Jenny Judge
@jennyjudge.bsky.social
I write about music and mind. Lecturer (i.e. asst prof) in philosophy at the Uni of Melbourne. Formerly NYU Philosophy (PhD) and Cambridge (music PhD). 🇮🇪
Also, name me one other president who released a spoken word poetry album in his last few weeks in office.
I'll wait
I'll wait
October 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Also, name me one other president who released a spoken word poetry album in his last few weeks in office.
I'll wait
I'll wait
All-time GOAT bass baritone Paul Robeson, politely explaining to the HUAC why he refuses to leave America for good. Suspect that many in the US feel like this now
October 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
All-time GOAT bass baritone Paul Robeson, politely explaining to the HUAC why he refuses to leave America for good. Suspect that many in the US feel like this now
Oscar Wilde knew what he was talking about, when it came to pleasure
(from 'The Picture of Dorian Grey')
(from 'The Picture of Dorian Grey')
August 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Oscar Wilde knew what he was talking about, when it came to pleasure
(from 'The Picture of Dorian Grey')
(from 'The Picture of Dorian Grey')
Tell me you've just started an Iris Murdoch novel without telling me you've just started an Iris Murdoch novel
@backlisted.bsky.social
@backlisted.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Tell me you've just started an Iris Murdoch novel without telling me you've just started an Iris Murdoch novel
@backlisted.bsky.social
@backlisted.bsky.social
I reckon army recruitment would be a lot easier if they still allowed soldiers to dress like Maurice Ravel did, when he was in the French army in 1916
July 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I reckon army recruitment would be a lot easier if they still allowed soldiers to dress like Maurice Ravel did, when he was in the French army in 1916
V satisfying when composers indicate the time signature like this.
IT'S IN 4 YOU IDIOTS
IT'S IN 4 YOU IDIOTS
July 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
V satisfying when composers indicate the time signature like this.
IT'S IN 4 YOU IDIOTS
IT'S IN 4 YOU IDIOTS
Reading (and v much enjoying) @ksetiya.bsky.social's Midlife. I never knew that JS Mill's wife Harriet was so centrally involved in his intellectual life, and that they had such a wonderful marriage
May 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Reading (and v much enjoying) @ksetiya.bsky.social's Midlife. I never knew that JS Mill's wife Harriet was so centrally involved in his intellectual life, and that they had such a wonderful marriage
Reading Michael Tanner on sentimentality and art, and having a great old time. Here he is on Winterreise, and on the dubious nature of the poems that Schubert sets, which he refers to as 'Müller's indistinguishable dollops of goo'
#philsky
#philsky
April 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Reading Michael Tanner on sentimentality and art, and having a great old time. Here he is on Winterreise, and on the dubious nature of the poems that Schubert sets, which he refers to as 'Müller's indistinguishable dollops of goo'
#philsky
#philsky
First Phil Mind lecture today. Plan is to get the students thinking about how *weird* the human mind is, and how many mental capacities there are. We'll discuss (inter alia) this passage from Joan Didion, about the urge to write stuff down, and the inevitable drift toward self-obsession
March 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
First Phil Mind lecture today. Plan is to get the students thinking about how *weird* the human mind is, and how many mental capacities there are. We'll discuss (inter alia) this passage from Joan Didion, about the urge to write stuff down, and the inevitable drift toward self-obsession
Gutted to have finished this. Sentences so perfect I almost wept for envy at not having written them myself. (JB sometimes lets prose get in the way of action, but not here.) Told from POV of art historian / double agent based partly on Louis MacNeice. I'd love to see @backlisted.bsky.social do this
January 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Gutted to have finished this. Sentences so perfect I almost wept for envy at not having written them myself. (JB sometimes lets prose get in the way of action, but not here.) Told from POV of art historian / double agent based partly on Louis MacNeice. I'd love to see @backlisted.bsky.social do this
Baffled by this image on a Melbourne medical surgery's website. The salad bowl appears to be... levitating?
Odd for them to use AI for this, given that the internet already abounds with 'women laughing alone with salad' pics
Odd for them to use AI for this, given that the internet already abounds with 'women laughing alone with salad' pics
January 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Baffled by this image on a Melbourne medical surgery's website. The salad bowl appears to be... levitating?
Odd for them to use AI for this, given that the internet already abounds with 'women laughing alone with salad' pics
Odd for them to use AI for this, given that the internet already abounds with 'women laughing alone with salad' pics
My university's annual leave system features this very metaphysically intriguing button
November 23, 2024 at 8:08 PM
My university's annual leave system features this very metaphysically intriguing button
Great talk by @shannonvallor.bsky.social last night on her new book, 'The AI Mirror.'
She argued that current AI hype is actually an expression of the (very old, very harmful) fantasy that we're at our best when we're acting like machines.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
She argued that current AI hype is actually an expression of the (very old, very harmful) fantasy that we're at our best when we're acting like machines.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
April 9, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Great talk by @shannonvallor.bsky.social last night on her new book, 'The AI Mirror.'
She argued that current AI hype is actually an expression of the (very old, very harmful) fantasy that we're at our best when we're acting like machines.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
She argued that current AI hype is actually an expression of the (very old, very harmful) fantasy that we're at our best when we're acting like machines.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Conditions have never been more favourable for me trying Vegemite. And yet...
