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Aesthetics Research Group - Archive

Audio, video and photos:

Kendall Walton and The Aesthetics of Photography and Film (2007)

• Photos from the Symposium
• Videos of all lectures (flash format)

Jerrold Levinson: Key Concepts in Aesthetics (2008-09)

• Photos from the lecture series
• Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'The Aesthetic' (mp3 - 1hr 36s)
• Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Beauty' (mp3 - 1hr 14mins)
• Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Art' (mp3 - 1hr 13s)
• Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'The Artwork' (mp3 - 1 hr 12m
• Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artform' (mp3 - 1hr 14m)
• Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artistic form' (mp3 - 1hr 20m)
• Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artistic expression' (mp3 - 1hr 04m)
• Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artistic Interpretation' (mp3 - 1 hr 25m)
• Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artistic Value' (mp3 - 1hr 28m)

Research Seminars (ongoing)

• Audio - Roger Scruton: 'Confessions of a reluctant Francophile' (mp3 - 47m 4sec)
• Audio - Cynthia Freeland: 'Why Some Art Should Be Censored' (mp3 - 44mins 7secs)
• Audio - Aaron Meskin: 'Kinds of Multiples' (mp3 - 53mins 39secs)
• Audio - Howard Caygill: ‘Sun Pictures - Photography And The Astronomic Image’ (mp3 - 56mins 24secs)
• Audio - Noël Carroll: ‘The Problem with Movie Stars’ (Introduction by Murray Smith) (mp3 - 57mins 09secs)
  This paper is published in Scott Walden (ed.), Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature, New York: Blackwell, 2008.
• Audio - Andrew Kania: ‘The Death of the Narrator: Fiction and Narrative in Literature and Film’ (mp3 - 1hr 33 secs)
• Audio - Jerrold Levinson: 'Defending Hypothetical Intentionalism' (excerpt - mp3 - 19m 28s)
• Audio - Jennifer McMahon: 'Aesthetic Autonomy: the Expression of Freedom (a Pragmatist Reading of Adorno) (mp3 - 1hr 4min 39s)
• Audio - Aaron Meskin: 'Authenticity in the Hybrid and Digital Arts' (mp3 - 50m 35s)
• Audio - Andreas De Block: 'Superstimuli, evolution, and the arts' (mp3 - 58m 47s)

Art, Aesthetics and the Sexual (2009)

• Photos from the conference
• Video - Cain Todd (University of Lancaster): ‘Imagination, Fantasy, and Sexual Desire: the aesthetic and the pornographic attitude’
  Respondent: Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland)
• Video - Kathleen Stock (University of Sussex): ‘What Pornography Can Tell Us About Imaginative Responses to Fiction’
  Respondent: Murray Smith (University of Kent)
• Video - David Davies (McGill University): ‘Is Pornography in the (Intended) Eye of the Beholder?’
  Respondent: Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham University)
• Audio - Rob van Gerwen: ‘How to do Things with Pictures: Pornography and Real Sexuality’ (mp3 52m 40s)
  Response by Ted Nannicelli (mp3 19m 53s)
• Audio - Susan Dwyer: ‘Docusex: Display and Desire in Internet Pornography’ (mp3 45m 40s)
  Response by Elizabeth Cowie (mp3 19m 01s)
• Audio - Alex Neill: ‘The Pornographic, the Erotic, and the Charming: remarks on a Schopenhauerian theme’ (mp3 45m 36s)
  Response by Jerrold Levinson (mp3 12m 28s)

Aesthetics, Art and Pornography (2011)

Website (in collaboration with the Aesthetics Research Group, University of Kent)

The aim of this conference is to investigate, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature. More