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5I Hate ApplauseIn Jason Southworth & Ruth Tallman (eds.), Saturday Night Live and Philosophy, Wiley. 2020.Many people who were Saturday Night Live fans in the 1990s recall the firing of Norm Macdonald as a watershed moment. In exploring theories about why people employ humor, they just might be able to discover the motivations behind Macdonald's firing. Macdonald offered a different assessment of his firing in an oral history of Saturday Night Live, saying that it came down to a philosophical disagreement between NBC management and himself about the goal of “Weekend Update.” Macdonald's requirement …Read more
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13Protecting Artists’ Moral Rights in the U.S. Legal ContextDissertation, University of Oklahoma. 2022.The three chapters of this dissertation work together and build on each other to make an argument for stronger uniform artists’ moral rights protections in the United States legal system. The current system provides inconsistent protection in a narrow subset of instances and fails to adequately protect moral rights. Many artists lack protections either due to the type of work they produce or due to lack of stature and bargaining power. I argue that by adopting an intimacy-based motivation for pr…Read more
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I Hate Applause: Norm Macdonald and LaughterIn Ruth Tallman & Jason Southworth (eds.), Saturday Night Live and Philosophy: Deep Thoughts Through the Decades, John Wiley & Sons. pp. 169-176. 2020.
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61Ally AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 77 (4): 447-459. 2019.In this article I discuss what I am calling “ally aesthetics.” I suggest a set of necessary, though not necessarily sufficient, considerations for the creation of successful instances of ally art. Focusing on three case studies, I propose some key characteristics of ally aesthetics, such as its contextual/temporal nature and how that relates to success and the importance of understanding the place of the ally aesthetic within the larger movements they are allying with.
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Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Law |
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Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Law |
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Aesthetics and Race |
Philosophy of Sport |
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