Aesthetics of Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aesthetics of Change write by Bradford P. Keeney. This book was released on 2017-02-13. Aesthetics of Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fundamental concern of psychotherapy is change. While practitioners are constantly greeted with new strategies, techniques, programs, and interventions, this book argues that the full benefits of the therapeutic process cannot be realized without fundamental revision of the concept of change itself. Applying cybernetic thought to family therapy, Bradford P. Keeney demonstrates that conventional epistemology, in which cause and effect have a linear relationship, does not sufficiently accommodate the reciprocal nature of causation in experience. Written in an unconventional style that includes stories, case examples, and imagined dialogues between an epistemologist and a skeptical therapist, the volume presents a philosophically grounded, ecological framework for contemporary clinical practice.
Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change
Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change write by A. M. Pusca. This book was released on 2010-01-20. Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the spirit of Benjamin's Arcades Project, this book acts as a kaleidoscope of change in the 21st century, tracing its different reflections in the international contemporary while seeking to understand individual/collective reactions to change through a series of creative methodologies.
Rethinking Media Change
Rethinking Media Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Media Change write by David Thorburn. This book was released on 2004-09-17. Rethinking Media Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays in Rethinking Media Change center on a variety of media forms at moments of disruption and cultural transformation. The editors' introduction sketches an aesthetics of media transition—patterns of development and social dispersion that operate across eras, media forms, and cultures. The book includes case studies of such earlier media as the book, the phonograph, early cinema, and television. It also examines contemporary digital forms, exploring their promise and strangeness. A final section probes aspects of visual culture in such environments as the evolving museum, movie spectaculars, and "the virtual window." The contributors reject apocalyptic scenarios of media revolution, demonstrating instead that media transition is always a mix of tradition and innovation, an accretive process in which emerging and established systems interact, shift, and collude with one another.
The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change
The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change write by Jason Miller. This book was released on 2021-08-31. The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In both politics and art in recent decades, there has been a dramatic shift in emphasis on representation of identity. Liberal ideals of universality and individuality have given way to a concern with the visibility and recognition of underrepresented groups. Modernist and postmodernist celebrations of disruption and subversion have been challenged by the view that representation is integral to social change. Despite this convergence, neither political nor aesthetic theory has given much attention to the increasingly central role of art in debates and struggles over cultural identity in the public sphere. Connecting Hegelian aesthetics with contemporary cultural politics, Jason Miller argues that both the aesthetic and political value of art are found in the reflexive self-awareness that artistic representation enables. The significance of art in modern life is that it shows us both the particular element in humanity as well as the human element in particularity. Just as Hegel asks us to acknowledge how different historical and cultural contexts produce radically different experiences of art, identity-based art calls on its audiences to situate themselves in relation to perspectives and experiences potentially quite remote—or even inaccessible—from their own. Miller offers a timely response to questions such as: How does contemporary art’s politics of perception contest liberal notions of deliberative politics? How does the cultural identity of the artist relate to the representations of cultural identity in their work? How do we understand and evaluate identity-based art aesthetically? Discussing a wide range of works of art and popular culture—from Antigone to Do the Right Thing and The Wire—this book develops a new conceptual framework for understanding the representation of cultural identity that affirms art’s capacity to effect social change.
Pleasure and Change
Pleasure and Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pleasure and Change write by Sir Frank Kermode. This book was released on 2004-08-12. Pleasure and Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The question of the canon has been the subject of debate in academic circles for over fifteen years. Pleasure and Change contains two lectures on this important subject by the distinguished literary critic Sir Frank Kermode. In essays that were originally delivered as Tanner Lectures at Berkeley in November of 2001, Kermode reinterprets the question of canon formation in light of two related and central notions: pleasure and change. He asks how aesthetic pleasure informs what we find valuable, and how this perception changes over time. Kermode also explores the role of chance, observing the connections between canon formation and unintentional and sometimes even random circumstance. Geoffrey Hartmann (Yale University), John Guillory (New York University), and Carey Perloff (director of the American Conservatory Theatre) offer incisive comments on these essays, to which Kermode responds in a lively rejoinder. The volume begins with a helpful introduction by Robert Alter. The result is a stimulating and accessible discussion of a highly significant cultural debate.
