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Tom Lordan

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Irish Art Critic | The Irish Times, Frieze, Paper Visual Art | Philosophy & Aesthetics - Filosofia y Estética - Philosophie & Ästhetik

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Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · Nov 21

Wrote a catalogue essay for Cian McLoughlin's incredible 'Zero Is An Even Number' at the Molesworth Gallery. McLoughlin's arresting style is always evolving, though aesthetic and conceptual themes connect each stage of practice.

Full essay: www.cianmcloughlin.com/news/40-tom-...

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 1d

Brother wedding!

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 1d

I don't review shite I don't care about.

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 1d

Preach! 🙌

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 3d

İlaç kullanırken konuşmak - Freudyen psikanaliz gibi, LSD ile

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 3d

Latest review for @irishtimes.com was on Ella Bertilsson's Slippery Like Mango Juice at the #Horse gallery on Bethesda Place, around the corner from the #HughLane.

Violence simmered below the playful surface, along with ruminations on dislocation, alienation.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...

Ella Bertilsson: Slippery Like Mango Juice review – Violence simmers below a playful surface

Ella Bertilsson’s work oscillates between pointed satire and reflections on social isolation

www.irishtimes.com

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 8d

Just want to say thanks for these recommendations Rebecca! They always pop up for me - I really appreciate your taste / instincts in philosophy. Thank you 🙏

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 8d

Wow the king himself! Curry is amazing! 👏

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 9d

This is just so adorable my mind is broken.

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 9d

A near-to-the-end mesmerising scene turns the road into an ocean swell, inducing seasick nausea; the tarmac is fluid, is water. The drivers aren't on solid ground, they're surfing.

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 9d

It has nods to both the 1970s and contemporary era, which also put me in mind if Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. It also features one of the most insane Christmas-oriented white supremacist military cults. All of the actors are outstanding.

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 9d

Instead, a long, explosive prologue is followed by an unspooling confluence of events, taking place over and on top of each other, in a compressed day or two. Dialogue doesn't play much of a role, except to heighten absurdity, paranoia, to evidence hatred.

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 9d

Saw PTA's new film One Battle After Another yesterday. Definitely enjoyed it, though I'd like to see it again - hard to wrap my head around it. Some intriguing resonances with Aster's satire Eddington. An unusual narrative form: it wasn't a journey, it wasn't episodic...

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 12d

Eu sei, é de partir o coração - fique longe do inglês! Kkk

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 12d

Como um irlandês que fala a língua o tempo todo, eu apoio totalmente o seu ódio 👏

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 14d

Extremely interesting database! Fantastic resource.

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 14d

Fascinating abstract - must check out Jan Patocka! The comparison with Lyotard sounds very fruitful.

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 15d

"If one wishes to label me 'analytic', I will accept it only with the clarification that mine is a special form."

Lorenz Puntel in 2022.

#philsky #structureandbeing

youtu.be/YyuTwa1XtJA?...

Sein und Nichts - der Philosoph Lorenz Bruno Puntel im Gespräch

YouTube video by Loyola Productions Munich - Visualizing Minds

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 15d

Parabéns! 👏👏👏

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 18d

I saw Regina Rini deliver a keynote speech at the British Society of Aesthetics conference a few years ago, on the subject of AI, art, and the Kantian sublime. It was brilliant - I think about it often!

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 22d

Very impressive!

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 22d

Eu entendo — isso é irritante! Esses tipos de personagens são distrações — é tudo uma questão de ego, eles obviamente seriam completamente inúteis em um governo de verdade.

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 22d

Você acha que um candidato como McGregor se sairia bem no Brasil?

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 22d

É difícil acreditar que esse palhaço sequer pensou que poderia ser presidente - nosso atual presidente é amado por todos e ele é um poeta e acadêmico de esquerda! Não muito parecido kkk

Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social · 23d

Latest @irishtimes.com review is centred on the @helengblake.bsky.social beautiful exhibition Let The Rules Be Soft.

I discuss Blake's process of stratification and structured absences, the human and the inhuman, and her evocation of the transcendental.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...

Helen Blake: Let the Rules Be Soft review – An absorbing, unmissable exhibition

Visual art: At the Molesworth Gallery in Dublin, Helen Blake’s immediately recognisable paintings are profoundly compelling

www.irishtimes.com

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UCC Philosophy @uccphilosophy.bsky.social · 24d

The opening talk of this year’s Boole Lectures in Philosophy will be delivered by Prof. Roberta Sala (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy)

Title: Unreasonable Agents in the Digital Era

Venue and time: CACSSS Seminar Room | Wednesday, September 17th, 1600-1800

Everybody is welcome!