Cicero’s doom-ideation brigade. Her philosophical self-harm troupe. Her philosophy Z team. Her parasuicide squad.
Our pidgin Europeanism. Our European philosophy gobbledygook. Our speaking in European tongues.
Our free British improvisation on European themes. Our daft extemporisation on Continental thought.
It wasn’t European philosophy’s fault. Continental philosophy shouldn’t be held responsible.
The problem is, it was mediated through the stupid English head. What the English head does to continental ideas! How it banalizes European ideas!
This was really a toy European philosophy, like toy poodles. This was really pretend European philosophy. But wasn’t that enough?
Rockpool European philosophy. Diminished European philosophy. Shrunken European philosophy. The shrunken heads of Europeans. Shrunken by the Anglophone world! Shrunken Derrida! Shrunken Deleuze! Shrunken Foucault!
Perhaps one day they’ll de-extinct European philosophy. Like Jurassic Park. The old philosophers will walk again.
The last European philosophy department! Like the last Neanderthals.
Work in Progress 