Talks

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Publications

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Talks

“Magic is (not) Dumb: An Aesthetic Critique of Kant and Conjurors,” Presenter - Southwestern Graduate Aesthetics Conference (SWGAC), November 22, 2025, University of Arizona Tucson

“Magicians and their Maledictions: from Wicked Witches to Conjuring Colonizers,” Panelist - camp | fire: TSOA Center for Research & Study Graduate Student Conference, April 4, 2025, New York University

“Of Magicians as Fetish: The Crisis for Women in Magic,” Panelist - Unmasking Objectivity: NSSR Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, March 22, 2024, The New School

“Selfishly Suicidal: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Kant on Suicide,” Panelist - Annual Meeting of the Society of Fellows Academic Conference, March 26, 2022, Pace University

Publications

Kohler, Z., (2026) “Imagination on the Cusp of Impossibility”, The Junkyard, https://junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2026/3/1/imagination-on-the-cusp-of-impossibility

Kohler, Z., (2025) “On The Moral Economy of Exposure”, Journal of Performance Magic 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.5920/jpm.1683

Kohler, Z., Hart, A., (2024) Magic & Fetishism: The Crisis for Women in Magic

Kohler, Z. (n.d.). Selfishly Suicidal: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Kant on Suicide. The Annual Meeting of the Society of Fellows Academic Conference, Pace University. https://philpapers.org/rec/KOHSSE