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What Maslow Got Wrong? | By Aesthetics Research Lab / Michael Spicher open.substack.com/pub/aesthetics…

I forgot Radiohead was featured a lot in the 1995 movie Clueless.

It's intriguing how Maslow's hierarchy of needs is widely accepted without much scrutiny. Given how it shapes our understanding of humanity, there's a compelling case for challenging Maslow's view, even if we still accept it as is. aestheticsresearch.substack.com/p/what-maslow-…

It’s never too late to begin practicing an art. Making art lowers stress, enhances immune function, and increases cardiovascular reactivity.* Businesses engaging in arts practices can create better work culture. *from the book "Your Brain on Art" by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross

History of Aesthetics: Ancient Philosophy Summary | By Aesthetics Research Lab / Michael Spicher open.substack.com/pub/aesthetics… #aesthetics

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Two Myths About Aesthetics | By Aesthetics Research Lab / Michael Spicher open.substack.com/pub/aesthetics… #aesthetics

Louisiana Red’s song “Too Poor to Die” provides the right vibe as I head to teach existentialism.

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Lovely new review of my book by Julia Minarik in British Journal of Aesthetics I had to go reread what I said about beards Link is here if you have access: academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics/a… Or here: johnson.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blo…

Discussing the prologue to Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and introducing Kierkegaard in class today along with a few blues tunes about death.

“Do your own research!” - Person that doesn’t do their own research

“To me personally the kind of philosophy for which ‘value’ is a key term seems an abortive attempt to recover through our words what we have really lost from our thoughts.” - Gabriel Marcel, Man Against Mass Society

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Things I’ve been thinking about for work today: Hegel Death Kierkegaard Classical theories of Art Impressionism Science and the public Digital Fashion

New issue of the "Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics". Vol. 47, No. 4, Winter 2024. This issue is dedicated to eminent Indian scholar and critical theorist Prof. Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard University) on his 75th Birth Anniversary. jcla.in/journal-of-com…