Hannah Kim
@thisishannahkim.bsky.social
Philosophy professor, Univ of Arizona 🌵 executive team at SEP 👩💻 thinking about fiction, poetry, music, movies, time, VR, AI & East Asian thought 🇰🇷🇰🇵 freelancer for philosophy, arts & culture ✌️
www.hannahkimphilosophy.com
www.hannahkimphilosophy.com
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Coming up: Could you reliably narrate the story of your life? Ray & @profjoshlandy.bsky.social tell tales with Helena de Bres from @wellesley.edu, author of "Philosophy in the First Person" – Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso....
#PhilSky #narrative #meaning
#PhilSky #narrative #meaning
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Coming up: Could you reliably narrate the story of your life? Ray & @profjoshlandy.bsky.social tell tales with Helena de Bres from @wellesley.edu, author of "Philosophy in the First Person" – Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso....
#PhilSky #narrative #meaning
#PhilSky #narrative #meaning
Toki Pona is a tiny invented language with only 120-140 words-- and the cutest script ever!
I wrote for Psyche's new Notes for Self series about metaphor in Toki Pona. When every word is meant to stretch, what happens to the literal-figurative distinction?
psyche.co/notes-to-sel...
I wrote for Psyche's new Notes for Self series about metaphor in Toki Pona. When every word is meant to stretch, what happens to the literal-figurative distinction?
psyche.co/notes-to-sel...
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Toki Pona is a tiny invented language with only 120-140 words-- and the cutest script ever!
I wrote for Psyche's new Notes for Self series about metaphor in Toki Pona. When every word is meant to stretch, what happens to the literal-figurative distinction?
psyche.co/notes-to-sel...
I wrote for Psyche's new Notes for Self series about metaphor in Toki Pona. When every word is meant to stretch, what happens to the literal-figurative distinction?
psyche.co/notes-to-sel...
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Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”
The University of Arizona rejects the compact and instead submits a Statement of Principles to the Department of Education: president.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...
October 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The University of Arizona rejects the compact and instead submits a Statement of Principles to the Department of Education: president.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...
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The speaker is just amazing. Raising interesting questions, answering them in a prima facie reasonable way, looking at how this answer is historically determined and then taking a fresh look at things through a Daoist angle.
Next talk on #ChinesePhilosophy at #UofT, by Hannah Kim, title: "Fiction without Mimesis: A Comparative Philosophy of Fiction"
#Philosophy #philsky #GlobalPhilosophy
philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...
#Philosophy #philsky #GlobalPhilosophy
philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Hannah Kim, Arizona) - Department of Philosophy
Hannah Kim (Arizona) works on aesthetics, metaphysics, and Asian philosophy.
philosophy.utoronto.ca
October 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The speaker is just amazing. Raising interesting questions, answering them in a prima facie reasonable way, looking at how this answer is historically determined and then taking a fresh look at things through a Daoist angle.
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Excited to have @thisishannahkim.bsky.social at our next Global Philosophy Series talk. This is a hybrid event; Zoom details are available in the link.
Next talk on #ChinesePhilosophy at #UofT, by Hannah Kim, title: "Fiction without Mimesis: A Comparative Philosophy of Fiction"
#Philosophy #philsky #GlobalPhilosophy
philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...
#Philosophy #philsky #GlobalPhilosophy
philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Hannah Kim, Arizona) - Department of Philosophy
Hannah Kim (Arizona) works on aesthetics, metaphysics, and Asian philosophy.
philosophy.utoronto.ca
October 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Excited to have @thisishannahkim.bsky.social at our next Global Philosophy Series talk. This is a hybrid event; Zoom details are available in the link.
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An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
Wow, One Battle After Another was phenomenal. Incredible pacing, great soundtrack, A+ acting from everyone, timely issues. Just great storytelling all around. Go see it in theaters while it's playing!!
September 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Wow, One Battle After Another was phenomenal. Incredible pacing, great soundtrack, A+ acting from everyone, timely issues. Just great storytelling all around. Go see it in theaters while it's playing!!
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Linguistics
September 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Linguistics
Wow, what a stunning poem
One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
September 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Wow, what a stunning poem
Just got to Purdue for the Modern Fiction Studies ~Cultural AI~ conference! Excited to present a new paper, coauthored w/ @aaronrhanlon.com, that LLM outputs constitute a new genre we're calling stochascript & learn what others are working on. Also excited about this super cute PPT template 🤓
September 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Just got to Purdue for the Modern Fiction Studies ~Cultural AI~ conference! Excited to present a new paper, coauthored w/ @aaronrhanlon.com, that LLM outputs constitute a new genre we're calling stochascript & learn what others are working on. Also excited about this super cute PPT template 🤓
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-oid is a great suffix.
asteroid = looks like a star
factoid = looks like a fact
android = looks like a guy
asteroid = looks like a star
factoid = looks like a fact
android = looks like a guy
September 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
-oid is a great suffix.
asteroid = looks like a star
factoid = looks like a fact
android = looks like a guy
asteroid = looks like a star
factoid = looks like a fact
android = looks like a guy
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This is a good heuristic for when you should and shouldn’t take academics seriously when they try to intervene in debates outside their specialty.
Do they have respect for the problem?
Do they have respect for the problem?
my favourite slogan - "respect for the problem" backofmind.substack.com/p/respect-fo...
respect for the problem
more wisdom from Will
backofmind.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is a good heuristic for when you should and shouldn’t take academics seriously when they try to intervene in debates outside their specialty.
