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- What the photographer who’s taken philosopher portraits thinks of philosophers https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2024/09/24/steve-pyke-interview-with-philosopher-portraits/ 20 comments
- Taco Bell and the Paradox of Ironic Appreciation https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2023/03/30/taco-bell-and-ironic-appreciation/ 127 comments philosophy
- "Trauma-Feeding" Why It's Not Okay to Exploit Trauma in Art https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2019/09/17/trauma-feeding-why-its-not-okay-to-exploit-trauma-in-art/ 243 comments philosophy
- The Philosophical Beauty of Black Mirror https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2019/06/26/the-philosophical-beauty-of-black-mirror/ 25 comments philosophy
- Trujillo: "AI art is art, and it is no less revolutionary than readymades, conceptual art, and photography. The sooner we get past these kneejerk reactions against it, the sooner we can get to the fascinating, novel issues it raises." https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2022/11/02/ai-art-is-art/ 239 comments philosophy
- The House Never Loses: How Microtransactions Exploit Video Game Players https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2021/02/12/the-house-never-loses-how-microtransactions-exploit-video-game-players/ 279 comments philosophy
- Instagram Filters for the Self: Autonomy and Internet "Aesthetics" https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2020/09/03/autonomy-and-internet-aesthetics/ 3 comments philosophy
- The NFT: A Wealth and Poverty Of Imagination https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2021/03/18/nfts-a-wealth-and-poverty-of-imagination/ 2 comments philosophy
- Beeple and Nothingness: Philosophy and NFTs https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2021/03/18/beeple-and-nothingness-philosophy-and-nfts/ 104 comments philosophy
- Burying the Dead Monuments https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2020/06/18/burying-the-dead-monuments/ 40 comments philosophy
- Circus and Philosophy: "[L]ack of first-person engagement is... unfortunate when the topic at hand crucially involves the perspective of the participant.. [we] attempt to explore this participation/theorizing gap. (Another aim is just to magic-trick undergrads into loving philosophy.)" https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2021/12/02/circus-and-philosophy-teaching-aristotle-through-juggling/ 2 comments philosophy
- The aesthetics and ethics of objectionable lyrics in pop music https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2018/10/10/artworld-roundtable-objectionable-lyrics/ 24 comments philosophy
- Vinyl doesn't sound better than digital audio - but it certainly sounds different. Many imagined differences between the two are actually distinctions of materiality versus immateriality. https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2021/04/07/an-audio-professionals-take-on-vinyl/ 381 comments philosophy
- What makes Kafka philosophical https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2018/11/08/what-makes-kafka-philosophical/ 78 comments philosophy
- The Metaphysics and Linguistics of Emoji https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2017/04/06/the-metaphysics-and-linguistics-of-emoji/ 81 comments philosophy
- Owning What Isn't: Copyright and Conceptual Art https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2019/02/14/owning-what-isnt-copyright-and-conceptual-art/ 44 comments philosophy
- Several philosophers tackle the question of whether we can separate the art from the artist https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2018/12/06/can-we-separate-the-art-from-the-artist/ 327 comments philosophy
- Seven philosophers of art pick the "five best" aesthetics papers of 2014 http://www.aestheticsforbirds.com/2015/06/afb-fab-flock-five-2014.html?m=1 14 comments philosophy