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
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...
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 🤓
Opened my tofu and... it was just milky liquid the whole container?? *Too* silken-- I suppose. Wondering what kind of metaphor this'd be
July 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Opened my tofu and... it was just milky liquid the whole container?? *Too* silken-- I suppose. Wondering what kind of metaphor this'd be
Didn't think I'd ever have a favorite motion sickness bag but here we are (I didn't need it!)
June 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Didn't think I'd ever have a favorite motion sickness bag but here we are (I didn't need it!)
Excited to move into my new apartment in Chicago!! Will be here for the next 14 months for my sabbatical. I'll also see if I can get away with reading emails once a week-- got the hoodie ready and everything 😤
June 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Excited to move into my new apartment in Chicago!! Will be here for the next 14 months for my sabbatical. I'll also see if I can get away with reading emails once a week-- got the hoodie ready and everything 😤
New SEP entry alert: Aesthetics in Critical theory!
Cool to have this added to the Aesthetics section.
Thanks to Owen Hulatt!
plato.stanford.edu/entries/aest...
Cool to have this added to the Aesthetics section.
Thanks to Owen Hulatt!
plato.stanford.edu/entries/aest...
March 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
New SEP entry alert: Aesthetics in Critical theory!
Cool to have this added to the Aesthetics section.
Thanks to Owen Hulatt!
plato.stanford.edu/entries/aest...
Cool to have this added to the Aesthetics section.
Thanks to Owen Hulatt!
plato.stanford.edu/entries/aest...
I discovered Firelei Báez at the Vancouver Art Gallery over the weekend & I can't stop thinking about this painting.
(It's an exhausting time & my go-to things have been lifting + art-museum going...)
(It's an exhausting time & my go-to things have been lifting + art-museum going...)
March 19, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I discovered Firelei Báez at the Vancouver Art Gallery over the weekend & I can't stop thinking about this painting.
(It's an exhausting time & my go-to things have been lifting + art-museum going...)
(It's an exhausting time & my go-to things have been lifting + art-museum going...)
This kimchi tofu 김치두부 turned out so well & starting to believe my mom who said eyeballing measurements works just fine 🥲
March 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This kimchi tofu 김치두부 turned out so well & starting to believe my mom who said eyeballing measurements works just fine 🥲
Traveled to Genoa to give a talk at a philosophy of poetry conference!! Very excited to be thinking about poetry the next few days... and I lost no time getting to the pesto here, either 🤤
January 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Traveled to Genoa to give a talk at a philosophy of poetry conference!! Very excited to be thinking about poetry the next few days... and I lost no time getting to the pesto here, either 🤤
If you need a distraction today-- check out my new piece for Aeon!
I say there's no universal definition of fiction b/c how "fiction" is understood depends on a culture's metaphysics. Philosophy of fiction has been taking Greek metaphysics for granted. I say we branch out.
aeon.co/essays/befor...
I say there's no universal definition of fiction b/c how "fiction" is understood depends on a culture's metaphysics. Philosophy of fiction has been taking Greek metaphysics for granted. I say we branch out.
aeon.co/essays/befor...
January 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If you need a distraction today-- check out my new piece for Aeon!
I say there's no universal definition of fiction b/c how "fiction" is understood depends on a culture's metaphysics. Philosophy of fiction has been taking Greek metaphysics for granted. I say we branch out.
aeon.co/essays/befor...
I say there's no universal definition of fiction b/c how "fiction" is understood depends on a culture's metaphysics. Philosophy of fiction has been taking Greek metaphysics for granted. I say we branch out.
aeon.co/essays/befor...
I keep returning to this page from Lucy Ives' The Hermit
January 16, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I keep returning to this page from Lucy Ives' The Hermit
New SEP entry on The Paradox of Tragedy just went live!
Why do we find sad plays/movies/books/poems enjoyable? Why do we intentionally cause ourselves to feel unpleasant emotions?
Check out @jonathangilmore.bsky.social's latest to learn more ✨️
plato.stanford.edu/entries/para...
Why do we find sad plays/movies/books/poems enjoyable? Why do we intentionally cause ourselves to feel unpleasant emotions?
