aesthetics

Episode 185: Private Parts

How can we talk, or think, about “private parts” in a philosophical way?

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Episode 183: Cringe

This is gonna be awkward.

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Episode 182: Tragic Temporality (with Sean Kirkland)

Sean Kirkland unpacks living on the edge of “was” and “not yet.”

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Episode 177: El roto, Lo huachafo, Lo jodido (with Carlos Amador)

Carlos Amador on Latin American aesthetics, precarity, and what it means to be completely f*cked.

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Episode 173: Unruly Identity (with Falguni Sheth)

Raising a glass to the misfits, rebels, and rule-breakers!

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Episode 172: Ambiguity

When nothing is clear, how do we decide?

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Episode 170: Judgment

Who gets to judge right and wrong? And on what grounds?

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Episode 168: Authority

Is ChatGPT usurping the authority of the “Author”? Or is it just a pretender to the throne?

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Episode 164: The Significance Impulse (with Josh Glasgow)

What if our cosmic unimportance is itself not all that important?

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Episode 144: The Sublime

The ocean and space and “Ode to Joy” are sublime, of course… but what about an excellent lentil soup? In a confusing twist of etymology, where one would expect “sub” to mean “below,” in the word “sublime” it indicates something above or even beyond. We use it as a superlative, but a superlative of what?…

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