Fickle Ears

a weblog by musician Stefan Kac

21 June 2024

chugging along

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My mind is a steam engine, not a sports car. It is reasonably impressive merely to behold it at rest, immobile and ornamental, but that...
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09 June 2024

Critical Commonplaces

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The Commonplace Raised to a Higher Power Arthur Danto interviewed by Hans Maes (excerpt) This so-called 'method of indiscer...
07 June 2024

KENDALL WALTON—Categories of Art

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Philosophy Looks at the Arts ed. Joseph Margolis (Third Edition, 1987) [53] Categories of Art KENDALL WALTON [orig. 1970]...
30 March 2024

animacy, intimacy, obstinacy

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Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (orig. 1886) Part 2: Materialism ... From the very early ti...
28 March 2024

Max van Duijn—The Lazy Mindreader

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Max van Duijn The lazy mindreader : a humanities perspective on mindreading and multiple-order intentionality (2016) [9] Intro...
27 March 2024

Edward Vessel—some papers from researchgate

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Edward A. Vessel, G. Gabrielle Starr and Nava Rubin "Art reaches within: aesthetic experience, the self and the default mode networ...
26 March 2024

Hillman and Ventura—Participants in Media Images

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James Hillman and Michael Ventura We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy—And the World's Getting Worse (1992) [124]...
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25 March 2024

Hillman—Life Lived Backwards/Letter Writing

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James Hillman and Michael Ventura We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy—And the World's Getting Worse (1992) [61]...
24 March 2024

McLuhan's New Sciences

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McLuhan's New Sciences (Cameron McEwen) McLuhan and Plato 1 – Phaedrus and Er from a letter of McLuhan's, age 23, on T...
23 March 2024

Frederick Crews—Out of My System

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Frederick Crews Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method (1975) [x] ...the effort to work out a consis...
22 March 2024

where we've been, where we're going, according to the botverse

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kacattac: summarize the theory of aesthetics presented at fickleears.blogspot.com during March 2024 ChatGPT: The theory of aesthetic...

FRANK SIBLEY—Aesthetic Concepts (ii)

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Philosophy Looks at the Arts ed. Joseph Margolis (Third Edition, 1987) [Sibley, "Aesthetic Concepts" (cont.)] [41] ...
21 March 2024

FRANK SIBLEY—Aesthetic Concepts (i)

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Philosophy Looks at the Arts ed. Joseph Margolis (Third Edition, 1987) [29] 2. Aesthetic Concepts FRANK SIBLEY [orig. 1...
20 March 2024

MONROE C. BEARDSLEY—The Aesthetic Point of View

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Philosophy Looks at the Arts ed. Joseph Margolis (Third Edition, 1987) [10] The Aesthetic Point of View MONROE C. BEARDSLE...
18 March 2024

MARGOLIS—Part One: Aesthetic Interests and Aesthetic Qualities

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Philosophy Looks at the Arts ed. Joseph Margolis (Third Edition, 1987) [1] Part One Aesthetic Interests and Aesthetic Qualit...
17 March 2024

Fickle Ears According To ChatGPT

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kacattac: Summarize the site fickleears.blogspot.com in 500 words or less ChatGPT: Fickleears.blogspot.com is a blog dedicated to mus...

Kavolis (ii)

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Vytautas Kavolis Artistic Expression—A Sociological Analysis (1968) [165] 12 🙛 🙙 ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM AND...
16 March 2024

Kavolis (i)

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Vytautas Kavolis Artistic Expression—A Sociological Analysis (1968) [4] The most obvious, although excessively general, expl...
15 March 2024

Ericsson and Pool—Peak

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Ericsson and Pool Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (2016) [12] We start off with a general idea of what we want to...
14 March 2024

Constant Lambert—Music Ho! (ii)

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Constant Lambert Music Ho! A Study of Music In Decline (1934) [201] (g) The Spirit of Jazz By jazz, of co...
13 March 2024

Constant Lambert—Music Ho! (i)

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Constant Lambert Music Ho! A Study of Music In Decline (1934) [21] During the war people had sterner things to think of than Sc...
12 March 2024

Rudi Supek—Freedom and Polydeterminism in Cultural Criticism

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Rudi Supek " Freedom and Polydeterminism in Cultural Criticism " (1965) in Socialist Humanism: An International Symposium e...
11 March 2024

The Sign of the Spectacle

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Mark Reybrouck "Musical Sense-Making and the Concept of Affordance: An Ecosemiotic and Experiential Approach" (2012) ...
10 March 2024

Sennett—The Craftsman (iv)

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Richard Sennett The Craftsman (2008) [246] Expertise The Sociable and the Antisocial Expert The danger to others posed ...
09 March 2024

Sennett—The Craftsman (iii)

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Richard Sennett The Craftsman (2008) [149] CHAPTER 5 The Hand Technique has a bad name; it can seem soulless. That'...
08 March 2024

Sennett—The Craftsman (ii)

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Richard Sennett The Craftsman (2008) [34] The evidence of demoralized Russian workers that my wife and I encountered in the Mo...
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07 March 2024

Sennett—The Craftsman (i)

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Richard Sennett The Craftsman (2008) Prologue: Man as His Own Maker Pandora's Casket Hannah Arendt and Robert Oppenhei...
04 March 2024

Bodies and Artifacts (interlude)—Sennett's Materialism

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Richard Sennett The Craftsman (2008) [7] The word materialism should raise a warning flag; it has become debased, stained in recent...
03 March 2024

Neil Postman—Amusing Ourselves To Death

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Neil Postman Amusing Ourselves To Death (1984) [9] In studying the Bible as a young man, I found intimations of the idea that...
02 March 2024

Amy Kiste Nyberg—Seal of Approval

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Amy Kiste Nyberg Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code (1998) [38] The legal case of most concern to those drafting s...
01 March 2024

Fallacies Intentional and Unintentional

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This is my Goodreads review of The War on Music by John Mauceri. It turned into more of a summation of everything I've been churning ...
14 October 2023

the bot that put these next to each other might actually be intelligent

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22 September 2023

Prisons of Misprision

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From today's reading, an auspicious juxtaposition, fresh as they come... Louis Menand The Free World: Art and Thought in the ...
25 August 2023

Framed

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from " The Frame Problem ," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: To many philosophers, the AI researchers' frame problem ...
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