Just wanted to share this wonderful news: The Lebowitz Prize went to aesthetics for the first time in its history. Congratulations to @domlopes.bsky.social and Samantha! I can't wait to see what they do together! www.pbk.org/2025-lebowit...

The Awesomeness of Bad Art I love bad art. Gather some friends and create some bad music. Cruise in a car covered with graffiti doodles. Hand a five-year-old crayons and free time and see what weirdness emerges. Something worth celebrating happens. Although the art is "bad" in one sense -- 1/

New paper forthcoming in Mind--my response to Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social and Zed Adams's paper on aesthetic discourse (“The Hope of Agreement: Against Vibing Accounts of Aesthetic Judgment," Mind, 2023). philpapers.org/rec/RIGCKT?f...

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Hats off to Alex for organizing an excellent conference!!

What's up with the British monopoly on really good intellectual biography? All of the recent ones I've loved are by British authors: I Am Dynamite!, Metaphysical Animals (ok, Clare Mac Cumhaill is Irish but educated in Scotland and working in England), Parfit, The Murder of Professor Schlick ... 1/3

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I’m having way too much fun working on aesthetic ranking at the moment. This has to be the worst high-profile ranking I’ve come across—just diabolical putting Jay-Z at #1, Lil Wayne over Tupac, Drake over Eminem?! What are some other bad lists??

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WANTED: a list of philosophy or philosophy adjacent books that make good gifts to interested non-philosophers. #philsky

Street art??

I have added quite a few people to my philosophy starter pack If we were mutuals on the other place or if we are mutuals here and you'd like to be added let me know! go.bsky.app/8Qvnsgb

"Topic x is surprisingly neglected" is the grownup version of "for millennia philosophers have debated...".

starter pack for aesthetics!!

So much film criticism is fundamentally snide. Even if a critic is praising a film, one is ready for that little insult to appear, that smug reminder of the critic's power. Matt Strohl's (@strohltopia.bsky.social) new book, Hard to Watch, feels like film criticism set free,where the reminder of 1/3

maybe of interest to some of my followers: I wrote a little piece for @eschwitz.bsky.social's blog on the aesthetics of wearing band t-shirts of bands you don't know. I elaborated on it for a Bloomsbury "case studies" article. Here: www.bloomsburyphilosophylibrary.com/article?doci...

I am writing a paper on aesthetic ranking and I am having to write "Tomatometer" a lot and I am just not enjoying that really.

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Thank you for sharing, in the spirit of the book. ❤️

But the pleasant bureaucrats *should* party a little more.

Hoping to post on here more moving forward. High five me with a like/follow.

I wrote about the history of aesthetics: Under the Net https://ksetiya.substack.com/p/the-end-of-aesthetic-life

Settle the score, mellow the vibes. Join us to argue about arguing about art!! Friday, April 26, 5PM, The New School. event.newschool.edu/thevibesareoff

I wrote about Kant's dinner parties: Under the Net https://ksetiya.substack.com/p/whos-afraid-of-immanuel-kant

publishing in philosophy--the last three journals I submitted papers to:* Journal 1: submission to conditional acceptance = 1 year; 1 year later, still waiting on proofs; publication date unknown *these are all "general" high-traffic journals

Philosophically drifting through a fascinating and polarizing movie with @cowspod.com and @strohltopia.bsky.social. “This is my Mexico.”

FYI I uploaded a copy of "Autonomy and Aesthetic Valuing," forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

Why does writing self-promotional social media posts feel so awkward? Buy my book and find out! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

A big announcement for the academic philosophy world. youtu.be/IbYb4mcvqII

My paper, "The Ontology and Aesthetics of Genre" was just accepted to Philosophy Compass! In it, I discuss the similarities and differences between various theories, raise a lot of problems for all of them, and articulate my own practice-based account of genre! PREPRINT: philpapers.org/rec/MALTOA

I (finally) uploaded a copy of "Aesthetic Value and the Practice of Aesthetic Valuing," forthcoming in Phil Review if they ever send me the copyedits.

Coming soon on Cows in the Field! Check cowspod.com for updates and show notes! @nickriggle.bsky.social, @emilystjams.bsky.social, @splicedpersonality.bsky.social, @johndevore.bsky.social

For next week's re-broadcast with @nickriggle.bsky.social from the University of San Diego, author of "On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck," we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Shereen Adel, to ask what people on the street thought was awesome: youtu.be/JmRu-Jbszn4

Excited to share a piece defending "Aesthetic Blame," now published online (and open access!) in the Journal of the APA! So many people helped me out with this one, and I have nothing but praise for them! doi.org/10.1017/apa....

This Beauty came out one year ago today.

New paper forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. I critically explore and develop Thi Nguyen's engagement theory of aesthetic valuing and argue that my aesthetic communitarianism handles things a bit better, with a nice upshot: the two principles are fundamentally the same.

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DON’T KILL MY VIBES Cool and challenging new paper in Mind, open access, by @nathansen.bsky.social and @allyoucanparty.bsky.social critiquing my theory of aesthetic discourse. Here is the paper they’re responding to: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

hey...this is a review I wrote of a fun little book by Lopes, Nanay, & Riggle. It's also my first attempt to say something super general and high level about metal aesthetics... academic.oup.com/jaac/advance...