Philosopher Evan Malone discusses the aesthetic import of a tabletop RPG Continue reading

March 10, 2022
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March 10, 2022
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Philosopher Evan Malone discusses the aesthetic import of a tabletop RPG Continue reading
February 23, 2022
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Philosopher Nick Riggle reflects on Yoko Ono’s famous performance work “Cut Piece” Continue reading
February 11, 2022
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In making art, we make ourselves into something beyond what our original authors may have intended. Continue reading
December 16, 2021
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Six thinkers across different disciplines discuss the artistic, philosophical, and social legacy of the inimitable composer Stephen Sondheim. Continue reading
November 4, 2021
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The philosopher and podcaster behind Hi-Phi Nation talks about his creative process, trends, and whether podcasts are really art. Continue reading
October 28, 2021
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An incident at Slave Play shows what is wrong with philosophers’ obsession with distinctions Continue reading
October 22, 2021
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If Chappelle’s art dines on controversy, cancellation serves it dessert. Continue reading
February 23, 2021
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This is entry #73 in our ongoing 100 Philosophers, 100 Artworks, 100 Words Series.
October 22, 2016
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Kendall Jenner admits that “being a supermodel is great” but she believes, deep down, that she is an artist. In this video Kendall Jenner shows off her “research” on performance art. See for yourself:
September 28, 2016
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What follows is a guest post by Byron Davies (Harvard). This column is on the 18th century Swiss Francophone philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the contemporary Spanish director Víctor Erice, especially the latter’s films The Spirit of the Beehive and El Sur. It is tempting to think that cinema somehow has a prehistory in philosophy. That is, among those philosophers who pre-date the invention of cinema, there are some whose very spirits seem to inform the medium itself, making their connections to particular films, even if only implicit, seem especially fated or necessary. Strikingly, these are often philosophers somehow opposed to theater and “theatricality,” and known for harshly depicting the effects of sitting isolated in the dark. (The well-worn comparisons between cinema and Plato’s Myth of the Cave come to mind.) Among such philosophers is surely Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an eighteenth-century philosopher who asked what it is to be spectator of, as well as a spectacle for, other persons. For … Continue reading