Sean T. Murphy
@seantmurphyy.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Thinking about German philosophy, aesthetics, understanding (ourselves & other people), and modernism.
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The short-form video has brought about a second age of orality. That’s partly because phones are addicting, and partly because America’s ruling class wants it that way.
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The short-form video has brought about a second age of orality. That’s partly because phones are addicting, and partly because America’s ruling class wants it that way.
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@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
October 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
@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
‘We have also freed our study from the superfluous ballast of citations and references, for they lack any direct methodological significance in studies of a nonhistorical nature […]. For the qualified reader, they are unnecessary, and for the unqualified, useless’. Dang, Bakhtin goes hard. #Goals
October 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
‘We have also freed our study from the superfluous ballast of citations and references, for they lack any direct methodological significance in studies of a nonhistorical nature […]. For the qualified reader, they are unnecessary, and for the unqualified, useless’. Dang, Bakhtin goes hard. #Goals
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Can't let the first anniversary of Edna O'Brien's death pass without this classic quote for The Paris Review Art of Fiction interview.
July 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Can't let the first anniversary of Edna O'Brien's death pass without this classic quote for The Paris Review Art of Fiction interview.
More needs to be said (outside Ireland) about Jack B. Yeats. His ‘Men of Destiny’ (1946) is below.
July 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
More needs to be said (outside Ireland) about Jack B. Yeats. His ‘Men of Destiny’ (1946) is below.
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Here’s a review I wrote of an excellent edited volume investigating themes in Schopenhauer’s ethics. Not sure who of the authors I can shout out on here, but there’s at least @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social, @profcolin.bsky.social
Here’s a review I wrote of an excellent edited volume investigating themes in Schopenhauer’s ethics. Not sure who of the authors I can shout out on here, but there’s at least @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social, @profcolin.bsky.social
Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy
Consider just one of Nietzsche’s many veiled critical assessments of Schopenhauer’s—his great educator’s—ethics of compass...
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June 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Here’s a review I wrote of an excellent edited volume investigating themes in Schopenhauer’s ethics. Not sure who of the authors I can shout out on here, but there’s at least @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social, @profcolin.bsky.social
Here’s a review I wrote of an excellent edited volume investigating themes in Schopenhauer’s ethics. Not sure who of the authors I can shout out on here, but there’s at least @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social, @profcolin.bsky.social
There’s nothing that makes me laugh harder than this franchise, and I think it’s because there’s nothing quite like laughing with your friends; and that to me is the guiding truth of this series. Put differently, nothing says I love you like batting a ball at your best pal’s privates.
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The Community issue continues, with @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social on love, laughter, connection, and community in the JACKASS franchise:
"One of JACKASS's perpetual charms is that it feels like it can belong to anybody, that anybody can become a part of it."
The Community issue continues, with @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social on love, laughter, connection, and community in the JACKASS franchise:
"One of JACKASS's perpetual charms is that it feels like it can belong to anybody, that anybody can become a part of it."
Jackass: Laughing With the Pain
One of the perpetual charms of Jackass is that it feels like it can belong to anybody, that anybody can become a part of it.
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June 4, 2025 at 5:46 AM
There’s nothing that makes me laugh harder than this franchise, and I think it’s because there’s nothing quite like laughing with your friends; and that to me is the guiding truth of this series. Put differently, nothing says I love you like batting a ball at your best pal’s privates.
This is such a great interview for anyone looking for an overview of recent work on aesthetic value. Going right onto my aesthetics syllabus.
Check out my interview with James Shelley (Auburn) about the nature of aesthetic value!
Ep. 79: The Nature of Aesthetic Value | A Discussion with James Shelley
YouTube video by Philosophers Discussing Art
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March 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is such a great interview for anyone looking for an overview of recent work on aesthetic value. Going right onto my aesthetics syllabus.
Come check out all the ASA sessions at the virtual Central later this month! We’ve got a great group presenting as part of the Group Sessions.
aesthetics-online.org/news/691944/...
aesthetics-online.org/news/691944/...
ASA Members at the 2025 APA Central Meeting - American Society For Aesthetics
Are you going to the APA Central (Virtual) meeting February 20 - March 1, 2025? Please support the ASA members on the program. The complete APA program is here.
