Opera as Art

 

Fun little word game: Alphaguess. “Guess the word of the day. Each guess reveals where the word sits alphabetically.” (Today’s puzzle took me 16 guesses…is that good?)

x Knot … Using Rope

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A little history of the anchovy Engelsberg Ideas

Opera as Art by Paul Thom is reviewed by Nina Penner

The Best and Worst Art of Toilet Paper, Paper Towel, and Facial Tissue Brands

Art Words - Data is Plural: “The Getty Vocabularies, published by the Getty Research Institute, “contain structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, visual surrogates, art conservation, and bibliographic materials.” They provide definitions, relationships, translations, and disambiguations for a broad range of terms and entities. 

Their Art & Architecture Thesaurus, for example, describes 57,000+ generic concepts (e.g., lithography), while others focus on artist names, cultural objects, and geographies. The records are available several ways, including bulk downloads.

1. Descartes’s Method: The Formation of the Subject of Science by Tared R. Dika is reviewed by Patrick Brissey.
2. About Haecceity: An Essay in Ontologyby Matthew Davidson is reviewed by Sam Cowling.
3. Opera as Art by Paul Thom is reviewed by Nina Penner.
4. Nietzsche’s Struggle against Pessimism by Patrick Hassan is reviewed by Julian Young.

1000-Word Philosophy         ∅              

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BJPS Short Reads         ∅

Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Philosophy Journals        ∅          

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media           

1. The Happiness of Dogs: Why the Unexamined Life is Most Worth Living by Mark Rowlands is reviewed by Tim Dowling at The Guardian, and by Michael Prodger at The New Statesman.
2. The Invention of Good and Evil by Hanno Sauer is reviewed by Bryan Appleyard at The Spectator. 
3. What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics by Elizabeth Finneron-Burns and Philosophy for an Ending World by Tim Mulgan are together reviewed by Nikhil Venkatesh at The Times Literary Supplement.
4. Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage by Stanley Cavell is reviewed by Jane Hu at The New Republic.
5. Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence by Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence reviewed alongside related books by Elizabeth Kolbert at The New York Review of Books. 

Compiled by Michael Glawson

BONUS: Aristotle, the father of modern science

1. George Orwell as an outsider philosopher — Peter Brian Barry (Saginaw Valley) discusses the writer’s moral and political philosophy
2. “More philosophers should consider starting their own blogs” — philosopher and blogger Richard Y. Chappell (Miami) explains why
3. “If you think it matters how exactly society is arranged and what may be done about that… you simply must demand a higher calibre of reasoning from the intelligentsia” — on both the left and right, says Liam Kofi Bright (LSE)
4. OpenAI says its new model, o1, aka Strawberry, “thinks before it answers—it can produce a long internal chain of thought before responding to the user” — here’s the organization’s report on what o1 can do, and how well
5. She found philosophy disappointing in college, worked in finance, got an MBA. Now she’s a successful public philosopher — Skye Cleary (Columbia) is interviewed at What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?