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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

Women's History Month is the perfect time to listen to this series I designed about the overlooked and underrated contributions of women in philosophy.

From Hypatia to Hildegard, Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Midgley, learn about philosophy's unsung heroines!

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Emmie Malone, Practicing Screaming: Aesthetic Explanations, Aesthetic Value, and the Screamed Vocals Problem - PhilPapers There are many paradoxes of aversive or painful art. We enjoy being disgusted, scared, sad, and stressed in engaging with art in a way that we don’t, for instance, on the ...

found out that my article, "Practicing Screaming: Aesthetic Explanations, Aesthetic Value, and the Screamed Vocals Problem," was accepted in Contemporary Aesthetics! It's all about metal, hardcore, and screamo (and secretly metaphilosophy)! You can read the preprint here! philpapers.org/rec/MALPSA-8

This seems to raise the question of how we figure out what the right level of explanation is. I argue that aesthetic value is largely overdetermined across and within levels. There is no downtown of aesthetic value! Instead, I offer some pragmatic constraints on what a good aesthetic explanation is.

In it, I analyze the function and value of musical screaming in hardcore, metal, and screamo. I argue that looking closely at the screamed vocals problem illustrates why we should embrace 'kivy-core' in aesthetics, focusing our explanations at the genre practice level more than the artform level.

Emmie Malone, Practicing Screaming: Aesthetic Explanations, Aesthetic Value, and the Screamed Vocals Problem - PhilPapers There are many paradoxes of aversive or painful art. We enjoy being disgusted, scared, sad, and stressed in engaging with art in a way that we don’t, for instance, on the ...

found out that my article, "Practicing Screaming: Aesthetic Explanations, Aesthetic Value, and the Screamed Vocals Problem," was accepted in Contemporary Aesthetics! It's all about metal, hardcore, and screamo (and secretly metaphilosophy)! You can read the preprint here! philpapers.org/rec/MALPSA-8

Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

A footnote from Ludwig Buchner's Man in the Past, Present, and Future (1868). It reads: According to an English writer, J. W. Jackson, (see Anthropological Review, 1867,) the existing man in the view of the developmental theory is only the commencement of a new Zoological order or of the biped and bird-type of the Mammalia. He will, therefore hereafter, become more covered with hair or feathers, divide into different species and genera, and in his perfected state will only inhabit suns, of which the planets are merely the embryos. In his moral nature man is not the fulfillment of the Divine idea of manhood, but only a divine preparation for this. "There is method in this madness !"

um, okay...

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

The Riley Gaines Act says 1st is the worst now actually & 5th is the best & if you get 5th then your parents have to take you out to get ice cream afterwards & the coach has to take you out to a pizza party & no one else who got 5th is allowed to come, just you because you’re the most special girl.

They're going to lie about birth control just as they did with trans people.

Vanderbilt Ends Adult Trans Surgeries, More Clinics Cut Trans Youth Care — Assigned Leading Off: A wave of clinic closures creep towards the erosion of adult transition care in the US, with transmasculine underwear also threatened with restrictions as trans people are targeted in al...

Access to gender-affirming care for trans youth is increasingly restricted as more clinics turn their backs on young patients in need.

Also, adult care looks increasingly under threat. Get prepared for what's coming - read Leading Off this week.

The ‘Antifa Scare’ Goes on Trial in North Texas As nine of the "Prairieland 19" face their days in court, the broader constitutional rights of left-wing activists may hang in the balance.

Our top story, from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: Wearing black, owning zines, using the encrypted messaging app Signal. The broader constitutional rights of left-wing activists may hang in the balance as the government builds its "antifa conspiracy."

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker.

Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

A Venn diagram. The left circle contains example topics in aesthetics (nature, personal beauty, the everyday) and the right circle contains example topics in the philosophy of art (ontology of art, interpretation, ethics and art). The area of overlap contains the example topic “art appreciation”

I show my students this very non-exhaustive venn diagram and we about the differences and where they overlap. I’m doing my part!

Florida Implements Stronger Thought Policing - Daily Nous With measures borrowed from history's totalitarian regimes, political leaders in Florida are taking unprecedented steps to indoctrinate students and prevent them from learning about the world in ways ...

In sociology courses at Florida’s public colleges, classroom discussions of institutions that “oppress persons of color” and several other topics are now forbidden by the government.

Dreams remixes, by Ethan Hein 12 track album

For your listening enjoyment, twelve remixes of "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac that are varying degrees of unhinged ethanhein.bandcamp.com/album/dreams...

I don’t work on it, but Lizzy Cantalamessa’s work on philosophy of humor has convinced me that we could learn a lot from it (about metalinguistic negotiation, etc.), and that’s why a bottom up approach is so great!

I know!! love that I have never had to apply any work on ‘core aesthetics issues’ to anything I’m working on. I’ve never even needed to apply philosophy of music to philosophy of popular music lol. I’m free to let the practice guide my commitments and my theorizing?!

aesthetics really benefitted from the fact that we never agreed to call philosophy of the arts “applied aesthetics” the way that calling it “applied ethics” cooked in a top-down approach where people think the project is the application of general theory to the particular.

This is all to say that I hope, for our sake, that it includes you!

I take it that analyt. aesthetics is going through what phil sci went through in this way. In the end, it’s easier for me to say what the philosophy of popular music should be than what it is, and that’s theorizing that deals with and takes seriously pop music practice in a way that matters.

I think the boundaries are really unclear. especially as your work gets more tied to practice. I get accused pretty often of doing popular music studies or doing sociology of music either because I think theorizing should be constrained by practice or because I’m not being prescriptive enough 🤷🏻‍♀️

"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.

I would be very interested in reading a draft! I’ve had an article on chasers percolating in the background that I will one day get to writing

Every administrator, every board of trustees, every president, chancellor who bent the knee to Trump and his cronies should immediately be stripped of their position and driven from their institutions.

Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ... TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

Emmie Malone, Book Review: Theodore Gracyk's Making Meaning in Popular Song: Philosophical Essays - PhilArchive Now is a great time to be working in philosophy of popular music. Work is currently being done on rap and hip-hop, pop, E.D.M., country, metal, and punk. Besides this, the ...

My review of Ted Gracyk’s book, Making Meaning in Popular Song, is now forthcoming in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism! You can read the preprint here: philarchive.org/rec/MALBRT-11

Sharing this over here to ask as well because it’s not metal/core/whatever