Somehow in the past week or so I've fallen back in love with the aesthetics and vibe of the Star Wars prequels (especially "Attack of the Clones") as well as the Old Republic games. Nothing else quite looks like them. I want to live in that world...
Well...maybe not an exact replica. I might want to change out the hues to be red-dominated...but I wouldn't need to look too far for inspiration. Another politician from the same planet indulged in this most Sith-like of color schemes. 😉
I think it might be because I went to the villa last April and it's only now truly sinking in. Yes, where Padmé got married is a real place: Villa del Balbianello. And having seen it in person I'm not sure if I could abide being married anywhere else than at that same spot.
It seems a person can get married there. It's expensive for a wedding venue, but since my dream wedding doesn't involve a crowd, that helps to keep costs down, so splurging on the venue might be more financially attainable than I'd expect.
#CfP für den #Workshop "Lebens-Stil/Schreib-Stil. Bourdieus soziologische Ästhetik", der vom 7. bis 9. November 2024 an der Universität Wien stattfinden wird.
Das Max-Planck-Institut für empirische #Ästhetik (@MPI_ae) in Frankfurt am Main sucht ab sofort eine "Studentische Hilfskraft (m/w/d) für den Bereich Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit".
The 1998 Fiat Multipla is almost always included on clickbaity listicles about the ugliest ever cars. The Autopian's Adrian Clarke makes the case for why its design, while aesthetically challenging, was actually brilliant. "A constant criticism of car design I hear a lot is the ‘form should follow function’ bulls***," he writes. "Be careful what you wish for, because the Multipla is what you could end up with."
#CfP für die Studentische #Tagung "Alles fließt. Fluides in #Literatur und anderen #Medien", die am 10. und 11. Oktober 2024 an der Universität Paderborn stattfinden wird.
Yesterday was #WorldBookDay. I missed posting about it b/c I was preparing for a class discussion on #Morrison's #Beloved, a book I've read & taught many times. It always brings me to my knees (& tears). The students were blown away & we had such a good conversation about the names in the book, representations of the body (Baby Suggs speaks about loving one's body even as we read about it flying apart at the seams), & #aesthetics - the lyrical beauty of the narrator's voice.
I've been teaching the philosophy of science even though this is not at all my expertise, but today it struck me that the discipline is similar to aesthetics in several interesting ways.
For one thing, both are latecomers among philosophical fields of study; while both have roots going back to Plato and Aristotle, these sources are part of the disciplines' prehistory. Their real origins lie rather in the modern age.