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What Is Temporal Art? A Persistent Question Revisited, John Powell 2015 Adelaide University

What Is Temporal Art? A Persistent Question Revisited, John Powell

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This article examines the fourteen conditions constituting Levinson and Alperson’s taxonomy of conditions for temporal arts. It claims that some of the conditions and several of the lists of arts exemplifying them need revision. It recommends adding a new condition concerned with the effects of the passage of time on gardens, environmental sculpture, and outdoor installations. The article concludes that gardens may be a model for understanding and appreciating other arts sharing the same bi-(multi-) modality.


Performing Politics, Troy R.E. Paddock 2015 Southern Connecticut State University

Performing Politics, Troy R.E. Paddock

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Walter Benjamin’s observation that fascism turns politics into aesthetics is, by now, a well-worn idea. This article argues that Benjamin’s critique of politics can apply just as much to the modern democratic politics of the United States. Borrowing from Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, and Carl Schmitt, this article suggests that modern political discourse in the United States does not follow the classical liberal ideal of rational discourse in the marketplace of ideas within the public sphere. Instead, contemporary politics has become spectacle where images and slogans replace thought and debate in a 24/7 news cycle and political infotainment programs. The result …


Speed And Resolution In The Age Of Technological Reproducibility, SHAWN TAYLOR 2015 Virginia Commonwealth University

Speed And Resolution In The Age Of Technological Reproducibility, Shawn Taylor

Theses and Dissertations

The rate of acceleration of the biologic and synthetic world has for a while now, been in the process of exponentially speeding up, maxing out servers and landfills, merging with each other, destroying each other. The last prehistoric relics on Earth are absorbing the same oxygen, carbon dioxide and electronic waves in our biosphere as us. A degraded .jpeg enlarged to full screen on a Samsung 4K UHD HU8550 Series Smart TV - 85” Class (84.5” diag.). Within this composite ecology, the ancient limestone of the grand canyon competes with the iMax movie of itself, the production of Mac pros, …


Archiving The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, James E. May 2015 Louisiana State University

Archiving The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, James E. May

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Special Feature Paper, Ink, And Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein, 2015 Louisiana State University

Special Feature Paper, Ink, And Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Front Matter, 2015 Louisiana State University

Front Matter

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Birthing The Poet Elizabeth Singer Rowe And The Athenian Mercury, Heidi Laudien 2015 Louisiana State University

Birthing The Poet Elizabeth Singer Rowe And The Athenian Mercury, Heidi Laudien

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Fighting Fire With Fire Anti-Methodist Exaggeration In Samuel Foote And William Hogarth, Brett C. McInelly 2015 Louisiana State University

Fighting Fire With Fire Anti-Methodist Exaggeration In Samuel Foote And William Hogarth, Brett C. Mcinelly

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Satanic Devotions The Prayers Of Robert Lovelace In Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Juliette Paul 2015 Louisiana State University

Satanic Devotions The Prayers Of Robert Lovelace In Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Juliette Paul

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Sustaining The Eighteenth Century?, Samara Anne Cahill 2015 Louisiana State University

Sustaining The Eighteenth Century?, Samara Anne Cahill

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Fugitive Allusions In Boswell In Search Of A Wife, Or The Charming Mr. Boswell, Robert G. Walker 2015 Louisiana State University

Fugitive Allusions In Boswell In Search Of A Wife, Or The Charming Mr. Boswell, Robert G. Walker

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Akenside's Hymn To The Naiads And The Turn From The Ode, John Knapp 2015 Louisiana State University

Akenside's Hymn To The Naiads And The Turn From The Ode, John Knapp

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Unending Dunciad Pope's Weird Revenge, Cedric D. Reverand II 2015 Louisiana State University

The Unending Dunciad Pope's Weird Revenge, Cedric D. Reverand Ii

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Three Bibliopoles, J. T. Scanlan 2015 Louisiana State University

Three Bibliopoles, J. T. Scanlan

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Arabian Nights And The Oriental Tale Sustainable Enlightenment Texts, Malcolm Jack 2015 Louisiana State University

The Arabian Nights And The Oriental Tale Sustainable Enlightenment Texts, Malcolm Jack

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Religious Exchanges Solomon's Temple, Holy Land Travel, And A Georgics Of Sacred Space In Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century English Writing, Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz 2015 Louisiana State University

Religious Exchanges Solomon's Temple, Holy Land Travel, And A Georgics Of Sacred Space In Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century English Writing, Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"Iron War" As "Daily Care"Sustainability And The Dialectic Of Care In Dryden's Georgics, Erin Drew 2015 Louisiana State University

"Iron War" As "Daily Care"Sustainability And The Dialectic Of Care In Dryden's Georgics, Erin Drew

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"Go Not Far To Dine" Pedagogical Approaches To Sustainable Consumption In The Eighteenth-Century Studies Classroom And Beyond, Marlon Pareja, Sher Li Ong, Michelle Merrill, Samara Anne Cahill 2015 Louisiana State University

"Go Not Far To Dine" Pedagogical Approaches To Sustainable Consumption In The Eighteenth-Century Studies Classroom And Beyond, Marlon Pareja, Sher Li Ong, Michelle Merrill, Samara Anne Cahill

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


An Eighteenth-Century Plea For Sustainable Forestry Ostervald's Description Des Montagnes & Vallees Du Pays De Neuchatel (1764), Alexandra Cook 2015 Louisiana State University

An Eighteenth-Century Plea For Sustainable Forestry Ostervald's Description Des Montagnes & Vallees Du Pays De Neuchatel (1764), Alexandra Cook

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Index, 2015 Louisiana State University

Index

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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