Aristotle compared the work of art to a living organism and likened artistic production to biological reproduction.
Tag: PHILOSOPHY
The Vitality of Digital Creation
The recent emergence and rapid growth of computer technology has transformed “digital image” from a confounding oxymoron to a ubiquitous sine qua non.
Refiguring Culture
The longstanding Platonic dichotomy between ideas and images is being challenged as digital media supersede analog ones and computers take an active role in managing the spectacle.
Piece: Contra Aesthetics
Falling within the subject matter of aesthetics is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for being art.
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On the Truth and Probity of Metaphor
Rightfully understood, metaphor proves itself capable of as simple and straightforward a truth as literal language.
The Principle of Expressibilty
The tenet that “Whatever can be meant can be said” belittles poetry as inessential to linguistic communication.
On Reading Investigations §43
Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchVol 31 No 3 (1971)pp. 429-432 (4 pages) Available to print and download on JSTOR. Citations
Sublime Art
Neither the landscape nor its “abstraction” in Modern art is genuinely sublime. We must look instead to the development of Literalism to find the sublime expressed in art.
Warranting Metaphor
We cannot tell whether a sentence is true or false until we know whether it is used literally or metaphorically.
Consensus and the Justification of Force
How can we tell when the use of force is justified?