I spent July in St. Andrews, Scotland, where I was able to hang out with smart people who think a lot about what intelligence looks like in other species, in machines, and even off-planet. We drank whisky and woke up every morning to views like this. Thanks Templeton World Charity Foundation for paying for it all!
In June, I had the surprise honor of picking up a book award. I learned about six months before then that What Comes from a Thing was chosen by the Caribbean Philosophical Association to receive an annual award for contributions to philosophical literature.
Even more humbling than the award itself was sharing the stage with Kamau Brathwaite, Robin D.G. Kelley, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and fellow San Francisco State alum, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
Alums Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Phillip Barron win Caribbean Philosophical Awards. Congrats! https://t.co/KNKUvrJBr7 #SFSU #GatorGreat @rdunbaro @ptbarron @caribphil @sfsucw @SFSUAlumni @14Hills pic.twitter.com/7O2gDQGV1m
— SF State Arts (@SFStateLCA) January 22, 2019
By way of invocation, I read “The Problem of History” (below) as well as “Who’s Afraid of Franz Kafka,” is by Ángel Escobar.
This poem, “The Problem of History,” by @ptbarron is something else.
— Chris Heaney (@chrheaney) June 6, 2019
“we trespass in a place
“that asks not to be kept.”
Wonderful. pic.twitter.com/B6AMDF6K61