All times CST.
aesthetics-online.org
February 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Come check out all the ASA sessions at the virtual Central later this month! We’ve got a great group presenting as part of the Group Sessions.
aesthetics-online.org/news/691944/...
aesthetics-online.org/news/691944/...
Deadline extended to Jan 20!
Please let students know about the upcoming Undergrad Phil Conf at SUU!
Deadline: Jan 9.
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Deadline: Jan 9.
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2025 Southern Utah University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
2025 Southern Utah University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
March 22, 2025
Keynote Speaker: Dr. A.K. Flowerree
Associate Professor, Texas Tech University
We are pleased to announce the 11th annu...
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January 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Deadline extended to Jan 20!
Please let students know about the upcoming Undergrad Phil Conf at SUU!
Deadline: Jan 9.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Deadline: Jan 9.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
2025 Southern Utah University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
2025 Southern Utah University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
March 22, 2025
Keynote Speaker: Dr. A.K. Flowerree
Associate Professor, Texas Tech University
We are pleased to announce the 11th annu...
philevents.org
January 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Please let students know about the upcoming Undergrad Phil Conf at SUU!
Deadline: Jan 9.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Deadline: Jan 9.
philevents.org/event/show/1...
I am sure some of you have loads of reccs for Cat!
What would be on your syllabus for Phil401: Philosophy of Vibes?
December 19, 2024 at 7:48 PM
I am sure some of you have loads of reccs for Cat!
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“You never know when you’ll pick up something old, weird, and randomly incredible.” Check out the best (old) books we read this year. https://buff.ly/41xXkjw
The Best (Old) Books We Read in 2024
It’s December, and so the literary internet, such as it is, is awash in best-of book lists. I cannot say that this website is not complicit in this (are we the worst? we might be the worst), …
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December 12, 2024 at 3:41 PM
“You never know when you’ll pick up something old, weird, and randomly incredible.” Check out the best (old) books we read this year. https://buff.ly/41xXkjw
X-aesthetics: Does your Spotify wrapped leave you feeling connected to other listeners? Alienated from them? Regretful in your year’s listening? Bored? Does it make you feel like a special or not very special aesthetic snowflake?
December 4, 2024 at 9:52 PM
X-aesthetics: Does your Spotify wrapped leave you feeling connected to other listeners? Alienated from them? Regretful in your year’s listening? Bored? Does it make you feel like a special or not very special aesthetic snowflake?
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This emocrust album that just dropped this morning RIPS dishumanitar.bandcamp.com/album/s-t
S/T, by DISHUMANITÄR
10 track album
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November 21, 2024 at 1:57 PM
This emocrust album that just dropped this morning RIPS dishumanitar.bandcamp.com/album/s-t
I don’t really understand what is happening here: 500 followers in a day? And many look like fake accounts. I liked it fine when I only had 50 followers and they all were real people.
November 22, 2024 at 1:56 AM
I don’t really understand what is happening here: 500 followers in a day? And many look like fake accounts. I liked it fine when I only had 50 followers and they all were real people.
If you have an aesthetics/philosophy of art/art theory/lit theory/ paper idea kicking around, email me a ~500 word abstract for consideration at the American Society of Aesthetics session at the 2025 (all virtual) Central APA! Or tell someone you know!
Deadline: 9/16
sean.t.murphy.phil@gmail.com
Deadline: 9/16
sean.t.murphy.phil@gmail.com
September 3, 2024 at 11:32 PM
If you have an aesthetics/philosophy of art/art theory/lit theory/ paper idea kicking around, email me a ~500 word abstract for consideration at the American Society of Aesthetics session at the 2025 (all virtual) Central APA! Or tell someone you know!
Deadline: 9/16
sean.t.murphy.phil@gmail.com
Deadline: 9/16
sean.t.murphy.phil@gmail.com
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My article on the authenticity and queerness of rhinestone cowboy suits is now out online, and you can read it for free! academic.oup.com/jaac/advance...
Rhinestone Cowboys: The Problem of Country Music Costuming
Abstract. In this paper, I attempt to answer the problem of country music costuming. That is, how can we reconcile the practical identity associated with c
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August 3, 2024 at 4:20 AM
My article on the authenticity and queerness of rhinestone cowboy suits is now out online, and you can read it for free! academic.oup.com/jaac/advance...
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Wishing a happy birthday to perhaps the best to every do it
January 25, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Wishing a happy birthday to perhaps the best to every do it