AdamN wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 7:34 pm https://milwaukeerecord.com/film/r-i-p- ... ke-schank/

Oh no. How very sad.

And it's goodbye to the always-enjoyable Robbie Coltraine.

Hopefully a right proper bastard dies next.

Bruno Latour. fuck cancer

prowler wrote: Sun Oct 16, 2022 9:39 am Bruno Latour.

Ah, that's a shame. He was a visiting fellow where I was doing my doctorate.* He was a really entertaining speaker, and gave the full 'French intellectual' thing. Although he was taken to task for some absurd pronouncements (which started early with the subtitle of Laboratory Life), if you skip the grandstanding (which he later regretted) you can get some great insights into the ways the practice of science and technology works and doesn't work.

* Although we didn't have him in the philosophy department, because he was a terrible philosopher

RIP Latour. I opened We Have Never Been Modern and Laboratory Life just now on the occasion.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 12:18 am

AdamN wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 7:34 pm https://milwaukeerecord.com/film/r-i-p- ... ke-schank/

Oh no. How very sad.

What a legend. This is such a bummer.

Leslie Jordan. Bummer, he seemed like a good one..

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/24/entertai ... index.html

Mike Davis. A titan. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5475-m ... -the-state

Clyde wrote: Mike Davis. A titan. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5475-m ... -the-state

That's really sad. I just tried to read that, and have stopped after the first few sentences overwhelmed me. Will return when less tired and fragile. Yes, a titan.

A quieter, older, more modest in achievement, but still remarkable man died the other day: Brian Robinson, the first Brit to win a stage in the Tour de France. I've been reading about riders of that era, and am consistently impressed by the sheer, stupid grit of that era of cyclist. Ride in peace, as a friend put it.