The Aesthetics of Uncertainty - 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 Aesthetics of Uncertainty write by Janet Wolff. This book was released on 2008. The Aesthetics of Uncertainty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abstract:
Uncertainty in Games
Uncertainty in Games - 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 Uncertainty in Games write by Greg Costikyan. This book was released on 2013. Uncertainty in Games available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How uncertainty in games -- from Super Mario Bros. to Rock/Paper/Scissors -- engages players and shapes play experiences.
Human Futures
Human Futures - 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 Human Futures write by Andy Miah. This book was released on 2008. Human Futures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The long-term future of humanity has become of particular concern to various governance bodies and scholarly institutions. This book combines scholarly essays, images, interviews, design products, artistic artefacts, and creative writing. It investigates the expectations and actualities of human future as they emerge within the social sphere.
In Praise of Nonsense
In Praise of Nonsense - 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 In Praise of Nonsense write by Ted Hiebert. This book was released on 2012-06-28. In Praise of Nonsense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is truth in the postmodern age? The artistic generation of the twentieth century has grown up immersed in the delirious imagination of postmodern thought, which insists upon the ultimate uncertainty of meaning and that there is no self-evident truth. In Praise of Nonsense explores the possibilities and parameters of a postmodern imagination freed from the philosophical responsibilities of fiction, fact, and replication of lived experience. Mobilizing an array of scholars and contemporary artists, this study examines postmodern thinking through the lenses of identity and visual culture. Speculative, critical, and always creative in its approach, In Praise of Nonsense focuses on theories of disappearance, irony, and nonsense, where the pleasures of the imaginary give rise to artistic inspiration. When truth is unhinged, so is falsity, and all artistic thinking is called into question. Ted Hiebert takes on the ambitious project of holding postmodernism accountable for its own conclusions while also considering how those conclusions might still be given philosophical and artistic form.
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.
