Sean T. Murphy

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

We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack Technology changes us—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.

@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

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

My morning routine is ruined. Classes cancelled.

‘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

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…

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.

The way she cultivates a sense and feeling of a very particular place in these stories—inland FL with its muggy mysteries and dark side—is so excellent

🔥 🔥 🔥

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?

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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