Hannah Kim

Interview #71: How Hannah Kim Makes Money Writing In this interview, Hannah explains how she balances teaching with freelance writing, and why getting paid at all still feels refreshing after years in academia.

I was interviewed on freelancing while keeping up with teaching + research, what it was like learning how to pitch, and what I find refreshing + rewarding about freelancing! A cool series that I was grateful to partake in.

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Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar: “No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.”

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

Coming up: Could you reliably narrate the story of your life? Ray & @profjoshlandy.bsky.social tell tales with Helena de Bres from @wellesley.edu, author of "Philosophy in the First Person" – Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso....

#PhilSky #narrative #meaning

Toki Pona is a tiny invented language with only 120-140 words-- and the cutest script ever!

I wrote for Psyche's new Notes for Self series about metaphor in Toki Pona. When every word is meant to stretch, what happens to the literal-figurative distinction?

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Ohhhh indeed! Will watch soon

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

The University of Arizona rejects the compact and instead submits a Statement of Principles to the Department of Education: president.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...

The speaker is just amazing. Raising interesting questions, answering them in a prima facie reasonable way, looking at how this answer is historically determined and then taking a fresh look at things through a Daoist angle.

Thank you for these Qs and kind words (and apologies for seeing these late, thought the Qs were coming over email 😅)

I don't think it made it on to the handout but I do discuss family-resemblance approach as one anti-essentialist approach! And I don't know Jacobson's work so thank you for the pointer, will look!

I think that's right--I started with daoism because that's what I knew, but it didn't have to be Daoism and ideally a project like this would fold in other traditions too! At the same time I think Daoism is a good place to start because its metaphysics is so different. Allows for immediate contrasts

Excited to have @thisishannahkim.bsky.social at our next Global Philosophy Series talk. This is a hybrid event; Zoom details are available in the link.

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Wow, One Battle After Another was phenomenal. Incredible pacing, great soundtrack, A+ acting from everyone, timely issues. Just great storytelling all around. Go see it in theaters while it's playing!!

Linguistics

Wow, what a stunning poem

Nearly emailed it to you when I found it cuz I loved it so much haha!

Woot! 🙌

Wow thats stunning! Maybe Saturday morning!!

Just got to Purdue for the Modern Fiction Studies ~Cultural AI~ conference! Excited to present a new paper, coauthored w/ @aaronrhanlon.com, that LLM outputs constitute a new genre we're calling stochascript & learn what others are working on. Also excited about this super cute PPT template 🤓

-oid is a great suffix.
asteroid = looks like a star
factoid = looks like a fact
android = looks like a guy

This is a good heuristic for when you should and shouldn’t take academics seriously when they try to intervene in debates outside their specialty.

Do they have respect for the problem?

Aztec moral philosophy didn’t expect anyone to be a saint | Aeon Essays Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition, not least its acceptance that nobody is perfect

Interesting article on Aztec moral philosophy. Life on the slippery Earth: Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition, not least its acceptance that nobody is perfect. aeon.co/essays/aztec...

I'm obsessed with Cong caphe!!! Such good stuff.

Feeling the same about this book!! Laura Goode opened up the non-academic publishing world for me & we're so lucky that this book, which is based on the class she taught, now exists 💫

22 new papers up at @philimprint.bsky.social, including papers by @thisishannahkim.bsky.social, @catsaintcroix.bsky.social, @wiglet1981.bsky.social & @jweisber.bsky.social, @dellsen.bsky.social, @bartstreumer.bsky.social, and @aworsnip.bsky.social.

journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/

12 years ago, a friend brought a poem to my birthday party & it was love at first read. Wrote a paper about it in grad school & its descendent just came out with my favorite open access journal 🥹

If you're not familiar w/ Eliot's Four Quartets, read it now!! (Burnt Norton is the first quartet)

Thank you for reading!! Agreed that it's a phenomenal poem