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The Only One

Charley Pride, Darius Rucker, and the Colorblind Narrative in American Country Music

May 12, 2018 • by Matthew Linton

In 1987, country music novelty singer O.B. McClinton released “The Only One” which explored the complexity of being a black country music artist. The song told the story of McClinton traveling to a country bar to sing, only to be questioned for being a black artist in a genre dominated ...

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Using Memes to Extinguish Sexism in Poland

A look at Marta Frej’s feminist artwork

April 12, 2018 • by Aneta Stępień

The feminist memes by Polish artist, Marta Frej, feature women of all ages including school girls, grannies, athletes, and mothers engaging in ordinary tasks. But don’t be fooled, the messages included in the memes are powerful and revolutionary. Sleeping Beauty hangs a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign, female firefighters ‘extinguish sexism for ...

Using Memes to Extinguish Sexism in Poland

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Little House on the Prairie

The contested collaboration between Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane

April 11, 2018 • by Christine Woodside

Sixty-one years ago, Laura Ingalls Wilder, America’s most beloved pioneer and author of the Little House books, died at age 90, ending the long and prickly relationship with her daughter and literary collaborator, Rose Wilder Lane. That awkward relationship lives on in arguments among fans and scholars. A public battle ...

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OBJECT AMERICA: The Model 500 Telephone

An interdisciplinary reimagining of America

April 10, 2018 • by Pascal Glissmann and Selena Kimball

Telephones are emblems of power for President Trump, key devices for running his hyper-mediated reality TV show presidency. “I have great phones, I have phones -- let me tell you. The technology that we have in this country is incredible,” Trump boasted to Sean Hannity soon after taking office. From ...

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The Parthenon as a Mediator between Greek Mathematics and Liberal Education

An excerpt from Michael Weinman and Geoff Lehman’s latest book

April 2, 2018 • by Michael Weinman and Geoff Lehman

We propose here to pursue a method of speculative reconstruction to detail what can be learned about the “state of the art” in the early development of “liberal education” in ﬁfth-century Greece. One needs to be cautious in speaking about such a development at such a time, which predates ...

The Parthenon as a Mediator between Greek Mathematics and Liberal Education

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Is Alex Israel for Real?

Sun, sincerity and simulacra in SPF-18

April 2, 2018 • by Nicola Sayers

The campy, nostalgic, Hollywood-inspired works of young(ish) artist Alex Israel would not be out of place as the scenery for a nineties-California-themed party, yet they regularly sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars – sometimes more – and he has had solo exhibitions in prestigious galleries globally. Israel’s first major ...

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In Love’s Shadow

Reflections on love at the Night of Philosophy

March 31, 2018 • by Rossen Ventzislavov

In the title track from his album Station to Station, at the junction where the music resolutely picks up pace, David Bowie sings: “It’s not the side effects of the cocaine. I’m thinking that it must be love.” [1] In contrast to the accelerating beat, the lyric is riddled with irresolution. Is love ...

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Critical Love

Night of Philosophy Love Symposium

March 27, 2018 • by Samantha Rose Hill

Mériam Korichi invited me to prepare a ten-minute speech for a Symposium of Love that she was hosting at the annual Night of Philosophy. Realizing I didn’t have anything to say about love, I thought about how I might begin to answer the question: What is love? What unfolded was ...

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A Night of Philosophy

Reintroducing the flute player

March 26, 2018 • by Mériam Korichi

25 centuries after Plato’s Symposium… 1. “All you need is love”? “Make love not war”? These slogans were made famous by the radical counter-culture movement in the US in the early 1960’s and were to go viral in the year 1968 when the intellectual, social and political contestation spread to the whole ...

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Fake Art and Inauthenticity in Philosophy

A review of Santiago Zabala’s ‘Why Only Art Can Save Us’

March 20, 2018 • by Paul A. Kottman

It was reported in the Washington Post that the Trump White House had asked to borrow Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 painting Landscape with Snow from the Guggenheim Museum in New York in order to display it in the President’s private quarters. [1] The request for the Van Gogh was refused. In its place, the Guggenheim offered ...

Fake Art and Inauthenticity in Philosophy

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Eminem vs. Trump

The political importance of the artist

February 18, 2018 • by Lisa Aslanian

I was in Chicago with my son, visiting colleges, and he was listening to the new Eminem album while he was working out in the hotel gym. He told me that he thought the album was great, but that he was not sure if he agreed with Eminem using his ...

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To the Directors of the National Museum in Krakow

An open letter

February 6, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This letter addressed to Andrzej Betlej and Andrzej Szczerski, the directors of the National Museum in Krakow, came across my screen on Sunday. We are publishing it here today both for what it says about the struggle against the new authoritarianism in Poland, and also because, it seems to me, it ...