@barrystocker
I back Ukraine & Taiwan. British 🇬🇧 philosopher based in Istanbul🇹🇷, working at universities here for many years. Author of the monographs: *Derrida on Deconstruction (Routledge)*, *Kierkegaard on Politics* (Palgrave), Philosophy of the Novel* (Palgra
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 13th March, 17:00. David Lloyd Dusenbury, ‘Philosophy and the Origins of Artificial Intelligence’ hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/b... via @hespeisbosphor
On Friday, Manuel Knoll presented his paper to the Boğaziçi Philosophy Colloquium on ‘Machiavelli’s Ethic of Political Responsibility’. A scholarly and thought provoking presentation was followed by an engaged discussion. The back of my head can be seen in the last picture!
A stupid question = a question that makes me look stupid.
To enter campus without Boğaziçi ID: Please send your name (to my institutional email: barry.stocker(AT)bogazici.edu.tr) as soon as possible and definitely before 15:00 on the day of the talk. I will add your name to the list provided to security
f24.my/BmMQ A French survivor of Evin prison (a centre for the detention and torture of political prisoners) on the situation in Iran
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 6th March, 17:00. Manuel Knoll, ‘Machiavelli's Political Ethics of Responsibility’ hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/b... via @hespeisbosphor
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A Snoopy tribute from Wynton Marsalis! Joe Cool’s Blues (Snoopy’s Return)
Snoopy’s version of *Citizen Kane* (Orson Welles, 1941. Widely considered to be a major moment in film history).
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1/3 The physical copy of my latest publication has arrived. ‘Foucault’s Baroque’ in *Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking*. Edited by Michaela Fisérova and Jakub Mácha. Routledge, 2026
We have Reform. Now we've also got Restore. What's next? I know! Revise and Resubmit.
No, Mr Rubio: your speech sounds deaf to European ears after a year of multi-pronged American threats and coercion.
No word on Ukraine, democracy, the Trump administration’s nor plans to support Europe’s far right.
#Munich
Germaine is now sleeping on the Schelling and Schleiermacher volumes. She has overcome Kant!
Messing around with ChatGPT. Noirish image of me as Boğaziçi University philosophy instructor
New York City officially celebrated World Hijab Day, according to the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs
Germaine (named after Germaine de Staël) is on top of the Kant volumes !
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium.
Friday, 6th February, 17:00
Ali Emre Benli
University of Vienna
To enter campus (to my institutional email: barry.stocker(AT)bogazici.edu.tr). I will add your name to the list provided to security
Very calm cat on Levent metro station platform in middle of crazy rush hour crowd, I had to wait for the second train
Hooded crow Boğaziçi University, south campus today, just in front of John Freely Hall, on the way to my office
Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
Marie is a Weber cat
Boğaziçi University Philosophy Colloquium. Friday 6th February, 17:00. Ali Emre Benli, 'Climate Emergency and States' System Responsibilities towards Refugees' hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/b... via @hespeisbosphor
At home after the haircut with Germaine the cat in the background. It will look different tomorrow after I wash it and gel it. So a rare fleeting moment in time
This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this.
Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
The waiting is over! *Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking* (eds Michaela Fišerovà & Jakub Mácha) is now available in hard copy and e-book formats from Routledge. It includes my chapter ‘Foucault’s Baroque’
