Emily Herring

OK you maniacs were right, it was really really good

OK you maniacs were right, it was really really good

A few years ago I wrote an article for @aeon.co about how French philosopher Henri Bergson's lectures in the early 20th century attracted a huge number of women and how their enthusiasm fuelled a backlash against him: aeon.co/essays/henri...
#Internationalwomensday

It's great. I couldn't put it down.

Herald of a Restless World The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought—a...

hey i even heard a certain Emily Herring wrote this book on Bergson, people should check it out!

www.basicbooks.com/titles/emily...

Geese is Mitski for sad boys whose Thom Yorke is Julian Casablancas

A few years ago I wrote an article for @aeon.co about how French philosopher Henri Bergson's lectures in the early 20th century attracted a huge number of women and how their enthusiasm fuelled a backlash against him: aeon.co/essays/henri...
#Internationalwomensday

I think I hurt my knee dancing at the Geese concert. Time for a mid-life crisis

Geese is Mitski for sad boys whose Thom Yorke is Julian Casablancas

I just saw Geese. Believe the hype

When Philosophy Stopped the Traffic in New York City | Los Angeles Review of Books Alexandre Lefebvre explores Emily Herring’s “Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People.”

My review of @emilyherring.bsky.social Herald of a Restless Age was selected as one of the top four pieces in “Theory & Criticism” for the LARB's 15-year anniversary edition.

It’s a love letter to my favorite philosopher, Henri Bergson.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/when... via

Thanks for your recs everyone! I finished my thing!!!

I don't use spotify anymore but thanks!

I'm looking to interview some non-American musicians or bands who've decided not to tour in the U.S. this year because of ICE. Please hit my DMs if you are willing to chat about this decision.

What is your favourite focus music? Asking for me who is pulling an all nighter at the working on a thing factory

Book Review: ‘Herald of a Restless World,’ by Emily Herring (Gift Article) Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what the fuss was about.

My book about Bergson! Reviewed! In the New York Times! What a time to be alive! My book is described as "lively and deft"! 🤓
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/b...

All good someone just sent it x

Thanks that's so kind!

The older I get the more I vibe with techno. What's that about?

I’ve just read @emilyherring.bsky.social’s excellent biography of Bergson, Herald of a Restless World, and now I want a bowler hat.

The older I get the more I vibe with techno. What's that about?

Most of us agree that these apps are terrible for us but it becomes even more obvious when you do actually step away

Most of us agree that these apps are terrible for us but it becomes even more obvious when you do actually step away

I have achieved this by removing apps from my phone and using site blockers because the addiction is bad

This is probably really an annoying post but I have massively decreased my social media usage, in particular anything that involves scrolling, and I have to say, as an anxiety sufferer, I feel better for it.

Why do we remember the past? Bergson's forgotten question Doudja Boumaza (University of Grenoble Alpes)

If the brain doesn’t store memories, where are they? Why do we summon the past into the present? Henri Bergson explored these questions. Doudja Boumaza (Grenoble) is at The Memory Palace today encouraging us all to revisit Bergson’s answers. Enjoy!
open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

“What a pity that everything we say to each other is always the same; the ideas we exchange are just alike in every conversation we have; yet inside each of these isolated machines, what hidden passageways, what secret compartments! Each man bears a whole world within himself! a world nobody knows that’s born and dies in total silence! What solitudes these human bodies are!” Alfred de Musset Fantasio

Alfred de Musset 💕

This is what all the cool people are doing

Hélas ! tout ce que les hommes se disent entre eux se ressemble ; les idées qu’ils échangent sont presque toujours les mêmes dans toutes leurs conversations ; mais, dans l’intérieur de toutes ces machines isolées, quels replis, quels compartiments secrets ! C’est tout un monde que chacun porte en lui ! un monde ignoré qui naît et qui meurt en silence ! Quelles solitudes que tous ces corps humains !

In the original French

“What a pity that everything we say to each other is always the same; the ideas we exchange are just alike in every conversation we have; yet inside each of these isolated machines, what hidden passageways, what secret compartments! Each man bears a whole world within himself! a world nobody knows that’s born and dies in total silence! What solitudes these human bodies are!” Alfred de Musset Fantasio

Alfred de Musset 💕