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thisishannahkim.bsky.social
Philosophy professor, Univ of Arizona 🌵 executive team at SEP 👩‍💻 thinking about fiction, poetry, music, movies, time, VR, and East Asian thought 🇰🇷🇰🇵 freelancer for philosophy, arts & culture ✌️ www.hannahkimphilosophy.com
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100%! It also breeds a "genius"/prodigy-centric culture, and encourages people towards flashy, high-profile topics rather than truly important pursuits that may take a lifetime of dedication to achieve. #AcademicSky #Ageism #PsychSciSky

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

I'm speaking on a panel titled "Public philosophy: its impact, challenges, and opportunities" and have 15 minutes. What should I cover with those minutes that would be most helpful for the audience? If you were attending a session like that, what would you want to learn about?

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

A Hidden Life (Malick, 2019)

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

body dysmorphia but for the body of my paper

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

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 🤤

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

You know how weather forecasts say it's x degrees, but feels like y? Clocks should do the same. It's 6pm but it feels like at least 10pm.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Celebrating small wins: bought an avocado on Monday to use tonight & it was perfectly ripe ✌️

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

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...

submitted 38 days ago • 8 comments

My piece yesterday in Aeon: a 3000-word "love song for philosophy", arguing that the our species' capacity to wonder philosophically, even when we make no progress toward answers, is the most intrinsically awesome thing about planet Earth. Philosophy needs no other excuse. aeon.co/essays/if-yo...

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had. * RIP David Lynch

submitted 41 days ago • 101 comments

I keep returning to this page from Lucy Ives' The Hermit

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Wise Women is a sixteen-episode series about women in philosophy from antiquity to the twentieth century made by @philtalkradio.bsky.social www.philosophytalk.org/wisewomen

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments