VOLUME 3(3) • 2015
INTRODUCTION: AESTHETIC KNOWLEDGE
ABSTRACT. The special issue of the journal Knowledge Cultures on the theme of Aesthetic Knowledge explores different ways in which human beings understand the world through aesthetic media. Some of these media are openly artistic in nature, such as music. Other aesthetic media are closer to design, ..
THE SPECIFICITY OF HUMAN AESTHETICS
ABSTRACT. Today, humankind is being reintroduced within nature. Humankind is no longer presented as supernatural to nature. There is no longer a clear divide between animal and human. What makes us human is neither culture, nor language nor labor, nor art, but the degree of complexity those products..
MUSIC, ANALOGY AND THE BEAUTY OF EVERYDAYNESS: On Music’s Sense: First Movement
ABSTRACT. The attribution to music of an extra-musical “sense” (that is, a sense not identical with musicological and physical elements and components of music) is highly problematic because its validity is either limited to the subjective conditions of reception of music or irrelevant regarding mus..
MUSIC, WANDERING AND THE LIMIT OF ANY METHOD: On Music’s Sense: Second Movement
ABSTRACT. The determination of an extra-musical “sense” of music is theoretically problematic: even if this “sense” is linked not to sentiments (as it generally is) but to the expectations of a specific Zeitgeist, in no case it is possible to negate the illegitimate universalization of an empirical ..
BUSKING THE DIGITAL HIGHWAY: THE AESTHETICS OF THE EXABYTE
ABSTRACT. Artistic sonification is an emerging creative practice at the intersection of mathematics and music, which sees big data transformed into sound. This paper considers the practice within the developmental trajectory of Sound Art – and the resulting tensions between aesthetic intent and data..
LOCOMOTION AND IMAGINATION
ABSTRACT. What is communication? We usually think of communication as words. But human beings also communicate aesthetically, through form and pattern. Among the most powerful forms of such communication are cities. Cities have distinctive and characteristic shapes and configurations (visual, tactil..
DEMOCRACY, UTILITARIANISM AND THE IDEAL OF LIBERAL EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA
ABSTRACT. This paper argues that liberal education was introduced into the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century as a corrective to what were perceived to be the deficiencies of colonial social and cultural life. In particular, liberal education had to determine its relationship to the democ..
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES: BUREAUCRACY, SCHOLASTICISM AND THE END OF BEAUTY
ABSTRACT. This article argues that development of the modern university in many ways mirrors that of the modern state. Over time it has become increasingly centralized and bureaucratic with power passing from its members to the central administration. This has led to a bureaucratization of the unive..
THE ART ACADEMY: A GATEWAY TO A BROADER CONCEPT OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
ABSTRACT. In an era where cultural institutions are under increasing scrutiny to provide evidence of their legitimacy, the contemporary art academy must speak with a common voice to define its purpose and relevance. Academics, cultural commentators, art bureaucrats and even Ministers of the Crown sp..
AESTHETIC IMAGINATION, ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION AND ORGANIZATION RESEARCH
ABSTRACT. The starting point of this article is a reflection of the connections between organization, participation and perspectivity within organization research. Participation is being addressed as educational methodization of multiperspectivity and the Iconic is being analyzed as a mode of transg..
THE AESTHETICS OF RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS: OUTLINE OF A RESEARCH AGENDA
ABSTRACT. Over the past few years private corporations have taken the responsibility to respect human rights as a salient dimension of their commitment to act responsibly. Their actions on that front, though, may occasionally come across as implausible, ill-intentioned or plainly inauthentic, even w..