... at the time of decision, to find any way of measuring the worth ofthe activity which led from the “evil” means Even harder then to balance the value ofthe two; the cost ofthe means and the ... explore the complexities ofthe inspiring and alarming arena of biotechnology TheAestheticsof Care? is presented by SymbioticA and The Institute of Advanced Studies, The University of Western ... Interestingly, they both function through a similar logic ofthe elaboration of symbols and the freedom to assemble them They both of deal with the re-arrangements of vast amounts of rich information The...
... happy about the arrival of a friend, then the presupposition of this feeling is the judgment that the friend has arrived and the object ofthe feeling is the corresponding state of affairs.14 ... as the presupposition of aesthetic feelings The shape ofthe ellipse is aesthetically pleasing to look at; the equation in which analytic geometry presents the same shape to the grasp ofthe ... his work of 1904 on the foundations of aesthetics, Witasek published two other books: a textbook of psychology from the Meinongian standpoint (1908) and a classic study ofthe psychology of visual...
... phenomenon and aesthetics as a broader science ofthe conditions of sense perception [3] For the purposes of our argument, we will retain this broader use ofthe term aesthetics , and add the proviso ... revisiting the idea ofthe limits of aesthetic experience might serve to resolve some ofthe oppositions between theory and practice, and intellectual/physical division of labour involved in the production ... stress the programming procedures that lie behind the raw code that in themselves can sense or think nothing Poetry In the tradition of this line of thinking, Hegel elevated the ‘art of sound’ to the...
... Deleuze: TheAestheticsof Force”) Bogue reads Deleuze as offering an “open system” oftheaestheticsof affect arts where at stake is less a definition of art or any demarcation between the aesthetic ... incapable of anticipating the meaning, the ÒWhatÓ ofthe ÒIt happensÉÓ The secret of such ascesis lies in the power to be able to endure occurrences as ÒdirectlyÓ as possible without the mediation of ... variety of objects and practices So, yes, perhaps we can speak of a kind of visual culture after all, not through the notion of a general semiotics, but rather through the notion of a general aesthetics...
... understanding ofthe nature of aesthetic experience and in the process elided the potential contribution ofthe nonvisual senses to the appreciation of pictorial art as ofthe nonauditory senses to the ... banquet of sense – the aroma ofthe wine mingling with the libations of frankincense, the passing from hand to hand ofthe vases from which the guests drank and ofthe lyre with which they accompanied ... point ofthe festivities This vessel was a conveyor of images in the form of line-drawings of human figures (which reflected and modelled the behaviour ofthe guests) and the container of «the...
... dubious, version ofthe notion of silence, which invokes the idea ofthe ineffable.” The theory supposes that the province of art is the beautiful,” which implies effects of unspeakableness, ... microcosm ofthe unhappy character ofthe arts today Art is so far along the labyrinthine pathways ofthe project of transcendence that it’s hard to conceive of it turning back, short ofthe most ... be found in the radical wing ofthe mystical tradition (Cf., among Christian texts, the Mystica Theologica of Dionysius the Areopagite, the anonymous Cloud of Unknowing the writings of Jacob Boehme...
... the latter the camera is placed in the hallway leading to the room that contains the projector Inside the room, the viewer is out ofthe range ofthe camera and therefore nothing appears on the ... through the parenthetical closure ofthe feedback situation to face the camera directly-without the agency ofthe monitor's rolling image If it is the paired movement ofthe video scan and the tape-reel ... de-synchronizing the frequencies ofthe signals on camera and monitor The rhythmic roll ofthe image, as the bottom of its frame scans upward to hit the top ofthe screen, causes a sense of decomposition...
... proliferation ofthe Duce's images, which were filling with their constant presence the daily existence of Italians "The profusion ofthe images is truly incredible The image ofthe Duce is part ofthe ... specimen ofthe "culture of character," exemplified the construction ofthe moral self via the disciplined control of impulses and the internalization of moral values At the beginning ofthe twentieth ... of fascism's sacralized version of politics For Gentile, the festivals ofthe nation, the anniversaries ofthe regime, the cult ofthe Duce, and the consecration of symbols all participated in...
... (1979) TheAestheticsof Architecture London: Methuen & Co Ltd SCRUTON, R (1973) ‘Architectural Aesthetics British Journal of Aesthetics, 13: 327345 VON BONSDORFF, P (2007) ‘Urban Richness and the ... his essay “Architectural Aesthetics , outlines the basis of these problems: In general we might say that our sense ofthe beauty of an object is dependent on a conception of that object…Features ... intermediate form, say ofthe architectural centaur, and in such cases, neither the aesthetic criteria of man nor horse seems appropriate I explore further consequences of this issue in the sections that...
... an image of wholeness than to the actual wholeness ofthe region From the perspective ofthe aesthetic wind appreciator, the wholeness ofthe natural landscape, while real, conceals the larger, ... density ofthe air, (b) the area intercepting the area, (c) the instantaneous wind speed, and that (d) the power in the wind varies with the cube of wind speed (so that if you double the speed ofthe ... of wholeness is one way to go with the thought, and the way that I will be occupied with for the rest ofthe paper As we shall see, wholeness also offers a way of understanding the third of the...
