8. The Aesthetics of Immersion: Blind Light by Antony Gormley
Some works of contemporary art sometimes give us disturbing, strange, immersive emotions, without offering any object to see or feel. These are devices that disorient and decondition the viewer’s habits. Among them we can notice the installation Blind Light by Antony Gormley (2007), which leads our perception to new sensory discoveries (1). By excluding the […]
9. Conclusion
By reexamining Michaud’s notion of the pluralism of artistic practices and values, I have attempted to reconstruct the aesthetic rationality that manifests itself through specific arguments about the qualities of works of art. It is about the analysis and the union of language games in the Wittgensteinian sense that allows us to account for our […]
Clarke’s naturalized epistemology
Unlike Quine, Murray Clarke is defending a weak replacement thesis of naturalized epistemology. Clarke argues that accurate indexical representations (a belief about the here and now which moves us to action) have been crucial for the survival and reproduction of homo sapiens. He suggests that reliable processes have been “selected for” because of their indirect, […]