Tom Whyman

Tom Whyman is a philosopher and author of ‘Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood and the Future in an Age of Crisis and Disaster’ (2021, Repeater).

Can Art Transform How We Experience Public Space?

Tom Whymanartreview.com25 August 2023

Michael Rakowitz’s ‘The Waiting Gardens of the North’ presents a dream of public space as a place to think, play, be

Why Was ‘Succession’ the Greatest TV Show Ever?

Tom Whymanartreview.com30 May 2023

And if it is to enter the Parthenon of prestige TV, then what does a ‘great’ show even look like?

In ‘Plan 75’, Euthanasia Is the Answer to Loneliness

Tom Whymanartreview.com18 May 2023

A state-run death plan is offered to isolated elderly citizens in new science fiction film ‘Plan 75’, which holds an uncomfortable mirror up to the social atomisation of the present

What ‘Cursed’ Art Tells Us About the Future of AI

Tom Whymanartreview.com19 April 2023

100 gecs’s music, the thought goes, sounds like how the internet feels – but are we clinging to a utopian idea of our digital life?

How Do We Know When Disaster Is Upon Us?

Tom Whymanartreview.com05 April 2023

A new display of Holocaust Letters reveals the ways in which real people become entwined with catastrophe – and challenges our understanding of ‘normality’

Why Do We Still Find Vermeer So Fascinating?

Tom Whymanartreview.com10 March 2023

The Old Master gives us what we might think of as a philosophy, about the relationship between art and everyday life

The Doomed Project of ‘Smart Thinking’

Tom Whymanartreview.com03 March 2023

Philosophy is not here to help you do better at your job