... before the initiation ofthe NARP Even in these selected centres already applying local antibiotic restriction policies the utilisation of many ofthe restricted antibiotics was decreased and the ... changes the antimicrobial resistance patterns of certain pathogens Since parenteral forms of ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin were not restricted for the first three days of therapy by NARP, the consumption ... trend of resistance rates became downwards after implementation of NARP The amount of money saved increased further After two years of NARP 5,389,155.82 USD saving occurred in the selected drugs The...
... Quinn ofthe Department of Energy’s Office of Industrial Technology The committee is particularly grateful to Jim Quinn and Denise Swink and the staff ofthe Office of Industrial Technology for their ... 2-1) Although the primary focus ofthe IOF program was on energy efficiency, the member industries were also large generators of waste and pollutants Thus, the overall goals ofthe IOF program where ... assessment ofthe intermetallic alloy development program and recommendations for the future focus ofthe program, as well as an assessment ofthe implications for the entire OIT program and the transition...
... ASSESSMENT OFTHE OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH’S AIRCRAFT TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM PROGRAMS REVIEWED Propulsion Findings The ONR Code 351 propulsion program consists entirely of a Navy portion ofthe Integrated ... president ofthe National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter ofthe National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy...
... list of critical shortfalls identified at the front part ofthe process Then, with the current state ofthe art and the capabilities ofthe organization in mind, they will propose a series of specific ... rights) while retaining Code 353 as the S&T lead ofthe LC-FNC The committee’s general recommendations for each oftheprogram areas in the LC-FNC portion ofthe MCS&T program Intelligence, Surveillance, ... by the Governing Board ofthe National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils ofthe National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of...
... that the occurrence ofthe numbers 3, 7, and 22, in this series is not a coincidence and the above construction was behind the identification ofthe 22 micronotes in the Indian theory of music The ... historical anecdotes regarding the combinatoric aspects of these numbers are given in Section 7.2.1.7 ofthe classic The Art of Computer Programming of Knuth (2004) Here we use the name Mount Meru since ... article on aesthetics in the 9th edition ofthe Encyclopedia Britannica Next, I present multiplicative variants of Mount Meru and the Fibonacci sequence that may explain why the octave of Indian...
... MB) see the movements ofthe will transposed to the area ofthe mere representation9 that is the exclusive scene ofthe achievements of all the fine arts For these positively demand that the will ... qualities ofthe object that facilitate the knowledge ofthe idea.15 The feeling ofthe sublime, on the other hand, occurs in the presence of forces that are potentially threatening to the individual, ... following aspects of Wagner's text: the relation of music and self-consciousness, the question ofthe position ofthe musical 'genius' and Wagner's categorization of music as the art ofthe 'sublime'...
... authority that will lead to the affirmation ofthe students as Others THE ETHICS OF AESTHETIC RELATIONS We began with the ethical problem ofthe domination ofthe Other in the student±teacher relationship, ... activity of changing the Other, of shaping the Other just as one shapes a piece of art But this requirement to change the Other entails a certain paradox If one does not intend to change the Other, then ... recourse to aesthetics is crucial, and where the `art of teaching' can be given more nuance and applied to the dynamics of relational pedagogy Bakhtin offers a glimpse of how the paradox ofthe asymmetrical...
... reassessing the diagrams that we used for this experiment, we felt that perhaps the problem was in the measurement ofthe presence oftheaestheticsThe metrics, while useful for measuring theaesthetics ... other important aspects: choice ofaesthetics and aesthetic variation 1.12 Choice ofaesthetics Experiment B examined those aesthetics that were tested in experiment A as well as two new aesthetics ... shows the aesthetic values for all the diagrams Note that, because ofthe way the metrics have been defined, "low-effect" diagrams embody an amount ofthe aesthetic for which it is assumed the...
... many of these new experiments are not concerned with new functionality; rather they are explorations of new forms of appearances of computers Often, the goal of these experiments is to make the ... turns into aesthetics: to understand the logic of an expression on the basis of understanding the material that builds the expression We may think of an expression as the presentation of a structure ... with them the specific material form If it is about designing a chair, we may think of variables like the legs, the arms, the back, and the seat of a chair Now, forming a concrete instance of the...
... account ofthe chosen closed class as a true definition or theory ofthe whole open class of tragedy This, I think, is the logical mechanism of most ofthe so-called theories ofthe subconcepts of ... THE ROLE OF THEORY IN AESTHETICS* MORRIS WEITZ Theory has been central in aesthetics and is still the preoccupation ofthe philosophy of art Its main avowed concern remains the determination ... statements about the nature of art In each of these there is the assumption that it is the true enumeration ofthe defining properties of art, with the implication that previous theories have stressed...