What is the broader social and cultural relevance of academic aesthetics? Can it help us make out why a show seems a little flat? Or analyse for instance racial fetishes? What is the aesthetic attitude and how may one take it up? All this and more in an interview with the philosopher Alex King!
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Guest post at Aesthetics for Birds
It was a pleasure to work together with Alex King at Aesthetics for Birds and to produce this guest post.
Junior Fellowship at Collegium Helveticum
I am very excited to have been granted a Junior Fellowship at the interdisciplinary institute, Collegium Helveticum starting September! My new colleagues are a primatologist, a terrorism scholar, an architect, movie makers, a historian of India, a perfume synthesiser, and a composer. The new place of work: the old Semper observatory in Zurich.
Sicht:Bar is live
Sicht:Bar [Visible], the neighbourhood development project that I have been managing since the beginning of the year now has its own website! We are excited to launch the association this summer.y
CfP: Philosophy of the City
We are inviting papers for a special issue of the East Asian Journal of Philosophy dedicated to Philosophy of the City. You will find all the information in our call for papers.
New book review
A new and wonderful review of my book A Picture Held us Captive is available here (in German).
Rezension meiner Dissertation
Tim Hofmann aus Basel hat in der Zeitschrift Germanistik eine gute Rezension meiner Dissertation verfasst: “Lobos Lektüren zeichnen sich durch ein hohes Mass an Werkkenntnis aller drei eingehend thematisierter Autoren aus.”
