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Sean T. Murphy

@seantmurphyy.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Thinking about German philosophy, aesthetics, understanding (ourselves & other people), and modernism.

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That’s a lot of desk copies! Congrats David :)

20.11.2025 06:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack Technology changes usβ€”and it is currently changing us for the worse.

The short-form video has brought about a second age of orality. That’s partly because phones are addicting, and partly because America’s ruling class wants it that way.

29.10.2025 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5

@emmiemalone.bsky.social and @seantmurphyy.bsky.social gave killer papers on hardcore and emo thus morning. I feel lucky that I got to be on a panel with them. And it’s cool to remember that people are doing kickass work on things that I will be thinking about for a long time

23.10.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

You brought so much positive energy and deep knowledge to the panel! It was a treat presenting with you

25.10.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My morning routine is ruined. Classes cancelled.

20.10.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€˜We have also freed our study from the superfluous ballast of citations and references, for they lack any direct methodological significance in studies of a nonhistorical nature […]. For the qualified reader, they are unnecessary, and for the unqualified, useless’. Dang, Bakhtin goes hard. #Goals

17.10.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Meanwhile, Strawson is off deducing the affective structure and emotional contours of interpersonal life from the atmosphere of an Oxford seminar room. Don’t get me going…

27.09.2025 03:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My grad school work routine. Print 5 articles on some new exciting debate. Read the first half of 1 at the coffeeshop. Head to the pub. Never look at them again.

26.09.2025 05:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The way she cultivates a sense and feeling of a very particular place in these storiesβ€”inland FL with its muggy mysteries and dark sideβ€”is so excellent

29.08.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ”₯ πŸ”₯ πŸ”₯

27.08.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The anti-plane commitment is to be admired

30.07.2025 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

27.07.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Idkβ€”Kant just strikes me like the kind of guy that documented everything, all β€˜evacuations’

15.07.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Obviously they’re talking about bowel movements, right?

15.07.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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More needs to be said (outside Ireland) about Jack B. Yeats. His β€˜Men of Destiny’ (1946) is below.

15.07.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really does

15.07.2025 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

09.07.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wowβ€”hardcore and Schopenhauer brought together! Sick

08.07.2025 04:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Philosophy and French (and Art History) were already eliminated from where I work πŸ™ƒ

01.07.2025 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

23.06.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

18.06.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

13.06.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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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?

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05.06.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

04.06.2025 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

30.05.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

18.04.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oakeshott for sure

10.04.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Last time, some new stuff included Madeline Martin-Seaver’s β€˜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 β€˜s series

05.04.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

05.04.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is how I feel watching Yellowjackets

04.04.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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