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@neuroyogacara.bsky.social
This is my academic feed for posting Buddhist philosophy, theoretical neurobiology, and aesthetics.
Horror and metal posting at https://bsky.app/profile/neuronaraka.bsky.social
Horror and metal posting at https://bsky.app/profile/neuronaraka.bsky.social
I miss having mental space to work on things I care about. Since my disability stuff kicked into higher gear, teaching overloads every semester, having a lot of advisees, and trying to swim through the hellscape of genAI has basically killed any potential for me to think creatively.
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I miss having mental space to work on things I care about. Since my disability stuff kicked into higher gear, teaching overloads every semester, having a lot of advisees, and trying to swim through the hellscape of genAI has basically killed any potential for me to think creatively.
It's one of my favorite days of the semester...Val Plumwood day!
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09...
Philosopher Val Plumwood recounts near death encounter with crocodile (1985)
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November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It's one of my favorite days of the semester...Val Plumwood day!
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09...
I just finished reading this super interesting book. It gave me a lot to think about, and I’d love to think more about the the subsequent rise of turntables, No Wave, Noise Rock, and experimental dub. Thanks to @vijayiyer.bsky.social for the heads up on this one press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Musician as Philosopher
An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music’s ineffability. The Musician as Philosopher explores the philosophical...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I just finished reading this super interesting book. It gave me a lot to think about, and I’d love to think more about the the subsequent rise of turntables, No Wave, Noise Rock, and experimental dub. Thanks to @vijayiyer.bsky.social for the heads up on this one press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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recent albums, a thread
Fieldwork (Steve Lehman / V.I. / Tyshawn Sorey): THEREUPON (2025)
pirecordings.lnk.to/thereupon
Fieldwork (Steve Lehman / V.I. / Tyshawn Sorey): THEREUPON (2025)
pirecordings.lnk.to/thereupon
Fieldwork - Thereupon
Listen to Thereupon by Fieldwork.
pirecordings.lnk.to
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
recent albums, a thread
Fieldwork (Steve Lehman / V.I. / Tyshawn Sorey): THEREUPON (2025)
pirecordings.lnk.to/thereupon
Fieldwork (Steve Lehman / V.I. / Tyshawn Sorey): THEREUPON (2025)
pirecordings.lnk.to/thereupon
Two aesthetics things I’ve shamefully never read and need to read soon:
Amiri Baraka, Blues People (I’ve read some Baraka, but never this book)
Susanne Langer’s stuff on music (I’ve read some Langer, and maybe even something on music, but it’s been long enough that it’s as if I never read it)
Amiri Baraka, Blues People (I’ve read some Baraka, but never this book)
Susanne Langer’s stuff on music (I’ve read some Langer, and maybe even something on music, but it’s been long enough that it’s as if I never read it)
November 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Two aesthetics things I’ve shamefully never read and need to read soon:
Amiri Baraka, Blues People (I’ve read some Baraka, but never this book)
Susanne Langer’s stuff on music (I’ve read some Langer, and maybe even something on music, but it’s been long enough that it’s as if I never read it)
Amiri Baraka, Blues People (I’ve read some Baraka, but never this book)
Susanne Langer’s stuff on music (I’ve read some Langer, and maybe even something on music, but it’s been long enough that it’s as if I never read it)
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Our special issue of Topoi on "Progress in radical embodiment" can be found here
I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published
link.springer.com/collections/...
I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published
link.springer.com/collections/...
Progress in Radical Embodiment
Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Progress in radical embodiment. The special issue aims to explore progress ...
link.springer.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Our special issue of Topoi on "Progress in radical embodiment" can be found here
I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published
link.springer.com/collections/...
I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published
link.springer.com/collections/...
TFW you realize that the syllabus that you wrote for philosophy majors needs to be adjusted to be a more introductory class (the university changed course numbering recently and I mistakenly assumed philosophy of music would be a higher level class than aesthetics—it’s a lower level class)
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TFW you realize that the syllabus that you wrote for philosophy majors needs to be adjusted to be a more introductory class (the university changed course numbering recently and I mistakenly assumed philosophy of music would be a higher level class than aesthetics—it’s a lower level class)
Aesthetics friends! What is good on the pursuit of aesthetic individuality, and the development of aesthetic selfhood?
I know @nickriggle.bsky.social’s stuff. But what else is good?
