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Joshua Luther: Meaning - Exhibition Views
Title
Joshua Luther: Meaning - Exhibition Views
Personal Creator
Joshua Luther
Description
A meditation on the relationship between meaning and language. Joshua Luther’s multi-media exhibition is an exciting invitation for visitors to take a step back from the language that we all too often take for granted, and instead contemplate why it is that we are prepared to argue, fight, and sometimes die over various combinations of letter and syllables. Exhibition held in the Locals Only Gallery space.
Subjects
Tree of knowledge, Philosophy, Language, Salt Lake Art Center, epistemology
Local Identifiers
14-0128
2022 - How Modern Gender Values Have Shaped Modern Stoicism Focus - Oral Presentation
Title
2022 - How Modern Gender Values Have Shaped Modern Stoicism Focus - Oral Presentation
Description
Stoic philosophy holds that there is very little that a person can control except their own thoughts and feelings about things. This has led to a philosophy centering around the cultivation of inner virtues, like temperance, courage, practical wisdom, and justice. In the modern resurgence of Stoicism which started in the early nineties and continues today, Stoicism is a philosophy largely characterized by online communities, and active participation in philosophical exercises, in order to cultivate inner virtue in a complex and changing world. However, I argue these modern applications of stoicism have a tendency to become merely an ad hoc application of Stoic thought as a tool for momentary functionality, rather than a life philosophy. The purpose of this paper is to explore this “life-hack Stoicism.” By taking a brief survey of modern Stoic writings, as they appear in the blogs and other texts of prominent practitioners of what-I-am-calling “popular stoicism,” I aim to analyze their effects on the Stoic philosophy as a whole, and how it is practiced today. Namely, I will argue that these writings alter the understandings of Stoicism in ways that align with modern ideas of masculinity and taciturn endurance, and minimize the importance of the Stoic virtues of justice and duty. This is a video of the presentation, "How Modern Gender Values Have Shaped Modern Stoicism Focus" given at the 2022 Undergraduate Projects & Research Conference at Salt Lake Community College. The presenter: Emma Wadsworth. The video can be accessed via YouTube here: https://youtu.be/Kh3KzsmFu7s
Subjects
Philosophy, Social aspects, social ethics, social issues, Social values, stoicism, philosophical movements and attitudes
Local Identifiers
22-0243
2022 - The Evil Song You Sing inside Your Brain: The Antiphilosophical Growth of Nietzsche’s “New Philosophers” - Oral Presentation
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2022 - The Evil Song You Sing inside Your Brain: The Antiphilosophical Growth of Nietzsche’s “New Philosophers” - Oral Presentation
Description
Nietzsche’s philosophy was built as both a prophecy of future philosophy and a call to arms. His target was the “philosophers of the future”, who would rebel against all philosophical norms that exist within the modern world. In this paper, I examine the elements of these “new philosophers”, including a strong skepticism towards modernity, a revaluation of the strong individual, and a rejection of current philosophical thought. Upon evaluation of these traits, I bring to light a further trait that has escaped examination. Nietzsche’s “philosophers of the future” would reject the systems and traditions of philosophy, seeking their own expression of philosophy through other means. Utilizing Boris Groys’ understanding of Antiphilosophy as a sister to Antiart, we can understand Nietzsche’s “new philosophers” to be antiphilosophical, not just in thought, but indeed. With this understanding, I make a short case for an examination of contemporary metal music as the current fertile ground of organic Nietzschean thought. As a continuation of the musical traditions set by Wagner, metal contains many of the elements Nietzsche claims his “new philosophers” would espouse as their guiding principles. Studying this sub-group of contemporary music, we could hope to extract a more nuanced understanding of modern underground Nietzschean thought that has escaped examination thus far. This is a video of the presentation, "The Evil Song You Sing inside Your Brain: The Antiphilosophical Growth of Nietzsche’s “New Philosophers” " given at the 2022 Undergraduate Projects & Research Conference at Salt Lake Community College. The presenter: Austin Karn. The video can be accessed via YouTube here: https://youtu.be/Bgga2r8gb6w
Subjects
Philosophy, philosophical concepts, philosophers, Modern Movement, criticism, critical theory
Local Identifiers
22-0251