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doctor of philosophy / lecturer at utrecht university / co-editor-in-chief at https://aestheticinvestigations.eu / socialist at https://socialisten.org

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clintunplugged , to histodons
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name a more complex conflict than the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920)

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forget Game of Thrones, they should turn this into a tv series

clintunplugged , to philosophy
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serious (i.e. non-rhetorical) question: why do people consider Slavoj a ? What is about his belief system?

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I understand that he happens to call himself a communist, but his definition of communism expressly excludes both authoritarian communism as well as (democratic) left communism and instead insists on his own idiosyncratic definition which doesn't really relate to any other political philosophy I am aware of

(screenshot from Zizek's wikipedia page)

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@keenan @politicaltheory @philosophy perhaps I'm policing this boundary too much (obviously, even if Zizek is not actually a communist, it hardly follows that he is not actually a leftist)

still... it's an intrigueing question to me, because so much of his public persona seems to turn on being "a leftist, but...". If the leftist part of it actually falls away, the rest of it is not really that thought-provoking any more.

clintunplugged , to poetry
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https://cpverdonschot.xyz/blog/translating-the-oppressed/
New blogpost, on and @poetry

What kind of lived experience is it necessary for a translator to have? Is it possible for white authors to translate Black poetry? I argue that while, certainly, lived experience is important for poetry, this does not render translators incapable simply in virtue of their social location.

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Mystery of ancient Roman dodecahedron baffling experts as it goes on display in UK

"Experts said they were ‘no closer’ to finding out what the mysterious Roman object actually was"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/roman-object-mysterious-uk-b2536326.html

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@bibliolater @archaeodons 12-sided dice for playing ancient Roman tabletop rpgs

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it's probably also to do with the slightly annoying social media habit I've picked up of not capitalising letters when I should

clintunplugged , to philosophy
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The "Lives of Philosophers"-tag on @DailyNous includes only deaths

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clintunplugged , to philosophy
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clintunplugged , to philosophy
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you may not agree with Jodi Dean's position. but the attempt to silence here, punish her for speaking about her viewpoints, is beyond the pale. anyone who cares about or should sign this petition

https://chng.it/TVyrdXcTNv

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clintunplugged , to philosophyofscience
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some thoughts on and @philosophyofscience

I've been teaching the philosophy of science even though this is not at all my expertise, but today it struck me that the discipline is similar to aesthetics in several interesting ways.

For one thing, both are latecomers among philosophical fields of study; while both have roots going back to Plato and Aristotle, these sources are part of the disciplines' prehistory. Their real origins lie rather in the modern age.

clintunplugged , to philosophy
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attention all stoners, feallsanachd is back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba9TmIWkLpU

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clintunplugged , to philosophy
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a colleague who is involved with this conference told me that the Ethics Lab in Yaoundé is looking for donations. help if you can!

https://www.steunleiden.nl/project/ethicslab

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some discussions made me think...
is animal ethics really something where philosophy can progress?

like all the "newer" arguments, feel more or less similar to the "old" ones.

the only real way I see is to interdisciplinary combine it. Like "Zoopolis" did with political theory.

do you disagree with me?

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I like Crary and Gruen's Animal Crisis for their critique of traditional animal ethics (Singer/Regan/etc.) which voices concern with the abstractive perspective borrowed from liberal egalitarianism and for voicing an alternative way of thinking about our relationship to other animals. this, to me, constitutes progress in animal ethics

but perhaps you disagree?

clintunplugged , to philosophy
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fun fact: when the philosopher Ernst died in 1977, he was so beloved by students that the local student union renamed the university "Ernst-Bloch Universität", a name which they insisted upon until 2017 when students complained that not all of them shared Bloch's political views.

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instead the university is still (partly) named after Eberhard I of Tübingen, a man who, in a press release, the university refers to as "not an antisemite, but who did have, along with the majority of church and worldly elites of his day, an anti-Jewish attitude" (source: FAZ, 7th July 2022, page 6, cited on Wikipedia)

I swear man, the Germans are not alright

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard_Karls_Universit%C3%A4t_T%C3%BCbingen#Kontroverse_um_Universit%C3%A4tsnamen

clintunplugged , to philosophy
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, objectively the most cogent candidate running for the US presidency this year, says: "the condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak".

In this snippet from The Examined Life (2008, dir. Astra Taylor), prof. West clarifies that he inherits the thought from . But I wonder: is it a direct quote? Where does it appear in Adorno's corpus? Certainly it fits well within his philosophy, but I can't seem to find the exact passage...

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clintunplugged , to philosophy
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Does anybody have a clue what kind of rash could be referring to in the bit I highlighted here (from Minima Moralia, fragment "Health unto death").

Was there a kind of strange make-up that people used in USA (where Adorno wrote this book)?

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clintunplugged , to philosophy
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Picked up a copy of Albrecht Wellmer's recently. It is dedicated "For the ".

I seem to recall this was a or perhaps movement, but I can find nothing about it online...

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Dedication: "Für die Eisbären"

clintunplugged , to philosophy
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In ", , and fabulous", A.W. Eaton argues that life model sessions can serve as a for fat bodies, a place where fat people can achieve creative autonomy and feel celebrated.