I know @nickriggle.bsky.social’s stuff. But what else is good?
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Aesthetics friends! What is good on the pursuit of aesthetic individuality, and the development of aesthetic selfhood?
I know @nickriggle.bsky.social’s stuff. But what else is good?
I know @nickriggle.bsky.social’s stuff. But what else is good?
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love that like 70% of the answer is just to rightfully treat aesthetics as core lol
![A quote from the article: “Rachel [Silverbloom] has capitalized on her love for film to start a Philosophy Film Club and is about to take her students on a field trip to our nearest independent cinema.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qjxnsexrklmagnrjxkusdlxu/bafkreiaozd3yasnghp2jdzxelppx3qjspjdsny3sdqvk6bujbhgbox46vq@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
love that like 70% of the answer is just to rightfully treat aesthetics as core lol
I accidentally closed a browser window that had 40 open tabs instead of the one window that I had separated out. All those tabs are lost, like tears in the rain…time to die…
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I accidentally closed a browser window that had 40 open tabs instead of the one window that I had separated out. All those tabs are lost, like tears in the rain…time to die…
I’m so stoked to see @billorcutt.bsky.social, Steve Shelley, and Ethan Miller tonight!
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I’m so stoked to see @billorcutt.bsky.social, Steve Shelley, and Ethan Miller tonight!
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A draft syllabus for philosophy of cognitive science. Thoughts, comments, and suggestions appreciated! (The redacted one is a banger paper that I refereed that's not out yet but is accepted and should be out by next spring)
![1/13 Daniel Dennett, Three kinds of Intentional Psychology
1/15 Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, More things in heaven and earth
1/20 Amanda Corris, Defining the Environment in Organism–Environment Systems
1/22 Anna Corwin & Cordelia Erickson-Davis, Experiencing presence An interactive model of perception
1/27 Hazel Rose Markus & Shinobu Kitayama, Cultures and Selves: A Cycle of Mutual Constitution
1/29 Qi Wang et al, Culture, Memory, and Narrative Self-Making
2/3 Felipe de Brigard, Memory and Remembering
2/5 Felipe de Brigard, Memory and Remembering
2/10 Felipe de Brigard, Memory and Remembering
2/12 Nicky Clatyton et al., Can animals recall the past and plan for the future?
2/19 Kristin Andrews, How to study animal minds
2/24 Kristin Andrews, How to study animal minds
2/26 Kristin Andrews, How to study animal minds
3/10 G. A. Bradshaw & Allan N. Schore, How Elephants are Opening Doors:Developmental Neuroethology
3/12 [Redacted]
3/17 Frédérique de Vignemont, Affective Bodily Awareness
3/19 Frédérique de Vignemont, Affective Bodily Awareness
3/24 Frédérique de Vignemont, Affective Bodily Awareness
3/26 Anil Seth & Manos Tsakiris, Being a beast machine
3/31 Jennifer Windt, Predictive brains, dreaming selves, sleeping bodies
4/7 Carolina Arruda & Danny Povenelli, Chimpanzees as secret agents
4/9 Elizabeth Pacherie, The Sense of Control and the Sense of Agency
4/14 Chandra Sripada, The atoms of self control
4/16 Asynchronous Activity
4/21 Nick Brancazio, Gender and the senses of agency
4/23 Rebecca Todd & Evan Thompson, The Third Entity
4/28 Hanne De Jaegher, Loving and Knowing](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4pdvvuhwkkt7tmhcz2ycl3gw/bafkreibf4jezi5ffiwa6vhi7yi25s3p732vj3on7ffldadu36z4fzbc3f4@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A draft syllabus for philosophy of cognitive science. Thoughts, comments, and suggestions appreciated! (The redacted one is a banger paper that I refereed that's not out yet but is accepted and should be out by next spring)
A draft syllabus for philosophy of cognitive science. Thoughts, comments, and suggestions appreciated! (The redacted one is a banger paper that I refereed that's not out yet but is accepted and should be out by next spring)
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A draft syllabus for philosophy of cognitive science. Thoughts, comments, and suggestions appreciated! (The redacted one is a banger paper that I refereed that's not out yet but is accepted and should be out by next spring)
Listening to Max Roach, wearing a Sun Ra shirt, and heading to campus to try to convince my students that Adorno was right about jazz…life is weird
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Listening to Max Roach, wearing a Sun Ra shirt, and heading to campus to try to convince my students that Adorno was right about jazz…life is weird
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I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough
I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough
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What paper would my aesthetics friends assign to undergrads with no background to give them a sense of Peter Kivy’s formalism about music?
