Search results for "Esthetics"

Care as Key to Political Aesthetics

2022

The paper investigates the concept of care starting from Socrates and Plato to Italian Humanism, as the art of educating ourselves and others to live a good life. Taking into account some contemporary philosophical perspectives (Richard Shusterman; Yuriko Saito; Ellen Dissanayake) the author focuses on care in relation to the notion of sensitiveness, education and community. Then she claims that care has a key role within political aesthetics, understanding aesthetics as “theory of perception”, in line with the German philosopher Alexander Baumgarten.

The Rhythm of Time in Everyday Aesthetics

2020

Anglo-American research on aesthetics as well as that being carried out in continental Europe are increasingly interested in the topics pertaining to everyday life. However, the label “Everyday Aesthetics” apparently conveys a surprising oxymoron. After exploring the relation between Everyday and Philosophy, I shall analyse the principal theories on Everyday Aesthetics. Then, by means of anthropological interpretative tools, such as those offered by Henri Lefebvre, I will bring to the fore the concept of rhythm, as what can shed light on the fundamental value of daily life and its cyclical alternation of ordinary and extraordinary moments. According to Lefebvre, there’s no rhythm without re…

Sztuka gier wideo. Wybrane aspekty badań nad estetycznością i artyzmem gier komputerowych

2015

Autor podejmuje problematykę różnorodności stanowisk krytycznych w badaniach nad estetycznością i artyzmem gier wideo (stanowiska te są częścią pluralistycznego dyskursu nad sztuką gier komputerowych). W artykule zestawione zostają sądy i teorie reprezentujące różne sposoby traktowania kategorii estetyczności i artyzmu gier wideo, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem argumentów negujących i aprobujących istnienie sztuki gier komputerowych. Obok zarysu genezy artystycznych gier wideo podejmowana jest refleksja nad teorią badań sztuki gier komputerowych w odniesieniu do teorii sztuki Ryszarda W. Kluszczyńskiego oraz Josepha Margolisa.

ORNAMENTAL SIGN LANGUAGE IN THE FIRST ORDER TRACERY BELTS

2010

18 pages; We consider ornamental sign language of first order where principles of sieve displacement, of asymmetric building blocks as base of ornament symmetry, color exchangeability and side equivalence principles work. The generic aspects of sieve and genesis of ornamental pattern and ornament sign in it are discussed. The hemiolia principle for ornamental genesis is introduced. The discoverer of most of these principles were artist Modris Tenisons [4, 5, 6, 7 (refs. 23, 24), 8 (ref. 65)]. Here we apply systematical research using simplest mathematical arguments. We come to conclusions that mathematical argument in arising ornament is of much more significance than simply symmetries in i…

Review of "The Lucifer Effect. Understanding How Good People Turn Evil"

2013

Living Forms (of Art). Edoardo Kac's Transgenic Art between Ethics and Aesthetics

2013

Nel corso del Novecento si è assistito ad un intenso sviluppo della fisica e della biologia, grazie all’ausilio di nuovi strumenti tecnologici che hanno ampliato l’orizzonte della ricerca. Le sperimentazioni su organismi geneticamente modificati (come la famosa clonazione della pecora Dolly) hanno spesso generato scalpore, turbando le coscienze. Tali interventi sono tollerati in quei settori come la medicina in cui possono portare benefici all’esistenza dell’uomo, mentre suscitano inquietudine e perplessità in campo artistico dove l’intervento sulle forme viventi, non trovando giustificazione sul principio di utilità, sembra sfociare nel futile edonismo. Tenendo presente il dibattito avviat…

Libri, spazi, atmosfere tra immaginazione e realtà

2021

Il saggio intreccia finzione narrativa e biblioteche reali. Prendendo come spunto occasionale due romanzi, La bibliothèque des amants di André Miquel e Firmino di Sam Savage, analizza gli elementi architettonici e relazionali che in una biblioteca generano atmosfere respingenti o accoglienti, alla luce dell’estetica delle atmosfere del filosofo Gernot Böhme. The essay focuses on libraries, weaving fiction and reality. Taking two novels as an occasional cue, La bibliothèque des amants by André Miquel and Firmino by Sam Savage, the paper analyzes the architectural and relational elements that in a library generate repelling or welcoming atmospheres, in the light of the aesthetics of the atmos…

Anesthesia for Euthanasia Influences mRNA Expression in Healthy Mice and after Traumatic Brain Injury

2014

Tissue sampling for gene expression analysis is usually performed under general anesthesia. Anesthetics are known to modulate hemodynamics, receptor-mediated signaling cascades, and outcome parameters. The present study determined the influence of anesthetic paradigms typically used for euthanization and tissue sampling on cerebral mRNA expression in mice. Naïve mice and animals with acute traumatic brain injury induced by controlled cortical impact (CCI) were randomized to the following euthanasia protocols (n=10-11/group): no anesthesia (NA), 1 min of 4 vol% isoflurane in room air (ISO), 3 min of a combination of 5 mg/kg midazolam, 0.05 mg/kg fentanyl, and 0.5 mg/kg medetomidine intraperi…

Haptic Visuality and Film Narration. Mapping New Women’s Cinema in Spain

2020

There is a trend in female film production in the 21st century in the context of Spain towards a type of cinema that we could classify as haptic. It is a mode of representation concerned with multisensory expression in film images. In this article, we shall study this haptic visuality in the works of four filmmakers: Isabel Coixet, Paula Ortiz, Mar Coll and Carla Simón, whose films in this century exemplify the trend. The method chosen is textual analysis, which will provide us with the necessary tools to study matters concerning representation (framing), narration (nuclei and catalysis) and communication (spectatorial subject). These three analytical categories together will enable us to s…

Formidable Bracelet, Beautiful Lantern

2013

We live in an experience economy. The more saturated the global market becomes with products offering the same functions, services and quality, the more companies are wanting to appeal to the intangible needs and desires of consumers. To achieve this, designers and researchers are turning inwards to investigate the psychological factors affecting peoples' relationships and reactions towards design properties. For this reason, design semantics studies on user experience have been advancing all the time. Much emphasis has been placed on visual product experience, as well as the relationship between brand perception and user experience. These are important steps, which are referred to in this …