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September Post: Art, Tech, and Time

"I think that our desire to make history about the present all the time actually kind of robs it of something. We miss the point of just...

What I talk about when I talk about Aesthetics

"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; ...

Diversity, Beliefs, Democracy and Art

"I should make my own position as a philosopher clear. I'm not a relativist and I'm not an absolutist in the senses I have been talking...

June post: Cinephelia and Summer

"There is nothing quite like that moment when the lights go down and all our hopes are concentrated on the screen." Pauline Kael Readers...

May Post: Philosophy and Daily Life

In April I wrote at far greater length than I perhaps should have about Immanuel Kant. It immediately reminded me of Tim Scanlon's joke...

March Post: The Reception of Art and Personal Experience

We like March. His Shoes are Purple — He is new and high — Makes he Mud for Dog and Peddler. Makes he Forests dry. Knows the Adder Tongue...

On the Aesthetics of our Snapshots as History Turns

The month of January of course makes me think about the passage of time - both within single eras and from one era to the discontinuous...

Styles of Back to School Prose

With September comes thoughts of endeavors that get categorized in our culture as intellectual pursuits. Part of this is of course the...