Netflix’s new comedy/drama gets some key things wrong about higher education, including its “sendup” of woke culture. Continue reading
October 1, 2021
by Alex King
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Category Archives: Essays
August 27, 2021
by Aesthetics for Birds
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What Promising Young Woman Gets Right About Misogyny and Male Violence
Promising Young Woman is an unsatisfying film. But that’s what it gets deeply right about misogyny and patriarchy. Continue reading
August 19, 2021
by Aesthetics for Birds
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Astrology: Informative, Harmful, or Just Plain Fun?
Reading star signs does not reliably lead to knowledge, so why read them? Because it’s fun. Continue reading
August 5, 2021
by Aesthetics for Birds
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The Fluid Gaze: Wittgenstein, Western Dominance, and Cultural Porosity
How Wittgenstein can help us think about cultural identities and the male gaze Continue reading
June 30, 2021
by C. Thi Nguyen
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The Art Solipsist
Why would we ever spend our already scarce time and effort on difficult art? A lot of the time, it’s because we trust somebody. Continue reading
February 26, 2021
by Aesthetics for Birds
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Is Classical Music Racist? An Aesthetic Approach
True diversification will ultimately require aesthetic integration to create something new that appeals to a diverse constituency. Continue reading
June 18, 2020
by Aesthetics for Birds
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Burying the Dead Monuments
Removing statues is powerfully symbolic; how we treat them in their death is too. Continue reading
March 19, 2020
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Getting Past Form: on the Value of Literary Ideas
What follows is a guest post by Patrick Fessenbecker. In a recent column in The New York Times, Ross Douthat contends that English professors aren’t having the right kind of arguments. Reflecting on the analysis of the decline of the … Continue reading
March 2, 2020
by Aesthetics for Birds
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Sor Juana’s Rough Heroines: Cognitive Immoralism in Primero Sueño
What follows is a guest post by Adriana Clavel-Vázquez and Sergio A. Gallegos. Against all odds, Novohispanic nun Juana Inés de la Cruz gained widespread recognition as a writer in her lifetime. Today, she is also recognized as a distinguished … Continue reading
February 13, 2020
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What is Art? Let Cognitive Science Help You Answer That Question
What follows is a guest post by Shen-yi Liao, Aaron Meskin, and Joshua Knobe. They offer an overview and summary of the ideas in their new paper, “Dual Character Art Concepts,” just out in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. (Non-paywalled version available … Continue reading
