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Omar Baig

Washington, D.C.
Covers:  Philosophy, political theory, contemporary art, intellectual history, post-modernism, music, television, and entertainment

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I am a freelance philosopher and art critic from the Washington D.C. area.

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The Guggenheim Goes "Off The Record" (Apr 2-Sept 27, 2021) | 3 Quarks Daily

The Guggenheim Goes "Off The Record" (Apr 2-Sept 27, 2021) | 3 Quarks Daily

A 3,000-word review of The Guggenheim Museum’s Off The Record (Apr 2-Sept 27, 2021), which features responses…

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Cora Diamond and the Ethics of No-Kill (or Lab Grown) Meat | 3 Quarks Daily

Cora Diamond and the Ethics of No-Kill (or Lab Grown) Meat | 3 Quarks Daily

A 3,000-word article on the philosopher Cora Diamond, non-moralistic ethics, and the moral status of non-huma…

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Notes on nonsense

Notes on nonsense

A hybrid essay on the philosophy of nonsense, interspersed with my personal accounts of working with adults w…

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Brand New Mediums of Art

Brand New Mediums of Art

The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden concluded their recent exhibit, Brand New: Art and Co…

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A Guide to Timothy Morton's "Humankind" (2017)

A Guide to Timothy Morton's "Humankind" (2017)

"A specter is haunting the specter of communism," Timothy Morton announces in Humankind (2017), "the specter …

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A Guide to Timothy Morton's "Humankind" (Part Two)

A Guide to Timothy Morton's "Humankind" (Part Two)

An in-depth, chapter-by-chapter guide to Timothy Morton's "Humankind" (2017)

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Father Richard Rohr’s Contemplative Backdoor To Antiwork Praxis

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by Omar Baig Richard Rohr with his book, The Universal Christ (2019). Conservative and Evangelical Christians—with their provincial notions of Jesus as dying on the cross for their sins—denounce the Cosmic Christ of Father Richard Rohr as new age heresy. Yet some Christians may not even realize that Jesus and Christ are not the same. As if, he jokes, Christ was simply the last name of Jesus.
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The Guggenheim Goes "Off The Record" (Apr 2—Sept 27, 2021) | 3 Quarks Daily

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by Omar Baig On October 23rd 2020, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum reopened their flagship, Frank Lloyd Wright designed building on NYC’s iconic Museum Mile at 25% capacity and expanded to 50% by April 27th, 2021. Associate Curator, Ashley James selected pieces from Guggenheim’s permanent collection: by 13 contemporary artists, like Carrie Mae Weems, Carlos Motto, and Sable Elyse Smith, for Off The Record (Apr 2—Sept 27, 2021).
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Cora Diamond and the Ethics of No-Kill Meat

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by Omar Baig In 2019, Diamond delivered the American Philosophical Association’s John Dewey Lectures (Eastern Division): “Philosophers who teach at colleges and universities, and who don’t have a Ph.D., are a kind of dinosaur. We were widespread, but there are only a few of us left…. Soon we will all have died out.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Contributor for The Mantle

How is social media changing news?

By creating insular echo chambers that promote misinformation or propaganda and disproportionately elevate otherwise minor stories or threats

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Howard Beale from "The Network" (1976), Jay Sherman from "The Critic" (1994-2001), Diane Nguyen from "Bojack Horseman" (2014-2020).

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