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https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/article/view/16942

clintunplugged , to philosophy
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Photographic : what to do with so-called 'physical type' photos? Can we treat them as portraits instead of mere stereotypes? Does this change the nature of the photos? Michelle Green and Hans Maes offer clarity on these issues

https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/article/view/16888

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clintunplugged , to philosophy
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Why is the relation between and uniquely suited for the production of ? In his contribution to Aesthetic Investigations 6 (2), Tzachi Zamir considers four questions arising from the model/artist relationship, in order to shed light on it. @philosophy

https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/article/view/14686

clintunplugged , to philosophy
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Does it matter who poses? In her article, Aurélie Debaene argues that it does: models are not mere props in the creation of artworks, understanding their contribution impacts our understanding of a work, and the process of modelling also has value considered for itself. @philosophy
https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/article/view/16890

clintunplugged , to philosophy
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How is a typically made? In 'Constructing and using the portrait sitting as an art-historical research object', Dawn Kanter argues against the prevalent view that it is solely up to the who creates the portrait. Drawing on the art history of portraits in the National Portrait Gallery (London, UK), Kanter shows that the is often just as important in impact on the final result. @philosophy @arthistory

https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/article/view/16887

clintunplugged , to philosophy
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Aesthetic Investigations is out just in time to ring in the new year! This issue: 'Models and Sitters' a special issue on the and of

https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/issue/view/1252

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@philosophy
features contributions by Dawn Kanter, Aurélie Debaene, Tzachi Zamir, Michelle Green & Hans Maes, A.W. Eaton, Peg Brand Weiser and Sue Spaid

Image credit: Nude Models Posing for a Painting Class 3 (1890) by Adolf de Meyer, image in the public domain, sourced via Wikimedia Commons

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@philosophy Over the coming weeks, I will be using the hashtag to highlight some of these contributions. If you would like to stay updated (or you'd rather not see these posts in your timeline), consider following (or blocking) this hashtag.

clintunplugged , to philosophy
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the Anglo-Saxons have invaded EJP, I repeat, the Anglo-Saxons have invaded EJP!

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clintunplugged , to poetry
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sharing a poem from the birdsite because it is heartbreakingly beautiful; a poem by Refaat Alareer, who was killed yesterday in an Israeli airstrike: "If I must die"

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@poetry
if you found this poem beautiful, you can also download the ebook version of the anthology Light in Gaza (edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Michael Merryman-Lotze), which includes Alareer's essay "Gaza Asks: When Shall This Pass?", for free (!) from Haymarket Books

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1885-light-in-gaza

clintunplugged , to philosophy
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Old book find! Was flicking through this one (a collection of writings bij Leibniz, German language, published 1906), when I found that nobody ever bothered to cut open the folia in the back. How cool is that! @philosophy @bookstodon

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clintunplugged OP ,
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@philosophy @bookstodon also: Leibniz, clearly not appreciated for his ethical and legal philosophy

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@philosophy @bookstodon this book just keeps on giving... Found the old response card (bookstores would put these in books so that you could order other books from them through the mail). This one looks very old! Given that the book I found it in was published 1906, there's a good chance this is pre-WW2

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clintunplugged , to philosophy
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I'm puzzled today by ordinary language philosophy, the original 1950s Oxford variety: supposedly, Ryle, Austin, and others took their cues from Wittgenstein, but, contrary to the entire thrust of Wittgenstein's thinking, they never relinquished the idea that it makes sense to think about the meaning of words from the abstractive, distortive, and privileged confines of the Oxford college halls

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVQrpok9KPA

clintunplugged , to poetry
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I'm doing a seminar in a few weeks on and , and obviously, his reading of is on the menu. However! I've never quite warmed to Heidegger's readings of Hölderlin, nor indeed his understanding of poetry in general. Does anyone know of a good (published, peer-reviewed) criticism that challenges Heidegger's reading of Hölderlin head-on?

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clintunplugged , to philosophy
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it occurs to me that the most persistent prejudice among (contemporary) philosophers and people in general when it comes to philosophical , is NOT subjectivism (roughly: the idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder). Rather, it is formalism, the eye that beauty is a matter purely of a thing's formal features (composition, structure, tone, feel) and nothing to do with its substantive features (what it signifies, what it is about, etc.)

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@philosophy
a colleague recently mentioned that this idea, aesthetic formalism, is quite recent when it comes to thinking about the relevant way to interact with art/beautiful things.

the colleague in question mentioned Clive Bell as the main author who popularised the idea

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@philosophy I might add that it is also, perhaps, a quite localised idea, deriving from a certain regime of perception prevalent in Western (European/American) societies and not necessarily helpful when it comes to understanding, for instance, Soviet art, African art, etc.

josep_gasol , (edited ) to philosophy
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Any bibliographic recommendations where I can find related to ? I am considering writing my master's thesis on this topic starting from Iris Marion Young and incorporating Martha Nussbaum and Tom Regan as possible starting points. Thank you very much 📚 @philosophy

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I'm not sure whether they touch upon the theme of structural injustice specifically, but I highly recommend Animal Crisis by Alice Crary and Lori Gruen. They make an effort to relate animal activism to other kinds of struggle (anti-racist/feminism/disabled/etc..). That's at least a holistic approach which is sorely missing from much animal ethics

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