Sean T. Murphy

The anti-plane commitment is to be admired

Can't let the first anniversary of Edna O'Brien's death pass without this classic quote for The Paris Review Art of Fiction interview.

Idk—Kant just strikes me like the kind of guy that documented everything, all ‘evacuations’

Obviously they’re talking about bowel movements, right?

More needs to be said (outside Ireland) about Jack B. Yeats. His ‘Men of Destiny’ (1946) is below.

Really does

People pay a lot of money for falsehoods - Adorno (probably)

Wow—hardcore and Schopenhauer brought together! Sick

Philosophy and French (and Art History) were already eliminated from where I work 🙃

Frankfurt, On the Necessity of Ideals (to problematize the distinction between freedom and autonomy); Benson ‘Free Agency and Self-Worth’ or Calhoun, ‘Losing one’s Self’ (to highlight threats to agential control, like depression, demotivation, gaslighting, etc).

As someone thinking a lot about the way we can seem to share thoughts, feelings, existential dispensations, hunches with our favorite artists — something we have a sense of when it seems an artwork is about us, when it ‘gets’ us—I can’t wait to check this volume out.

Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy Consider just one of Nietzsche’s many veiled critical assessments of Schopenhauer’s—his great educator’s—ethics of compass...

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Here’s a review I wrote of an excellent edited volume investigating themes in Schopenhauer’s ethics. Not sure who of the authors I can shout out on here, but there’s at least @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social, @profcolin.bsky.social

Adrien Brody’s Art Is Horrendous. Why Are Some People Pretending It Isn’t? Adrien Brody's art, at Eden Gallery, is horrendous. Why has it been the subject of so much press?

www.artnews.com/art-news/art...

There’s nothing that makes me laugh harder than this franchise, and I think it’s because there’s nothing quite like laughing with your friends; and that to me is the guiding truth of this series. Put differently, nothing says I love you like batting a ball at your best pal’s privates.

I wish it were extremely alt, that’d be cool

I can see Scheuerman’s book on the Frankfurt School and the rule of law going great with those smokey beans

Oakeshott for sure

Last time, some new stuff included Madeline Martin-Seaver’s ‘Personal Beauty and Personal Agency’ & any of the chapters in Lopes, Nanay, Riggle Aesthetic Life and Why it Matters. Next time, for starters, I’m gonna assign a few videos from @politephilosopher.bsky.social ‘s series

Whenever I see this book cover I always think I’m seeing a great example of No Wave album art

This is how I feel watching Yellowjackets

Stacked

This is such a great interview for anyone looking for an overview of recent work on aesthetic value. Going right onto my aesthetics syllabus.

Delightful!

ASA Members at the 2025 APA Central Meeting - American Society For Aesthetics Are you going to the APA Central (Virtual) meeting February 20 - March 1, 2025?  Please support the ASA members on the program. The complete APA program is here. All times CST.

Come check out all the ASA sessions at the virtual Central later this month! We’ve got a great group presenting as part of the Group Sessions.
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Sell off the pieces, preferably one before the Four Nations break. Thank you Don.

Would second W’s self and the future as something it easily takes two lectures to chew on, and as with most W, several years to digest

I’ve thought a lot recently about the love of totes I’ve developed over the last 2-3 yrs. Adult version of band tees? Because of their affordability, they are also like little guilt-free presents. Maybe their value lies in how they combine self-expression & easy spending almost perfectly.

Nice, but also.. isn’t LP
suspiciously connected to the murder of Anna Mae Aquash? A recent documentary seems to want to make that point, thought the evidence is not very firm. Good doc though! Would recommend

Deadline extended to Jan 20!

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