AgnesCallard
Philosopher, UChicago. My book _Aspiration_ in the TLS: in the New Yorker: Profile drawing: Abe Callard
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Vanilla Chiffon Roll
Project Pastry Love 4d 1 tweets
Vanilla chiffon roll is a sweet cake with a big vanilla flavor. It is filled with a light and very delicious chocolate-walnut mousse.
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AgnesCallard This is not only my favorite dessert recipe but also the objectively best dessert recipe. 4d
Why Philosophers Shouldn’t Sign Petitions
Nytimes.com 4d 23 tweets
Our job is to persuade by argument, not by wielding influence.
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AgnesCallard I have stepped into the gender war currently raging in philosophy, though my contribution is heavy on "war" and light on "gender" 5d
The last interview with Bryan Magee
Prospectmagazine.co.uk 8d 6 tweets
A great public intellectual passed away last month. Magee spent his life wonderstruck by the sheer fact of existence, for questions about the nature of reality are “obviously the most important and interesting there are”
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AgnesCallard I'm sorry. But this interview with Bryan Magee is so good I can't restrict myself to just one quote. THREAD! 8d
Athleisure, barre and kale: the tyranny of the ideal woman
the Guardian 16d 9 tweets
How we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization. By Jia Tolentino
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AgnesCallard This piece has some good moments but doesn't escape the trap it describes. If we were to stop eating kale, taking barre and wearing athleisure, then what? It's not wrong for women to aspire to an ideal; what's wrong is having the wrong ideal. 8d
Confession is Just a Special Form of Bragging: On "Fleabag" - LARB
Los Angeles Review of Books 18d 5 tweets
Anastasia Berg considers confession and confessors from Saint Augustine to Fyodor Dostoevsky to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's "Fleabag."
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AgnesCallard "As a work of art, Fleabag thus displays to us guilt in its elusive fullness, and ineliminable privacy. For all the tribunals and public disapproval, absolution can never come fully from someone else, if at all." Terrific essay by 13d
The Ghost of Aristotle Interviewed by a Telepathic Tapeworm • TPL
The Picket Line 30d 2 tweets
The Picket Line scores an exclusive interview with Aristotle in which we try to get him to recant his views in favor of slavery. Unfortunately, he seems to have turned the tables on us.
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AgnesCallard "Have you considered the possibility that you haven’t abolished slavery and made everyone free but have instead abolished freeness and made everyone a slave?" A conversation with Aristotle. 21d
Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”
Alex Kantrowitz - BuzzFeed News 25d 24 tweets
The button that ruined the internet — and how to fix it.
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AgnesCallard “The biggest problem is the quote retweet,” Goldman told BuzzFeed News. “Quote retweet allows for the dunk. It’s the dunk mechanism.” 21d
Being and drunkenness: how to party like an existentialist – Skye C Cleary | Aeon Ideas
Aeon 22d 28 tweets
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre defied the gloomy existentialist stereotype. They enjoyed having a good time
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AgnesCallard ‘We merely wanted to snatch a few nuggets of sheer joy from this confusion and intoxicate ourselves with their brightness, in defiance of the disenchantments that lay ahead.’ " Fun read from via 22d
What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?
What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? 24d 13 tweets
in-depth autobiographical interviews with philosophers
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AgnesCallard Now you can read the whole interview of what it is like to be a philosopher when that philosopher is me. 23d
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AgnesCallard Below is my response to 's question as to the biggest differences between me and other philosophers (excerpted from: ) 24d
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AgnesCallard pinging again to invite you to my late night philosophy conversation series at the University of Chicago, "Night Owls" Here’s a Tribune article on it: Recent interview w/me: Me on heartbreak: 21d
What Should You Do When Someone Breaks Your Heart And It Hurts So Much You Want To Die?
Angryrainbowmermaids.blogspot.com 27d 2 tweets
32 answers for those who can't abide good advice while feeling bad .* (1 ) Watch this . (2)  Anger can be a relief from sadness, so ...
