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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For the second time this year, Culinary Mind collaborates with Gastronomica, the leading journal of food studies, for the Culinary Mind/Gastronomica Lecture in the Philosophy of food. Take a look at the CFP and consider submitting!

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Culinary Mind @culinarymind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

✨Join us for the second event of our Online Series, the symposium “Food and Markets”, featuring presentations by Teresa Davis, Emma Willoughby and Isabelle Antunes! 🗓️ October 28 at 9:00 AM (CET) / 4:00 PM (SGT) 🔗 Register here to join the event: www.culinarymind.org/activities-s...

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That Dolphy album, what a gem!

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Generativ" funktioniert wie "kreativ". Nicht nur ein Beethoven kann kreativ sein, aber ein auch Terrorist. Natürlich kann man " kreativ" und "generativ" strenger anweden, aber das ist eher stipulativ

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Generativ" beschreibt ein Verfahren, nicht ein Output. Alle LLMs, diffusion models, etc., sind generativ

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F. Contesi @contesi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our art & aesthetics mailing list, Aesth-L, now reaches 1,300 subscribers! Please consider joining and sharing your art & aesthetics news with us (it's free!): liste.unige.it/wws/info/aes...

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aesth-l - International Interdisciplinary Aesthetics Mailing List - info

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The question is more what will the SVP offer them in return of their cooperative silence, as usual.

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Remember the old joke that maths is cheap because it requires only paper, pen and a bin, and philosophy even cheaper because it doesn't even need the bin? The biggest problem with doing philosophy with AI is that it will even rob us of the beauty of that joke...

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Sour grapes... Unbelievably sad!

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Simon J Woolf @simonjwoolf.com · 05/08/2026

An important petition created by a natural winemaker in Slovenian, to fight against a ridiculous change in Slovenian wine law which came into force this February. If you enjoy artisanal wines from Slovenia, please have a read and sign the petition. And share widely! www.change.org/p/a-petition...

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Sign the Petition

A petition to change the new wine law and protect natural wine makers in Slovenia

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Resentment toward natural winemakers who break through internationally is real. Slovenia's are among the world's best — and now their conventional counterparts are coming for them. Support them by signing this petition: www.change.org/p/a-petition...

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Sign the Petition

A petition to change the new wine law and protect natural wine makers in Slovenia

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If Nolan's next movie is not an adaptation of Louis Aragon's Les Aventures de Télémaque, we'll know for sure his project was lacking intellectual ambition.

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F. Contesi @contesi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Two research fellowships in our Aesthetics of Knowledge project. Come work with us! sites.unica.it/aok/news/#jobs

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News – The Aesthetics of Knowledge

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I've been a patient boy, I waited for that one

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I watched some guy's first film yesterday and his newest film today. The first was very, very cheap and very good. The second was very, very expensive and not that good. I am sure there's some ancient Greek moral to all of this 👁️‍🗨️

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is very nice, highly recommended!

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Congrats, this is really nice! Lots of work on finding good literature as well, thanks! I've been trying for a while to write a paper on this from the angle of the philosophy of creativity and the notion of cultivating a creative practice. Also, bonus points for mentioning "Le Ranz des Vaches"!

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Going to Portugal tomorrow for a conference as a heatwave will start there, right after having been through a massive heatwave in Switzerland for over a week. Summer now just feel like a hot, sweaty Kafka novel, and it will only get worse 😵‍💫

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It will appeal to aestheticians of nature, metaphysicians of artifacts, philosophers of food, wine producers, wine amateurs... — and maybe even you. 🍷

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It's also short (130 pages!) and will give you plenty of material to shine at aperitivo time this summer!

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It offers an account of: - the metaphysics of naturefactuality - natural properties - the aesthetic appreciation of nature - the appreciation of naturefactual artifacts - naturefactual practices and their appreciation

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It's a true hybrid: aesthetics meets metaphysics meets philosophy of agriculture meets philosophy of food meets philosophy of technology and design.

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My book is now out! www.routledge.com/A-Philosophy... It's about wine—but also about much more! It introduces a special kind of artifacts, naturefactual ones, which are artifactual vehicles for the appreciation of nature. Natural wine is offered as a paradigm case. 🧵

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A Philosophy of Natural Wine: Nature, Artifacts, and the Space in Between

This book examines whether wine can be natural and explores what this means and why it matters. Natural wine is one of the most contested notions in contemporary food and drink culture. Its defenders ...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is without doubt true. But it's also true of almost any piece of journalism ever written. Which is not an argument pro-AI, btw

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Look no further than: philpapers.org/rec/ZAPADT

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I just read two of the big classics of Balkan literature lately, The Bridge On the Drina by Ivo Andrić and Alamut by Vladimir Bartol, and, unsurprinsingly, these might well be two of the most insightful novels to shed some light on our present times

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

OK, fair enough, I was not aware of that. But that raises other issues about internet philosophy, that I will gladly keep to myself!

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The main problem with this piece is that it is totally self-serving. Everything said there has already been said, and much better said, in the 80's and 90's by the likes of K. Mulligan and M. Nussbaum. Which points to one of "analytic" phil's own flaw: reinventing the wheel and being proud of it

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I met Ivan Novak backstage at a Young Gods show in Ljubljana 2 weeks ago. I am sure he would approve!

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Whenever I am having this discussion with someone, I use this slightly niche example: this song in its original version (youtu.be/McWvOFzajzk?...) and in its rerecorded version a few years later (nickporsche.bandcamp.com/album/big-fi...)

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

You might know that in France they have the so-called "theorem" of "Gödel-Debray," after Régis Debray, that applies to political systems and according to which a political system cannot be justified from within the system (whatever that means...)

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DG MEME @ecmemes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I'm sure he got wiser and smarter in the last years.

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Absolutely. I visited both Muster and Rebenhof on the same day last july in Steiermark. Distance between them is very short, but the wines couldn't be more different and totally felt like expressions of their makers' personalities

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Only took notice now of the death of Malcolm Budd. Never had the chance to meet him, but very fine philosopher. Also, he never replied to my emails, which shows his soundness of judgment.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/02/2026

See the ski jumper Domen Prevc of Team Slovenia fly through a snow squall during a competition.

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Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Snow Jump

A ski jumper flies through a flurry of snowflakes.

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I dreamed I found a 6 volume PhD thesis on Wittgenstein by ex-cyclist Richard Virenque in an obscure French academic library that also happened to serve good Italian food. The first volume was a historical contextualisation and contained only reproductions of Belle Époque ads for aperitives.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

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l'Humanité @humanite.fr · 01/12/2025

En Croatie, une manifestation massive contre la montée de l’extrême droite et le révisionnisme ➡️ l.humanite.fr/jpf

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Today is philosophy day. Philosophy is hard (as Gareth Evans once put it). But that doesn't mean that, thereby, today is a hard day. How strange.

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Patrik Engisch @pateng.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

It has sometimes been my feeling that teleosemanticians think that the real “telos” of teleosemantics is to work…

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