Lizzo playing James Madison’s crystal flute is a success story for preservationists. Kim Kardashian wearing Marilyn Monroe’s dress is not. Continue reading

December 2, 2022
by Aesthetics for Birds
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December 2, 2022
by Aesthetics for Birds
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Lizzo playing James Madison’s crystal flute is a success story for preservationists. Kim Kardashian wearing Marilyn Monroe’s dress is not. Continue reading
November 2, 2022
by Aesthetics for Birds
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If readymades and photography are art, then so is art made by DALL-E, Midjourney, and the rest. Continue reading
September 15, 2022
by Aesthetics for Birds
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An analysis of the intricacies of how alternative text is used to communicate fundamentally visual information in a linguistic mode. Continue reading
February 11, 2022
by Aesthetics for Birds
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In making art, we make ourselves into something beyond what our original authors may have intended. Continue reading
January 27, 2022
by Aesthetics for Birds
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A YouTube series features interviews with philosophers about their work in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Continue reading
January 13, 2022
by Aesthetics for Birds
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Six scholars discuss the complicated history of Hagia Sophia and its recent conversion to a mosque Continue reading
October 22, 2021
by utahphilosoraptor
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If Chappelle’s art dines on controversy, cancellation serves it dessert. Continue reading
April 14, 2021
by Aesthetics for Birds
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Digital blackface is actively skewing our perception of what blackness contains, and thus what possibilities are open to all of us. Continue reading
March 31, 2021
by Aesthetics for Birds
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To understand how ‘Caliphate’ and ‘Reply All’ have gone wrong, we need to understand how the conventions and function of podcasting have created distinctive forms of media. Continue reading
March 23, 2021
by Matt Strohl
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Aesthetic disagreements tend to go awry when we approach them as though the ultimate goal is to win. They will go better if we approach them with humility. Continue reading