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AgnesCallard When your friends say “you are better off without him” and “he doesn’t deserve you,” don’t become enraged at them. Instead, just think to yourself, “I am better off without them” and “they don’t deserve me.” Rule #13 of 32 for dealing with heartbreak. 27d
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AgnesCallard pinging again to invite you to my late night philosophy conversation series at the University of Chicago, "Night Owls" Here’s a Tribune article on it: Recent interview w/me: Me on heartbreak: 21d
The Secret Rebellion of Amelia Bedelia, the Bartleby of Domestic Work
The New Yorker 55d 1 tweets
Bartleby taught us to look for resistance in forms of ascetic refusal; Amelia Bedelia turns passive aggression into a kind of art.
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AgnesCallard “Amelia Bedelia turns passive aggression into a kind of art.” Exactly what my kids and I love about these books. 55d
"Would You Rather Be a Dog or a Ghost?" Is the Perfect Party Question
GQ 115d 2 tweets
Watch. Try it.
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AgnesCallard Going to try this if I ever go to another party. My answer is ghost, obviously. 59d
Jonathan Kay on the tyranny of Twitter: How mob censure is changing the intellectual landscape
Andrew Coyne, Jonathan Kay - National Post 786d 22 tweets
Without intending to, Twitter’s culture warriors have created a sort of crowdsourced ideological autocracy ― and paradoxically, it’s left-wingers who are often targets
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AgnesCallard "...wages within the journalism industry flat-lined, job security eroded... less motivation to toe your boss’s line, more motivation to focus on your own digital brand.Your boss could take away your paycheque. But she could never take away your followers." 69d
The pseudo-profundity of Malcolm Gladwell
Newstatesman.com 72d 1 tweets
Malcolm Gladwell is sometimes criticised on the basis that, although he has a reputation as a thinker, all he does is précis other people’s research. That’s not fair. Popularising academic ideas with style for a broad audience is hardly an ignoble...
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AgnesCallard “The art here lies in making the platitudinous conclusion seem like a revelatory place to end up, after one has enjoyed the colourful “stories” about carefully described plucky individuals with certain hairstyles and particular kinds of trousers.” 72d
On Left Straussianism
The Point Magazine - The Point Magazine 84d 11 tweets
Nobody shares all their private complaints with an audience, but how do we know how much to share and with whom? Certainly, in the name of various kinds of shared commitments, it seems best…
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AgnesCallard This piece could serve as a manifesto for The Point, and makes me proud to write for it. 84d
Fanning the Flames While the Humanities Burn
The Chronicle of Higher Education 89d 12 tweets
A debate over 'privilege' threatens to overshadow the real problem. 
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AgnesCallard Great piece by on how the responses to Kay prove his point. Has the the life of the mind become so incomprehensible that longing for it can only be read as maleness and colonial chauvinism? 89d
Can philosophy be cool? A Hyde Park debate series revives the art of the late-night dorm rap session
chicagotribune.com 92d 5 tweets
A portrait of Night Owls, the philosophy series at University of Chicago that has become a centerpiece of intellectual life in Hyde Park
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AgnesCallard Night Owls in the Chicago Tribune! 92d
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AgnesCallard pinging again to invite you to my late night philosophy conversation series at the University of Chicago, "Night Owls" Here’s a Tribune article on it: Recent interview w/me: Me on heartbreak: 21d
Practical Moore Sentences - Mandelkern - - Noûs - Wiley Online Library
Onlinelibrary.wiley.com 92d 1 tweets
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AgnesCallard Check out this great paper by an up-and-coming philosopher. 92d
An Interview With A Man Who Eats Leftover Food From Strangers' Plates In Restaurants
The Concourse 99d 6 tweets
Alex is a 43-year-old San Franciscan who works in the financial sector. He also eagerly eats uneaten and untouched leftover food off of plates if he spots it out in the open at a public dining establishment, even if it’s off a stranger’s plate. He...
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AgnesCallard "With guacamole, you’re not putting a spoon in there. You’re taking a chip, the chip is grabbing the guacamole, and then it’s going right in your mouth. All in one bite. People aren’t really double dipping chips." Hard to argue with his reasoning. 96d
Against Advice
The Point Magazine - The Point Magazine 100d 4 tweets
This is the fourth in a series of columns on public philosophy by Agnes Callard; read more here. We live in a glorious era of podcasting, public conversation and boundary-crossing interest in niche academic…
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AgnesCallard My newest column for , in which I argue that all advice is bad advice. 100d