Adam Robbert

@AE_Robbert

I run . Philosophy as a way of life, askēsis, Pierre Hadot, contemplative practice, perception, sensemaking, aesthetics, and media ecology.

San Francisco
Joined November 2011

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    18 Nov 2019

    TSV 3 Call for Papers: Collective Navigation "We are, as a collective, developing new organs of perception." Proposals due by Friday, December 6. Full call and description here:

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  2. 18 hours ago

    Sometimes, I like the given just fine.

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  3. Retweeted
    Feb 1

    No other Dem can pull a crowd like this. The Democrat party wants everything except democracy

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  4. Retweeted
    Feb 1

    Speaking of contributors, if you’re not already, give a follow. He’s developing great insights into the asymmetries of our relationship with much “social” technology.

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  5. Feb 1

    Speaking of contributors, if you’re not already, give a follow. He’s developing great insights into the asymmetries of our relationship with much “social” technology.

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  6. Feb 1

    I'm digging into the drafts for TSV 3 today. I'm really excited about it. Wonderful people with insightful ideas. Each issue advances the project a little more. We're laying the path down in walking, as the saying goes.

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    This is an advertisement for the nonverbal humanities.

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  8. Jan 31

    You become a thoroughly linguistic subject first, and then go on to find all of the meaning and sense in language, etc.

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  9. Jan 31

    This is an advertisement for the nonverbal humanities.

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  10. Jan 31

    It's a guess, but I suspect the linguistic turn in philosophy, to say nothing of its over-identification with grammar, discourse, reading, etc., is at least in part a result of the media ecology of the academic environment. (Also likely why nonverbal practice is underemphasized.)

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  11. Jan 31

    “If our politics stops with such private practices, it is inadequate, but if it does not grow out of private practices, it is liable to be warped and damaging.”

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  12. Jan 31

    Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Politics: “Nonetheless, Merton’s commitment to a contemplative politics has much to teach us about how to live and act in a time when politics seems to be reduced to shrill voices one-upping each other on Twitter and TV.”

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  13. Jan 30

    Still one of the best sources on the question. WTF did written language do to us, anyway?

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  14. Jan 30

    Anyone else do this? Write & edit papers in their head? I do. I wonder if this is just a way of thinking writers are predisposed to, and that’s why they end up being writers, or if all the writing & editing feeds back & drives highly verbal modes of thinking. Both, probably.

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  15. Jan 30

    If I had written this paper today, I would've included sections not just on spaces or places, but on time and timing as holding their own kind of affordance potential.

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  17. Jan 29

    Another question: Combatting information distortion / “fake news” / pollution of the information ecology, etc. through control mechanisms is bound to produce a whole set of new problems. Who is having that conversation?

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  18. Jan 29

    A question for folks who study this stuff more closely than I do: My view is that when it comes to something like political polarization / radicalization, quite a bit has to go awry in the IRL world first (e.g., economic disparity) for these things to take hold. Thoughts?

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  19. Jan 29

    “Your attention is the product.” — . More essential listening from .

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  20. Jan 29

    Philosophy in this sense always issues from within different practice landscapes and basecamps, to use Peter Sloterdijk’s terms. We ought then to think of these spaces as training grounds and scaffolds for physical transformation, as gymnasiums for contemplative exercise.

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  21. Jan 29

    Just like the spider's web, the aesthetics of contemplative spaces modulate the philosopher’s cognitive faculties, amplifying attention, permitting sustained practice and repetition, and affording insights that an isolated cognitive system likely would not achieve on its own.

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