Bibliodérive is the application of the Situationist International practice of the dérive or “drift” reapplied to the realm of research, libraries and archives. The Flaxman Library bibliodérive is a collection of generative, open-ended actions, or situations, taken to destabilize research practices geared towards an expected product or outcome, the gathering of information to merely support […]

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has ravaged communities globally, people have been forced to re-examine what it means to be lonely and to live with loneliness in a way they had not before. The time is right for asking, what is the nature of loneliness and how does it affect individuals and communities? What is the difference […]

The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball is a book of popular philosophy in the tradition of Robert Pirsig’s Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The book’s inspiration was the birth of our first child, my daughter Cecilia. Becoming a parent can really focus your thinking. Holding her in my arms, I realized that what I wanted most […]

In Durham, N.C., the Bulls minor league baseball team has one asset no other can claim: a poetry-loving groupie named Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon). As the team's season begins, Annie selects brash new recruit Ebby Calvin Laloosh (Tim Robbins), whom she christens "Nuke," to inspire with the religion of baseball. Nuke also receives guidance from […]

Sheppard will trace Plato's thought back to Homer and the great tragedians. He will then cover Plato's reception by Aristotle (and his student Alexander the Great), Plotinus and the stoics and then by the Christian theologians Augustine and Aquinas. From there, it's onto modernity with Nietzsche and Simone Weil.