In Plato’s view, it is not what we learn about art that is most important, but what we learn from it. For him, education in art is education by art. … In describing what the craft of education involves, Socrates is not simply drawing an analogy between the body and the soul…To see what is […]
Thoreau and Okakura devoted their professional time to writing about living, especially about what constitutes a life well lived. They were concerned with the problem of character and how it is most deeply informed by the attitude toward mortality. They both explored the idea of daily living not as an abstract idea, but a concrete […]
…a conversation on what we love about art and philosophy, and how that love has ineluctably become a part of our own living. We talk about how art and philosophy can help one live more fully, each and every day…Art – so called – high Art, with a capital A – is usually set a […]
Such a vision of the work of the mind leaves it open to anyone that has a desire for it. Intellectual life is not merely professional activity, to be left to experts. Because its central goods are good universally, it belongs in taxicabs, at the beach house or the book club, in the break room […]
…many of the new forms of collaborative and participatory art make no distinction between art as political praxis and political praxis itself; art, it is claimed, is a form of political praxis. … …”enclosure” is as much cognitive and cultural as it is economic. … This has produced a range of practices along two fundamental […]
When it happens that a worklike approach to life becomes one’s only approach, this special difficulty is termed work-fixation. Work-fixation turns every experience into work – even playing, dancing, or relaxing. Work-fixation is not the same as spending long hours at an office. Nor is it necessarily avoided by spending much time pursuing leisure-time activities. […]
…socially engaged art is not simply a development within the art field to be described from an art historical perspective alone, but rather a specific form of activity within society. … This is because Beuys was concerned with the development of an understanding of art in which artistic practice is understood as an anthropological activity […]
[mise en scène] Multiple lines of inquiry – to enact a series of expansions from art to aesthetics and thus art education to aesthetic education. This would then entail using a synthesis of John Dewey’s theory of experience and experimentalism. The model of “experiment” would be the iterative approach of design rather than the narrower […]
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The shift: Library science -> Information Science only tells part of the story. Science is an inadequate model, as is information. The dominant paradigm: Information -> Knowledge is incomplete. Librarians must be attentive to meaning, not just information/knowledge. Epistemology -> Semiotics but ultimately the core of librarianship is experience design. Aesthetics then, becomes a core […]
Image via Jerzy Ludwiński Notes from the Future of Art “…one can think of art as a star that exploded long ago and we mistakenly believe that the originating object still exists because the light from it still shines so brightly. This would mean that what we call “the art world” now is just the Baudrillardian […]
Summaries found here. Conjurations bring manifestations of objects, creatures, or some form of energy to you. Transmutation spells change the properties of some creature, thing, or condition. Abjurations are protective spells. They create physical or magical barriers. Illusion spells deceive the senses or minds of others. They cause people to see things that are […]
Way back in the day Jen Delos Reyes and I (among others), started a journal devoted to social practice. Gone, but not forgotten – the original domain is now a porn site, but you can still find the material here. I even gave it a face lift.