{"id":8611,"date":"2018-04-26T09:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T08:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8611"},"modified":"2019-03-06T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T16:35:05","slug":"lauren-ware-appraises-kanye-wests-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/04\/26\/lauren-ware-appraises-kanye-wests-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Ware appraises Kanye West&#8217;s tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/staff\/ware.html\">Dr Lauren Ware<\/a>, Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, has featured in a humorous article on the BBC&#8217;s news page, an analysis of US rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanyewest\">Kanye West&#8217;s<\/a> Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>Kanye West has over 18 million followers on Twitter, but had previously deleted all content from his account. West restarted the account on Monday, claiming to write a book in real time with a string of apparently philosophical statements &#8211; including reflections on work, truth and time.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren took up the BBC&#8217;s request for a philosopher to analyse West&#8217;s tweets. On his tweet: &#8216;Truth is my goal. Controversy is my gym. I&#8217;ll do a hundred reps of controversy for a 6 pack of truth,&#8217; Lauren responded &#8216;Kanye identifies here his philosophical methodology: the arrival at truth through controversy.\u00a0Philosophy as the pursuit of truth, the love of wisdom, is well-known, but Kanye&#8217;s embrace of controversy marks him out as genuinely engaging in philosophical practice.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Lauren Ware, Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, has featured in a humorous article on the BBC&#8217;s news page, an analysis of US rapper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/04\/26\/lauren-ware-appraises-kanye-wests-tweets\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":8375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135866,124,18570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8611"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10012,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions\/10012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}