Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen Iceburn Officer Jones And His Patrol Car Problems Oranssi Pazuzu Skinny puppy Stormo

Here's my review in Mind of Mazviita Chirimuuta's fantastic book The Brain Abstracted. @pessoabrain.bsky.social you'll be interested in this one! academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

Oooh this paper looks interesting. As someone who has had very few days without substantial pain for many years, the claim about inquisitive inertia strikes me as plausible. I would also say that there’s a self-directed form of inquisitive inertia too, but maybe they discuss that as well…

I miss having mental space to work on things I care about. Since my disability stuff kicked into higher gear, teaching overloads every semester, having a lot of advisees, and trying to swim through the hellscape of genAI has basically killed any potential for me to think creatively.

It's one of my favorite days of the semester...Val Plumwood day! www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09...

I just finished reading this super interesting book. It gave me a lot to think about, and I’d love to think more about the the subsequent rise of turntables, No Wave, Noise Rock, and experimental dub. Thanks to @vijayiyer.bsky.social for the heads up on this one press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

recent albums, a thread Fieldwork (Steve Lehman / V.I. / Tyshawn Sorey): THEREUPON (2025) pirecordings.lnk.to/thereupon

Two aesthetics things I’ve shamefully never read and need to read soon: Amiri Baraka, Blues People (I’ve read some Baraka, but never this book) Susanne Langer’s stuff on music (I’ve read some Langer, and maybe even something on music, but it’s been long enough that it’s as if I never read it)

Our special issue of Topoi on "Progress in radical embodiment" can be found here I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published link.springer.com/collections/...

TFW you realize that the syllabus that you wrote for philosophy majors needs to be adjusted to be a more introductory class (the university changed course numbering recently and I mistakenly assumed philosophy of music would be a higher level class than aesthetics—it’s a lower level class)

Aesthetics friends! What is good on the pursuit of aesthetic individuality, and the development of aesthetic selfhood? I know @nickriggle.bsky.social’s stuff. But what else is good?

love that like 70% of the answer is just to rightfully treat aesthetics as core lol

I accidentally closed a browser window that had 40 open tabs instead of the one window that I had separated out. All those tabs are lost, like tears in the rain…time to die…

I’m so stoked to see @billorcutt.bsky.social, Steve Shelley, and Ethan Miller tonight!

A draft syllabus for philosophy of cognitive science. Thoughts, comments, and suggestions appreciated! (The redacted one is a banger paper that I refereed that's not out yet but is accepted and should be out by next spring)

A draft syllabus for philosophy of cognitive science. Thoughts, comments, and suggestions appreciated! (The redacted one is a banger paper that I refereed that's not out yet but is accepted and should be out by next spring)

Listening to Max Roach, wearing a Sun Ra shirt, and heading to campus to try to convince my students that Adorno was right about jazz…life is weird

I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough

I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough

What paper would my aesthetics friends assign to undergrads with no background to give them a sense of Peter Kivy’s formalism about music?

What paper would my aesthetics friends assign to undergrads with no background to give them a sense of Peter Kivy’s formalism about music?

I am a fan of jazz, and I know that the history of jazz is a history of radical resistance and worldbuilding. But I'm convinced that Adorno was onto something important, and that his work on jazz isn't best understood as (potentially racist) ramblings from a person who didn't really understand jazz

How much of Adonro’s anti-Jazz take is entangled with the use of Jazz by the US State Department, and with the increasing visibility of Jazz as a cross-class consumable product? (That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)

I'm really struggling to figure out what to do in philosophy of music in the Spring, and need to decide ASAP. Do you have favorite papers on music that work well for students with little background in music or philosophy?

I'm really struggling to figure out what to do in philosophy of music in the Spring, and need to decide ASAP. Do you have favorite papers on music that work well for students with little background in music or philosophy?

I threw a wrench in the machine because it is haloween…so tomorrow in Aesthetics, we will discuss The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. Relatedly, if you don’t know this song, and if you like synthwave, it rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_DV...