Do they have respect for the problem?
Do they have respect for the problem?
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Interesting article on Aztec moral philosophy. Life on the slippery Earth: Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition, not least its acceptance that nobody is perfect. aeon.co/essays/aztec...
Aztec moral philosophy didn’t expect anyone to be a saint | Aeon Essays
Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition, not least its acceptance that nobody is perfect
aeon.co
August 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Interesting article on Aztec moral philosophy. Life on the slippery Earth: Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition, not least its acceptance that nobody is perfect. aeon.co/essays/aztec...
Feeling the same about this book!! Laura Goode opened up the non-academic publishing world for me & we're so lucky that this book, which is based on the class she taught, now exists 💫
August 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Feeling the same about this book!! Laura Goode opened up the non-academic publishing world for me & we're so lucky that this book, which is based on the class she taught, now exists 💫
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22 new papers up at @philimprint.bsky.social, including papers by @thisishannahkim.bsky.social, @catsaintcroix.bsky.social, @wiglet1981.bsky.social & @jweisber.bsky.social, @dellsen.bsky.social, @bartstreumer.bsky.social, and @aworsnip.bsky.social.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/
journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/
Philosophers' Imprint
journals.publishing.umich.edu
August 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
22 new papers up at @philimprint.bsky.social, including papers by @thisishannahkim.bsky.social, @catsaintcroix.bsky.social, @wiglet1981.bsky.social & @jweisber.bsky.social, @dellsen.bsky.social, @bartstreumer.bsky.social, and @aworsnip.bsky.social.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/
journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/
12 years ago, a friend brought a poem to my birthday party & it was love at first read. Wrote a paper about it in grad school & its descendent just came out with my favorite open access journal 🥹
If you're not familiar w/ Eliot's Four Quartets, read it now!! (Burnt Norton is the first quartet)
If you're not familiar w/ Eliot's Four Quartets, read it now!! (Burnt Norton is the first quartet)
Just published:
Hannah H. Kim, (2025) “Metaphysics as a Means in “Burnt Norton””, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 7. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...
Hannah H. Kim, (2025) “Metaphysics as a Means in “Burnt Norton””, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 7. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...
Metaphysics as a Means in “Burnt Norton”
Philosophy-and-literature as a subfield theorizes about the relationship between the two. Though few would explicitly say that philosophy is the point and literature the means, it’s common to see disc...
doi.org
August 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
12 years ago, a friend brought a poem to my birthday party & it was love at first read. Wrote a paper about it in grad school & its descendent just came out with my favorite open access journal 🥹
If you're not familiar w/ Eliot's Four Quartets, read it now!! (Burnt Norton is the first quartet)
If you're not familiar w/ Eliot's Four Quartets, read it now!! (Burnt Norton is the first quartet)
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That's how you can tell human authors from AI.
AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.
Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.
AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.
Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.
Em dashes, like anything, should be used in moderation. Check first with your editor if em dashes are right for you. 😉
#WriteSky #WritingTips
#WriteSky #WritingTips
August 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
That's how you can tell human authors from AI.
AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.
Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.
AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.
Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.
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August arrives in the dark
we are not even asleep and it is here
how can it be so late all at once
-WS Merwin, Nocturne II
from The Shadow of Sirius
#everynightapoem
we are not even asleep and it is here
how can it be so late all at once
-WS Merwin, Nocturne II
from The Shadow of Sirius
#everynightapoem
August 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
August arrives in the dark
we are not even asleep and it is here
how can it be so late all at once
-WS Merwin, Nocturne II
from The Shadow of Sirius
#everynightapoem
we are not even asleep and it is here
how can it be so late all at once
-WS Merwin, Nocturne II
from The Shadow of Sirius
#everynightapoem
I'll be live on Daniel Muñoz's substack this Friday at 2pm ET! We'll talk about the connection between music and philosophy, stories, North Korean philosophy, and whatever else that comes up (... Alex R's D at conferences? 👀)
Learn more + submit Qs here!
bigifftrue.substack.com/p/aesthetics...
Learn more + submit Qs here!
bigifftrue.substack.com/p/aesthetics...
What would you ask Hannah Kim?
Submit questions for Substack Live, this Friday @ 2pm
bigifftrue.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I'll be live on Daniel Muñoz's substack this Friday at 2pm ET! We'll talk about the connection between music and philosophy, stories, North Korean philosophy, and whatever else that comes up (... Alex R's D at conferences? 👀)
Learn more + submit Qs here!
bigifftrue.substack.com/p/aesthetics...
Learn more + submit Qs here!
bigifftrue.substack.com/p/aesthetics...
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Gearing up for Fall 2025 courses? Perhaps AAPT Studies in Pedagogy can help. We have over two volumes of open-access articles--and annotated bibliographies for teaching writing and teaching in hostile contexts: philosophyteachers.org/open-access-...
Open Access AAPT Studies
Selected articles and volumes of AAPT Studies are available open access via the PDC website.
philosophyteachers.org
July 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Gearing up for Fall 2025 courses? Perhaps AAPT Studies in Pedagogy can help. We have over two volumes of open-access articles--and annotated bibliographies for teaching writing and teaching in hostile contexts: philosophyteachers.org/open-access-...
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i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work
July 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work