When I mentioned the other day that I was thinking about posting one of my aesthetics papers - specifically one focusing on depiction - I was surprised at the response I received via email. I’ve looked over the one I’m leaning towards putting up, and I’ve decided that I’m happy to let you all read it, but as Crispy can confirm, it’s probably not that interesting if you haven’t read the theories I’m critiquing. To that end, here’s a short reading list of the texts you’ll find me referring to if and when you end up reading the paper. Both these books and my paper will assume at least a little background in analytic philosophy. Understanding Pictures is ferociously expensive, but Lopes has an interesting account of depiction - it’s probably available in libraries. The other text you might want to take a look at is Kendall Walton’s massive Mimesis As Make-Believe. As for my paper, expect it sometime next week.