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Morality shouldn't matter to artists

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Technology to fashion, originality is a myth

There is no such thing as novelty

Narain D. Batra

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Aristotle, reality TV, and why fiction reveals more than fact

Fiction uncovers something deeper than truth

Karen Simecek

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Dostoevsky, nihilism, and the fight for human nature

Russian nihilism on trial

Gary Saul Morson

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Thomas Mann and the fall of the West

Mann's masterpiece predicted liberalism's crisis

Oliver Adelson

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Pinker vs Nietzsche: Is music the basis of language?

Language is born out of music

Kathleen Higgins

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Eurovision is more important than you think

Europe needs cohesion

Galia Press-Barnathan

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Marx and Nietzsche: how art can save us

How to philosophize with a hammer, sickle and paint brush

Jonas Čeika

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The crisis of creativity

We are losing our grip on creativity; how can we regain it?

Peter Carruthers

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Nietzsche, Dune and the power of religion

God is dead. But not in Dune

Kevin S. Decker

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Shakespeare vs Wittgenstein: the fight for meaning

Lost in tragedy

William Day

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The death of the unreliable narrator

How we killed the narrator, and why we need it back

Margherita Volpato

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The artist is dead, AI killed them

Can AI be genuinely creative?

Henry Shevlin

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Shakespeare vs Wittgenstein: the fight for meaning

Lost in tragedy

William Day

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The ineffability of meaning

Why you can't paraphrase a poem

Stefan Valdemar Snævarr

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Baldwin vs. Nietzsche: How to overcome tragedy

Escaping suffering and representation

Phillip E. Mitchell

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Dostoevsky vs Tolstoy: The Limits of Language

Ineffability and incarnation

John Givens

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Margaret Atwood: A sword is mightier than the pen

"Artists have no actual power"

Margaret Atwood

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Beauty beyond the subjective and objective

Our beliefs about beauty don't match our actions

Filippo Contesi

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Poetry is philosophy

How Dickinson’s poems reveal the depths of the self

Magdalena Ostas

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We must stop thinking photographs depict reality

On the ecology of images

Peter Szendy

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Alienation fuels imagination

Beckett, Bowie, and how to reframe reality

Rodney Sharkey

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The morality of loving villains

The allure of evil on-screen

Panos Paris

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Without relationships there is no self

Memoirs and therapy are not self-indulgent

Elliot Jurist

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Nabokov and why the moral act is the free act

How freedom and morality are intertwined

Dana Dragunoiu

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