Check out this very original and exciting paper, shedding new light on what on earth Spinoza means by "simplest bodies" !!

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I enjoyed being in this discussion on friendship, on Free Thinking: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Final ep of a fine season of BBC Free Thinking. Tbh I thought it took a while to get to the core themes of *friendship* (& Foucault for me an unconvincing pilot). But stick with Matthew Sweet Tiffany Watt Smith Susie Orbach, Stephen Shapiro A X Douglas bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

So for me in the discussion, A X Douglas captures that essential anthropological relation, & corresponding tension, between *friendship* & *kinship*. This is imv (& I’ve only just started his book) what makes his new study a vital read for our ‘mimetic’, hypertrophic era

New blog post: Peter Thiel in Locksley Hall open.substack.com/pub/axdouglas/…

Me on David Runciman’s History of Bad Ideas podcast, talking about identity (not that I think it’s an unequivocally bad idea!): ppfideas.com

Exciting new book on Cartesianism, featuring Lauren Douglas (😍), Anna Ortín Nadal and others! Find out why the facile “criticisms” of Cartesianism you were taught as an undergrad were reductive and dogmatic. routledge.com/Cartesianism-a…

There's a fair bit of criticism here, but I enjoyed reading this very engaging review of my book:

On the show today: George Hibberd on pilots & climate change; Dr. Jp McMahon on splitting the bill;A X Douglas on identity fetishism; Sarah Madden on long holidays;Amanda Brunker & Mary McEvoy are sick of your crap; The 1st Trans-atlantic cable; Onion baskets re-born...

Shakuntala Devi, the remarkable woman who could out-calculate a computer

What a powerful start. Just finished Against Identity by A X Douglas, one of the most insightful reads I’ve had in recent years. Heavy recommendation for anyone looking for some clarity in their everyday lives.

Cook Ding and Technology: open.substack.com/pub/axdouglas/…

Go and see this if you’re in Edinburgh and a fan of the Zhuangzi! Or if you just want to see beautiful, philosophically deep theatre edfringe.com/tickets/whats-…

Chatbots are all talk

We. Do. Not. Need. Journals. axdouglas.com/2024/04/24/fuc…