> Pardon for stating the obvious in a guruesque pose but there is far more
> in
> common among these things than there is separately. Entire great cultures
> have risen and fallen over thousands of years and operated very
> effectively
> without considering them to be separate. To Newton or Goethe or
> Pythagoras
> or Hermes Tresmegistus, the idea of doing one and not the other would be
> absurd. Einstein imagined his answers before proving them mathematically-
> when he could. Things like the symposium in question are this unity
> trying
> to assert itself in the face of walls built by specializing jargonists who
> are mainly operating territorially for self-serving reasons or as the
> result
> of acting out unexamined assumptions of the greater culture.
>
None of which implies that the jargonists are wrong in their
conclusions. You do not attack a theses by attacking the motives of the
person advancing it, or her mere use of technical terms.
Einstein's entertaining mathematical propositions in his imagination
counts as his entertaining art in his imagination, for you?
Our idea of art did not exist when Pythagoras lived, nor (as it is
today) when Newton lived, either. Our idea of art is a product of
contemporary times. Projecting it onto the past yields a distorted
understanding of what the people you name were doing.
But if the aim of this joint effort is to come up with new ways to
produce visual imagery that is phenomenologically of the same kind as
generated by just normally perceiving the world with the senses in all
possible circumstances, go for it. But I still do not see what that has to
do with art qua art.
- George
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