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The Aesthetics of Transience in Japanese Culture: Wabi-sabi, Impermanence, and the Philosophy of Décoïncidence
The article examines the concept of wabi-sabi as the foundation of Japanese aesthetics, emphasizing its role in art and everyday life. Wabi-sabi celebrates the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and natural decay, which is expressed in practices such as the tea ceremony (chanoyu). In the context of art, this aesthetic allows for reflection on the transience of existence, contrasting with the Western tradition of vanitas. The wabi-sabi aesthetic evokes an emotional response akin to Julien’s notion of dé-coïncidence – the experience of contradiction between what is enduring and what is ephemeral, a key element of the Japanese approach to impermanence. The article juxtaposes these manifestations of transience, showcasing both universal and culturally specific ways of coping with the passage of time.
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The Psychology of Static Imagery in the Book of Al-Mab’ath and Al-Maghazi: A Narrative Semiotic Study
The text represents a network of signs interconnected with each other, and this interconnection is determined by the nature of the elements composing the text. These may be grammatical, rhetorical, or structural relations, represented by metaphor, metonymy, and other techniques that help in uncovering threads of meaning and tracing its movements within that structure. This representation is \"a verbal activity where the speaker's role is not to control the use of semantic systems but to utilize them in light of the appropriate conditions for the discourse event\" (Al-Badi, 2024, p. 70), which is determined by the general context of the sentence and its integrated structural construction. The components of narration and their coherence within a single work, being an aesthetic feature, are based on the ideologization of reality as imaginative and its connection to levels of language to make it more realistic through interpretive relationships that generate new meanings. These meanings transcend the superficial appearance to the deeper level, which can only be grasped by delving into the backgrounds that shape the literary work (Khamri, 2024, p. 244). It explores the aesthetics of structure, which is considered a characteristic of everything that indicates beauty, is attributed to it, or is connected to what is beautiful and what is not beautiful (Alloush, 2024, p. 62).
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The aesthetic mind : philosophy and psychology
The Aesthetic Mind breaks new ground in bringing together empirical sciences and philosophy to enhance our understanding of aesthetics and the experience of art. An eminent international team of experts presents new research in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and social anthropology: they explore the roles of emotion, imagination, empathy, and beauty in this realm of human experience, ranging over visual and literary art, music, and dance. Among the questions discussed are: Why do we engage with things aesthetically and why do we create art? Does art or aesthetic experience have a function or functions? Which characteristics distinguish aesthetic mental states? Which skills or abilities do we put to use when we engage aesthetically with an object and how does that compare with non-aesthetic experiences? What does our ability to create art and engage aesthetically with things tell us about what it is to be a human being? This ambitious and far-reaching volume is essential reading for anyone investigating the aesthetic and the artistic.
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Sensibility and sense : the aesthetic transformation of the human world
\"Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an aesthetic mode of experience. Extending the range of aesthetic experience from the stone of the earths surface to the celestial sphere, the book focuses on the aesthetic as a dimension of social experience. The guiding idea of pervasive interconnectedness, both social and environmental, leads to an aesthetic critique of the urban environment, the environment of daily life, and of terrorism, and has profound implications for grounding social and political values. The aesthetic emerges as a powerful critical tool for appraising urban culture and political practice.\"--BOOK JACKET.
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Herder
Among his generation of intellectuals, the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder is recognized both for his innovative philosophy of language and history and for his passionate criticism of racism, colonialism, and imperialism. A student of Immanuel Kant, Herder challenged the idea that anyone - even the philosophers of the Enlightenment - could have a monopoly on truth.
InHerder: Aesthetics against Imperialism, John K. Noyes plumbs the connections between Herder's anti-imperialism, often acknowledged but rarely explored in depth, and his epistemological investigations. Noyes argues that Herder's anti-rationalist epistemology, his rejection of universal conceptions of truth, knowledge, and justice, constitutes the first attempt to establish not just a moral but an epistemological foundation for anti-imperialism. Engaging with the work of postcolonial theorists such Dipesh Chakrabarty and Gayatri Spivak, this book is a valuable reassessment of Enlightenment anti-imperialism that demonstrates Herder's continuing relevance to postcolonial studies today.
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Aesthetics of interaction in digital art
An art-historical perspective on interactive media art that provides theoretical and methodological tools for understanding and analyzing digital art.Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academic art history. In this book, Katja Kwastek argues that the particular aesthetic experience enabled by these new media works can open up new perspectives for our understanding of art and media alike. Kwastek, herself an art historian, offers a set of theoretical and methodological tools that are suitable for understanding and analyzing not only new media art but also other contemporary art forms. Addressing both the theoretician and the practitioner, Kwastek provides an introduction to the history and the terminology of interactive art, a theory of the aesthetics of interaction, and exemplary case studies of interactive media art.Kwastek lays the historical and theoretical groundwork and then develops an aesthetics of interaction, discussing such aspects as real space and data space, temporal structures, instrumental and phenomenal perspectives, and the relationship between materiality and interpretability. Finally, she applies her theory to specific works of interactive media art, including narratives in virtual and real space, interactive installations, and performance-with case studies of works by Olia Lialina, Susanne Berkenheger, Stefan Schemat, Teri Rueb, Lynn Hershman, Agnes Hegedüs, Tmema, David Rokeby, Sonia Cillari, and Blast Theory.
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