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., (Forthcoming, 2026) “Imagination on the Cusp of Impossibility”, The Junkyard, junkyardofthemind.com

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