February 5, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Conditions have never been more favourable for me trying Vegemite. And yet...
Today I'm reading Carl Dahlhaus, aka Germany's preeminent Music Guy About Town in the postwar years.
As one would expect, he had excellent glasses #goalz
As one would expect, he had excellent glasses #goalz
January 4, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Today I'm reading Carl Dahlhaus, aka Germany's preeminent Music Guy About Town in the postwar years.
As one would expect, he had excellent glasses #goalz
As one would expect, he had excellent glasses #goalz
Of all the novels I read in 2023, Bowen's 'The Death of the Heart' has lingered the most. A laser-sharp portrait of the casual cruelties of sophisticated society, and the terrifying thrill of falling heedlessly in love for the first time.
(deep thanks to @backlisted.bsky.social, as ever)
(deep thanks to @backlisted.bsky.social, as ever)
December 23, 2023 at 12:43 AM
Of all the novels I read in 2023, Bowen's 'The Death of the Heart' has lingered the most. A laser-sharp portrait of the casual cruelties of sophisticated society, and the terrifying thrill of falling heedlessly in love for the first time.
(deep thanks to @backlisted.bsky.social, as ever)
(deep thanks to @backlisted.bsky.social, as ever)
Putting poor sleep to good use by reading about the Telharmonium, designed in 1896 by Thaddeus Cahill to broadcast electronic 'slumber music for insomniacs' and 'waking music for sleepers' immediately down the telephone lines.
www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/d...
www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/d...
December 13, 2023 at 6:13 PM
Putting poor sleep to good use by reading about the Telharmonium, designed in 1896 by Thaddeus Cahill to broadcast electronic 'slumber music for insomniacs' and 'waking music for sleepers' immediately down the telephone lines.
www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/d...
www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/d...
TIL that the reason the eagle eats Prometheus' *liver* specifically, when he's bound in punishment for stealing fire from the gods, is bc for the Greeks, the liver was the seat of the emotions.
Will henceforth speak of 'affairs of the liver', my liver going out to people, &c
Will henceforth speak of 'affairs of the liver', my liver going out to people, &c
December 2, 2023 at 8:53 PM
TIL that the reason the eagle eats Prometheus' *liver* specifically, when he's bound in punishment for stealing fire from the gods, is bc for the Greeks, the liver was the seat of the emotions.
Will henceforth speak of 'affairs of the liver', my liver going out to people, &c
Will henceforth speak of 'affairs of the liver', my liver going out to people, &c
V fun workshop in Perth yday brainstorming artistic interventions on the rollout of commercial drones in W Australia. (WA might see a lot of darkly comic sound art in the next few months...)
Here's me (plus a pic of me) talking about how art can intervene on tech policy without becoming propaganda.
Here's me (plus a pic of me) talking about how art can intervene on tech policy without becoming propaganda.
November 19, 2023 at 3:02 PM
V fun workshop in Perth yday brainstorming artistic interventions on the rollout of commercial drones in W Australia. (WA might see a lot of darkly comic sound art in the next few months...)
Here's me (plus a pic of me) talking about how art can intervene on tech policy without becoming propaganda.
Here's me (plus a pic of me) talking about how art can intervene on tech policy without becoming propaganda.
Was so moved by the Beckett ep. of @backlisted.bsky.social. I discovered Backlisted during lockdown, living alone in a cottage in West Cork (view from kitchen window pictured). If it was a lifeline to @johnmitchinson.bsky.social, @iammilliam.bsky.social and Nicky, it was that for me too, tenfold.
November 17, 2023 at 12:56 PM
Was so moved by the Beckett ep. of @backlisted.bsky.social. I discovered Backlisted during lockdown, living alone in a cottage in West Cork (view from kitchen window pictured). If it was a lifeline to @johnmitchinson.bsky.social, @iammilliam.bsky.social and Nicky, it was that for me too, tenfold.
Nothing reminds you that you're at the edge of Earth like a rainbow lorikeet. Two of these boys regularly come to hang out on the tree growing over my Melbourne balcony. Every time I see them, I think, 'wait, where am I, wtf is going on'
birdlife.org.au/bird-profile...
birdlife.org.au/bird-profile...
November 5, 2023 at 9:08 AM
Nothing reminds you that you're at the edge of Earth like a rainbow lorikeet. Two of these boys regularly come to hang out on the tree growing over my Melbourne balcony. Every time I see them, I think, 'wait, where am I, wtf is going on'
birdlife.org.au/bird-profile...
birdlife.org.au/bird-profile...
It's so thrilling to open a book you haven't read for years (and in particular, before you started a philosophy PhD), and realise that there are insights in it that you completely missed the first time around, and that speak directly to stuff you're thinking about now.
November 2, 2023 at 9:15 PM
It's so thrilling to open a book you haven't read for years (and in particular, before you started a philosophy PhD), and realise that there are insights in it that you completely missed the first time around, and that speak directly to stuff you're thinking about now.
Sunny Melbourne is by far the least spooky place I've ever spent Hallowe'en. Planning to make up for it tonight by diving into this, which I've been hoarding for the purpose 🎃
October 30, 2023 at 10:50 PM
Sunny Melbourne is by far the least spooky place I've ever spent Hallowe'en. Planning to make up for it tonight by diving into this, which I've been hoarding for the purpose 🎃