Check out @jonathangilmore.bsky.social's latest to learn more ✨️
plato.stanford.edu/entries/para...
January 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
New SEP entry on The Paradox of Tragedy just went live!
Why do we find sad plays/movies/books/poems enjoyable? Why do we intentionally cause ourselves to feel unpleasant emotions?
Check out @jonathangilmore.bsky.social's latest to learn more ✨️
plato.stanford.edu/entries/para...
Why do we find sad plays/movies/books/poems enjoyable? Why do we intentionally cause ourselves to feel unpleasant emotions?
Check out @jonathangilmore.bsky.social's latest to learn more ✨️
plato.stanford.edu/entries/para...
Back in Tucson & back on the trails
January 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Back in Tucson & back on the trails
In DC for the US-Korea NextGen Scholars program and... now I see why we needed security clearance!
January 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In DC for the US-Korea NextGen Scholars program and... now I see why we needed security clearance!
Saw a golden crown from the Silla dynasty at the Art Institite today... and learned that the comma details are fetuses 🤯 (symbol of fertility and rebirth)
January 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Saw a golden crown from the Silla dynasty at the Art Institite today... and learned that the comma details are fetuses 🤯 (symbol of fertility and rebirth)
Fair 🥲 I mean in *theory* there's supposed to be some accountability 🥲
January 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Fair 🥲 I mean in *theory* there's supposed to be some accountability 🥲
This layout of the title *chef's kiss*
December 29, 2024 at 4:42 AM
This layout of the title *chef's kiss*
How my parents welcomed me home 🥹
(This is just the häagen-dazs variety, and no, it's not the mini versions 😂)
(This is just the häagen-dazs variety, and no, it's not the mini versions 😂)
December 22, 2024 at 6:20 AM
How my parents welcomed me home 🥹
(This is just the häagen-dazs variety, and no, it's not the mini versions 😂)
(This is just the häagen-dazs variety, and no, it's not the mini versions 😂)
Something my colleague @jonathanweinberg.bsky.social and I were discussing-- what is comedic function of the lack of punctuation on the last post? It's so good. Something like simulating interruption? Speed? Shortening sentence (form) matching the lessened expectation (content)? What do you think??
December 12, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Something my colleague @jonathanweinberg.bsky.social and I were discussing-- what is comedic function of the lack of punctuation on the last post? It's so good. Something like simulating interruption? Speed? Shortening sentence (form) matching the lessened expectation (content)? What do you think??
Hiked near the Catalina mountains today-- and saw a bobcat for the first time!
December 9, 2024 at 1:33 AM
Hiked near the Catalina mountains today-- and saw a bobcat for the first time!
The subway pass in Taipei is this adorable keychain!! so cute 😭 my partner was there recently & I thought he had bought it there
December 7, 2024 at 3:28 AM
The subway pass in Taipei is this adorable keychain!! so cute 😭 my partner was there recently & I thought he had bought it there
Happy to be back on the trails with reliably cooler temps in Tucson 🌵
November 25, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Happy to be back on the trails with reliably cooler temps in Tucson 🌵
Had a Korean food potluck w/ friends and it was a success! I contributed bibimbap-- a picture before we dug in 🥄
November 24, 2024 at 5:54 AM
Had a Korean food potluck w/ friends and it was a success! I contributed bibimbap-- a picture before we dug in 🥄
Just in time for world philosophy day-- my film essay for @bwdr.bsky.social just dropped! I wrote about how Blade Runner 2049 and Jackson Pollock challenged
my usual way of engaging with art works (asking questions). I also discuss the Matrix franchise.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/11/21/l...
my usual way of engaging with art works (asking questions). I also discuss the Matrix franchise.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/11/21/l...
November 21, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Just in time for world philosophy day-- my film essay for @bwdr.bsky.social just dropped! I wrote about how Blade Runner 2049 and Jackson Pollock challenged
my usual way of engaging with art works (asking questions). I also discuss the Matrix franchise.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/11/21/l...
my usual way of engaging with art works (asking questions). I also discuss the Matrix franchise.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/11/21/l...