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
What paper would my aesthetics friends assign to undergrads with no background to give them a sense of Peter Kivy’s formalism about music?
What paper would my aesthetics friends assign to undergrads with no background to give them a sense of Peter Kivy’s formalism about music?
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
What paper would my aesthetics friends assign to undergrads with no background to give them a sense of Peter Kivy’s formalism about music?
I am a fan of jazz, and I know that the history of jazz is a history of radical resistance and worldbuilding. But I'm convinced that Adorno was onto something important, and that his work on jazz isn't best understood as (potentially racist) ramblings from a person who didn't really understand jazz
How much of Adonro’s anti-Jazz take is entangled with the use of Jazz by the US State Department, and with the increasing visibility of Jazz as a cross-class consumable product?
(That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)
(That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)
November 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I am a fan of jazz, and I know that the history of jazz is a history of radical resistance and worldbuilding. But I'm convinced that Adorno was onto something important, and that his work on jazz isn't best understood as (potentially racist) ramblings from a person who didn't really understand jazz
How much of Adonro’s anti-Jazz take is entangled with the use of Jazz by the US State Department, and with the increasing visibility of Jazz as a cross-class consumable product?
(That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)
(That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
How much of Adonro’s anti-Jazz take is entangled with the use of Jazz by the US State Department, and with the increasing visibility of Jazz as a cross-class consumable product?
(That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)
(That is, how much of the critique is situational in ways that are easy to miss at a distance?)
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I'm really struggling to figure out what to do in philosophy of music in the Spring, and need to decide ASAP. Do you have favorite papers on music that work well for students with little background in music or philosophy?
Hey aesthetics friends, what is your favorite recent stuff on the philosophy of music? I'm rebooting a class that was taught at GU for a long time, and I want to bring in a bunch of cool new stuff!
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I'm really struggling to figure out what to do in philosophy of music in the Spring, and need to decide ASAP. Do you have favorite papers on music that work well for students with little background in music or philosophy?
I'm really struggling to figure out what to do in philosophy of music in the Spring, and need to decide ASAP. Do you have favorite papers on music that work well for students with little background in music or philosophy?
Hey aesthetics friends, what is your favorite recent stuff on the philosophy of music? I'm rebooting a class that was taught at GU for a long time, and I want to bring in a bunch of cool new stuff!
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I'm really struggling to figure out what to do in philosophy of music in the Spring, and need to decide ASAP. Do you have favorite papers on music that work well for students with little background in music or philosophy?
I threw a wrench in the machine because it is haloween…so tomorrow in Aesthetics, we will discuss The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.
Relatedly, if you don’t know this song, and if you like synthwave, it rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_DV...
Relatedly, if you don’t know this song, and if you like synthwave, it rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_DV...
Das Kabinette - The Cabinet
YouTube video by brokendreamstream
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October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I threw a wrench in the machine because it is haloween…so tomorrow in Aesthetics, we will discuss The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.
Relatedly, if you don’t know this song, and if you like synthwave, it rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_DV...
Relatedly, if you don’t know this song, and if you like synthwave, it rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_DV...
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As of yesterday, @lizscar.bsky.social and I’s new book, An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience is officially out! 🥳🥳🥳
You can order it here:
www.routledge.com/An-Introduct...
You can order it here:
www.routledge.com/An-Introduct...
An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience
An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience gives students and other readers a comprehensive sense of the dynamic issues and problems in aesthetics and philosophy of art...
www.routledge.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
As of yesterday, @lizscar.bsky.social and I’s new book, An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience is officially out! 🥳🥳🥳
You can order it here:
www.routledge.com/An-Introduct...
You can order it here:
www.routledge.com/An-Introduct...
I’m teaching Benjamin this week in aesthetics. It’s wild that “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction” was published in 1935, but that it captures so many features of the contemporary landscape…I’m really wondering how it will hit for the students…
October 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I’m teaching Benjamin this week in aesthetics. It’s wild that “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction” was published in 1935, but that it captures so many features of the contemporary landscape…I’m really wondering how it will hit for the students…