Most of us will never be superstars, but movies inspire us to pursue stardom. Is there anything wrong with that? Continue reading

October 5, 2023
by Aesthetics for Birds
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October 5, 2023
by Aesthetics for Birds
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Most of us will never be superstars, but movies inspire us to pursue stardom. Is there anything wrong with that? Continue reading
December 2, 2021
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Why one professor uses circus skills to teach students about philosophy Continue reading
December 29, 2020
by Alex King
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“All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.” Continue reading
May 8, 2018
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What follows is a post in our ongoing collaborative series with the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. This is based on a new article by Henry Pratt, “Are You Ready for Some Football? A Monday Night Documentary?” When I lived in Wisconsin, I had a large, hairy housemate named Brian who watched a lot of hockey and football on TV. Sometimes he’d even do so shirtless to avoid stains from marinara sauce. It turns out that, unbeknownst to me at the time, he’d seen thousands of documentaries and was something of an expert on them. Wait—what? Quoth Gregory Currie, in his prominent article on the category: “game shows turn out to be documentaries about their participants, chat shows documentaries about the interviewer and interviewees, and sports programs documentaries about the activities of the athletes” (294).