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50Aesthetics of Virtual RealityBritish Journal of Aesthetics 63 (2): 293-297. 2023.Over a decade ago, Grant Tavinor’s first book, The Art of Videogames (2009), brought academic philosophy face to face with a seemingly alien artform. With The A.
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16Filming NatureFilm and Philosophy 27 47-67. 2023.Much theorizing on the aesthetics of nature focuses on its uniqueness qua nature. An overly-inflated sense of the ethical and aesthetic normative force of this focus has resulted in a general paucity of philosophical investigation into artified nature. The investigations that do exist typically refuse to or are unable to marshall the theoretical resources of nature aesthetics, which are taken to only apply to live nature. Here, I resist such wing-clipping by taking artified nature–specifically, …Read more
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13Blackening Aesthetic ExperienceThe Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (4). 2021.Contemporary philosophy of art generally assumes that aesthetic experience is constituted by a certain ontological-phenomenological structure: the apprehension by a subject of an object. This article explores an underexamined critique of this philosophical model found within the black intellectual and artistic tradition. I will specifically focus on the version of this critique proposed by the similarly underexamined black philosophers Adrian Piper and Fred Moten. This critique, which I dub the …Read more
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