As of yesterday, @lizscar.bsky.social and I’s new book, An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience is officially out! 🥳🥳🥳 You can order it here: www.routledge.com/An-Introduct...

I’m teaching Benjamin this week in aesthetics. It’s wild that “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction” was published in 1935, but that it captures so many features of the contemporary landscape…I’m really wondering how it will hit for the students…

It's normal to drink massive quantities of coffee as a way of reducing your experience of stress and anxiety, right?

We finished Sthiramati’s commentary on Vasubandhu’s Madhyāntavibhāgakārikā today in my Buddhist philosophy group. At points I felt like I was gaining a deep understanding of Yogācāra, and it was such an interesting perspective to work through! But sometimes it really ended up deep in the weeds…

My book that makes this argument, The Sonic Episteme, is 25% of right now in the Duke fall sale, get it here: www.dukeupress.edu/the-sonic-ep...

@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

The deadline for submitting an application to this job is this weekend! Please HMU if you have any questions about DC (right now or generally), Georgetown, or anything else else I might know something about

The deadline for submitting an application to this job is this weekend! Please HMU if you have any questions about DC (right now or generally), Georgetown, or anything else else I might know something about

B: Oh, that conference is in Baltimore, so I can just take the train up in the morning before my talk <notices that the talk is at 9:00, doesn't think about it> B: Huh...that means I have to catch the 7 am train, which means leaving the house by 6:30...maybe this wasn't the best idea I've ever had

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

The Third Entity: Participatory Sense-Making, Agency, and Attentional Dynamics osf.io/preprints/ps... New paper by @beckety.bsky.social and yours truly.

Does anyone know if there is a written history of crust punk as a genre. I know plenty of oral history, but I wonder if anyone has done any scholarly (or non-academic) writing about the genre

Today is one of my favorite days in Aesthetics. We are doing a paper by Adrian Piper!

If you know an awesome person who might not have seen that we are running a search at Georgetown, could you please pass this along. (I know every philosopher who is on the job market looks at PhilJobs constantly. But maybe you know someone who isn't on the job market but who would like to be at GU)

If you know an awesome person who might not have seen that we are running a search at Georgetown, could you please pass this along. (I know every philosopher who is on the job market looks at PhilJobs constantly. But maybe you know someone who isn't on the job market but who would like to be at GU)

I think we might wath Tommy Cash do his cover of 4'33" in aesthetics today youtu.be/fiuPIoHUDMY?...

There are a few papers that always provoke new thoughts for me when I read them. I’m teaching Danto’s “The Artworld” next week, and it’s one of those papers. It’s really such a killer paper, regardless of what you happen to think of the issues!

And we are live! "Wider Than the Sky: An Alternative to “Mapping” the World Onto the Brain" A.S. Barwich, S.J. Firestein, M. R. Dietrich European Journal of Neuroscience Open Access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #NeuroSky #neuro #neuroscience #philsci #hps #sts

Grading blue books is just as bad as I remembered it being…

A Buddhist philosopher, somewhere in the vicinity of Gandhara, in approximately the 4th Century CE, takes a deep hit from the bong: “Dude, dude, if you think about it, shadows are really freaking weird…”

Hey friends who do Buddhist philosophy, what are your favorite short and clear contemporary articles for teaching. My students aren't feeling like reading books this semester, so I'm changing up the syllabus!

Hey friends who do Buddhist philosophy, what are your favorite short and clear contemporary articles for teaching. My students aren't feeling like reading books this semester, so I'm changing up the syllabus!

This special issue includes a paper by a student whose dissertation I advised. Chris Kochevar is a kickass philosopher, and he's currently doing a postdoc on issues like these at Princeton. Keep your eyes out for further work from Chris! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'll be sharing this a few times over the next few weeks, but here's your first heads up that the Georgetown philosophy department is hiring philjobs.org/job/show/29710