Too much travelling...

Who is more representative these days, Socrates and Kant, who hardly ever left their Athens and Koeningsberg, or Wittgenstein, who seemed to be unable to live in the same place for too long? Cheap airlines, a more international community, a de-Europeization of philosophy... all factors that have made us academics with this strange job (philosophy) travel around too frequently, for too short times. Three days in Pescara (Italian Philosophical Association annual meeting), a weekend in Guarcino, three days in Salerno for two talks, then Bari for some further work, then Oxford, then Freiburg, then ALife in Bloomington, then ECAP in Norway, then Chicago, then...
Better learn to reflect while churning miles (a bit like having one's best thoughts while shaving) or start saying more nos than yes.

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