of untreated sewage" PO: "Phew, I thought for a minute it was a few dregs of coffee"

Post 16 White Paper is out at last www.gov.uk/government/p...

I think it's excessive to remove all his titles. He should have just been downgraded to The Marquis Of Granby, or maybe The Slug And Lettuce.

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

British monarchy encloses 150 acres of public land for their private use.

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding: "When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

“AI has turbocharged the spread of bullshit and falsehoods. It is not able to produce actual, qualitative academic work, despite the claims of some in the AI industry. As researchers, as universities, we should be clearer about pushing back against these false claims by the AI industry.”

Anyway, you do have to wonder what this means for "growth": yesterday's ID proposals are *designed* to make access to work more difficult for people on low incomes, and they come with the side effect of potentially squashing a growing domestic technology sector.

“After nearly a decade of mutilating the country to address the ‘legitimate concerns’ about immigration, we’re still being told the precise same nonsense we were told in 2016, or in 2005.” — @iandunt.bsky.social

“Either we have copyright law or we don’t. Either plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property are anathema to higher education or they aren’t. We’re either modeling academic honesty and integrity to our students or we aren’t.”