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Hannah Kim

@thisishannahkim.bsky.social

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Philosophy professor, Univ of Arizona 🌵 executive team at SEP 👩‍💻 thinking about fiction, poetry, music, movies, time, VR, AI & East Asian thought 🇰🇷🇰🇵 freelancer for philosophy, arts & culture ✌️ www.hannahkimphilosophy.com

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 13h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social · 9d

Wow, One Battle After Another was phenomenal. Incredible pacing, great soundtrack, A+ acting from everyone, timely issues. Just great storytelling all around. Go see it in theaters while it's playing!!

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 27d

Linguistics

Grig "Punkie" Larson @griglars.bsky.social · 27d

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Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social · 15d

Wow, what a stunning poem

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Sep 22

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

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Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social · 21d

Nearly emailed it to you when I found it cuz I loved it so much haha!

Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social · 21d

Woot! 🙌

Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social · 21d

Wow thats stunning! Maybe Saturday morning!!

Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social · 21d

Just got to Purdue for the Modern Fiction Studies ~Cultural AI~ conference! Excited to present a new paper, coauthored w/ @aaronrhanlon.com, that LLM outputs constitute a new genre we're calling stochascript & learn what others are working on. Also excited about this super cute PPT template 🤓

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · Sep 5

-oid is a great suffix.
asteroid = looks like a star
factoid = looks like a fact
android = looks like a guy

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Brian Weatherson @bweatherson.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is a good heuristic for when you should and shouldn’t take academics seriously when they try to intervene in debates outside their specialty.

Do they have respect for the problem?

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · Sep 5

my favourite slogan - "respect for the problem" backofmind.substack.com/p/respect-fo...

respect for the problem

more wisdom from Will

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Gregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social · Aug 27

Interesting article on Aztec moral philosophy. Life on the slippery Earth: Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition, not least its acceptance that nobody is perfect. aeon.co/essays/aztec...

Aztec moral philosophy didn’t expect anyone to be a saint | Aeon Essays

Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition, not least its acceptance that nobody is perfect

aeon.co

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Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social · Aug 28

I'm obsessed with Cong caphe!!! Such good stuff.

Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social · Aug 22

Feeling the same about this book!! Laura Goode opened up the non-academic publishing world for me & we're so lucky that this book, which is based on the class she taught, now exists 💫

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Aug 22

Guys I can’t tell you how excited I am for this book!

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Brian Weatherson @bweatherson.bsky.social · Aug 14

22 new papers up at @philimprint.bsky.social, including papers by @thisishannahkim.bsky.social, @catsaintcroix.bsky.social, @wiglet1981.bsky.social & @jweisber.bsky.social, @dellsen.bsky.social, @bartstreumer.bsky.social, and @aworsnip.bsky.social.

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Philosophers' Imprint

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Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social · Aug 16

12 years ago, a friend brought a poem to my birthday party & it was love at first read. Wrote a paper about it in grad school & its descendent just came out with my favorite open access journal 🥹

If you're not familiar w/ Eliot's Four Quartets, read it now!! (Burnt Norton is the first quartet)

Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

Just published:

Hannah H. Kim, (2025) “Metaphysics as a Means in “Burnt Norton””, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 7. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Metaphysics as a Means in “Burnt Norton”

Philosophy-and-literature as a subfield theorizes about the relationship between the two. Though few would explicitly say that philosophy is the point and literature the means, it’s common to see disc...

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Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thank you for reading!! Agreed that it's a phenomenal poem

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · Aug 1

That's how you can tell human authors from AI.

AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.

Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

dinsdale press @dinsdalepress.bsky.social · Aug 1

Em dashes, like anything, should be used in moderation. Check first with your editor if em dashes are right for you. 😉

#WriteSky #WritingTips

Sure, your work is allowed to have some em dashes.
Okay, wait. That's perhaps a bit too many.
No, seriously, stop!
PUT THAT EM DASH DOWN
THIS INSTANT!

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · Aug 2

The dance of death scene from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957)

The dance of death scene from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957) pasted into the rolling hillside wallpaper from Windows 95 with the caption: “The Seventh Seal” at The Sphere (2025)

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Aug 1

August arrives in the dark

we are not even asleep and it is here

how can it be so late all at once

-WS Merwin, Nocturne II
from The Shadow of Sirius
#everynightapoem

August arrives in the dark
we are not even asleep and it is here with a gust of rain rustling before it
how can it be so late all at once
somewhere the Perseids are falling toward us already at a speed that would
burn us alive if we could believe it
but in the stillness after the rain ends
nothing is to be heard but the drops falling one at a time from the tips of the leaves
into the night and I lie in the dark
listening to what I remember
while the night flies on with us into itself

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Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social · Jul 31

If you also like non-gummy forms of sourness, the other 15% of my caloric intake has been fruit riot, frozen fruit covered in sour coating 🤩

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Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social · Jul 31

Same

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Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social · Jul 30

Congrats, Emmie!!

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Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social · Jul 30

I'll be live on Daniel Muñoz's substack this Friday at 2pm ET! We'll talk about the connection between music and philosophy, stories, North Korean philosophy, and whatever else that comes up (... Alex R's D at conferences? 👀)

Learn more + submit Qs here!

bigifftrue.substack.com/p/aesthetics...

What would you ask Hannah Kim?

Submit questions for Substack Live, this Friday @ 2pm

bigifftrue.substack.com

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