Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim
Philosophy prof @UArizona 🌵/ @Stanford PhD / Executive Editor, SEP / writing about fiction, art, time, E. Asian phil / bylines in @WIRED, @LATimes, @USAToday + hannahkimphilosophy.com Joined August 2021-
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📚 My "Fictions that don't tell the truth" is now out (OA) in 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀. I review several literary examples (spanning from JL Borges to the Turner Diaries) to explore the distinction between *fictions* and *lies* link.springer.com/article/10.100…
when someone interrupts or distracts you in Persian you say “you broke/cut the thread of my thoughts.” like, your mind is your weaving loom, your consciousness is the warp thread, your thoughts are the weft.
Experts who write fearfully about misinformation often depict humans as gullible saps whose zombie minds are infected by lies spread by social media. In this week's @NewYorker, I argue that these writers get something fundamentally wrong how beliefs work: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
PLATO has launched a national fellowship program for graduate students. Deadline is April 30! plato-philosophy.org/programs-for-e…
The golden rule of academic etiquette: If the public speaker makes direct eye contact with you, you respond with an enthusiastic nod of encouragement.
“Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.” Andrei Tarkovsky
In Turkish, instead of writing "et al." which corresponds to "and others," they write "ve ark." which corresponds to "and friends." I love it.
Bae Yoon Sae arriving 🇰🇷🙈 (though "Pretty Kimchi"... really??) (that modified hanbok is so sick)
April 1: The Purge, but for epistemology
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12K Followers 2K Following Columbia University trained poet & translator. MFA @Columbia. Author of The Minister of Disturbances (@DiodeEditions, '20) Poetry Editor @pestemagazineI grew up in Chengdu, where police beat student protesters to death following Tiananmen. I keep thinking about how scared my mom, then a high schooler, still was decades later when she told me what it was like (and never wanted to talk about it again). this is so personal to me.
In 1989, after the PRC leaders sent military to clear Tiananmen Square, the president of Beijing University welcomed students back to campus and KEPT THE MILITARY OUT of the BeiDa gates--protecting his students at great personal political risk. 🧵
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Why did I not know that Yeats had a brother who painted deeply weird and gorgeously creepy oil paintings?
📚 My "Fictions that don't tell the truth" is now out (OA) in 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀. I review several literary examples (spanning from JL Borges to the Turner Diaries) to explore the distinction between *fictions* and *lies* link.springer.com/article/10.100…
received the news today that I was promoted to Professor! it feels good to have my work recognized, and I am excited to bigger and cooler things in this new stage! If you were one of my letter writers, I want to thank you. I know that it's hard work and I am very thankful.
I'm so proud of my extraordinarily talented partner @MegJNesmith for writing a gorgeous novel and selling it in a tough market. A World Apart is beautifully written and engrossing! Look for it in early 2026! thebookseller.com/rights/head-of…
@daybreakjung She cast her eyeballs on your writing Blessing them With her formalist gaze
It's obvious that continental philosophers are tortured poets but surprising that the opposite -- sanguine accountants -- describes analytic philosophers so well
After the administrative restructuring, analytic philosophers will be housed in the sanguine accountants department
It’s Kant, Lenin, Nabokov, and Oppenheimer’s birthday today. Who’s party are you going to?
Delighted to see @akorinek's work featured in Time! Anton was kind enough to blurb my recent book and is doing essential research on AI and the future of work! time.com/6966882/econom…
The eponymous department being “Tortured” signifies Dr. T Swift’s affirmation of Aristotle’s preference on tragedy over comedy and history. In this essay I will
I genuinely find it plausible that Taylor Swift is interested in Aristotle.
Do we have a word for that glorious period in a professor’s life in between their final class meeting and the day the final papers are due?
Profiling Dan Dennett was one of the peak experiences of my life. It wasn't just that his thinking changed mine, but that he was an inspiring human being, full of curiosity, vitality, and creativity. We should all try to be a little more like Dan. newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
for @parisreview, Anne Carson and I discussed the nature of translation, her contract with the light, and making time stop. theparisreview.org/blog/2024/04/1…
Surprised, happy, and honored for this award. I feel very lucky to teach our amazing students at Penn!
You should get tax breaks for not driving, for not owning a car, for commuting by public transit. It's a total policy mindfuck that drivers get subsidies for new electric cars ostensibly for the environment but the minimal impact of non-drivers isn't recognized whatsoever.
I’m here for a kairos, not for a chronos
Ok, but I'd rather live well than live a lot longer. Give me cigarettes, whisky, and late night conversations or give me death.
I am grateful to @ResearchCGHE for the opportunity to engage with this research. We advocate about the need to engage with Asian philosophy, the Korean concept of jeong, to rethink the community oriented social good role of higher education. researchcghe.org/news/2024-04-0…