{"id":331,"date":"2022-04-27T12:10:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/escarbro\/?p=331"},"modified":"2022-04-27T12:13:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:13:13","slug":"ruinlust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/escarbro\/2022\/04\/27\/ruinlust\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruinlust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A while back Brandon Polite interviewed me about the aesthetic importance of ruins. His series, &#8220;Polite Conversations&#8221; (get it, his name is Professor Polite?), has really taken off! I urge you to watch all of his videos. He has lovingly closed-captioned all of them. In this interview, I talk about what makes ruins aesthetically interesting. I was also experiencing vertigo at the time of the interview so I was really hesitant to accept his kind offer to be interviewed. But it turned out ok &#8211; so here it is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ep. 08: The Aesthetic Appreciation of Ruins | A Discussion with Elizabeth Scarbrough\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9pQHAIHq2Ro?start=420&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Brandon Polite interviews Elizabeth Scarbrough about the aesthetic appreciation of ruins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/aestheticsforbirds.com\/2022\/01\/27\/polite-conversations-philosophers-discuss-the-arts\/#aestheticsofruins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aesthetics for Birds<\/a>, has also done us a service by listing all of Brandon&#8217;s interviews along with discussion questions and recommended readings. You can find that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/aestheticsforbirds.com\/2022\/01\/27\/polite-conversations-philosophers-discuss-the-arts\/#aestheticsofruins\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back Brandon Polite interviewed me about the aesthetic importance of ruins. His series, &#8220;Polite Conversations&#8221; (get it, his name is Professor Polite?), has really taken off! I urge you to watch all of his videos. He has lovingly closed-captioned all of them. In this interview, I talk about what makes ruins aesthetically interesting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":422,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-art","category-interview","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/escarbro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/escarbro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/escarbro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/escarbro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/escarbro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/escarbro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/escarbro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/escarbro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/escarbro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}