Ed Locke will be speaking on "Reason and Emotion: Ayn Rand's Solution to a 2000-Year-Old-Problem" next Thursday, October 16th, at 8pm in Riverview Lounge in...
Hey Lanser & list members, I've been having fun working over some ideas concerning aesthetics in a Buddhism paper & I thought I'd raise an interesting issue or...
Dear Schoster (I didn't know you were subscribed to this list!), First things first. I believe you're looking for an objective perspective, not an objectivIST...
First off, a point about posting methodology. My responses will be brief (as I suggest others' be) as it is simply not possibly to cover any issue of central...
Heya, ... on this list are after right? Bad Cop: Objectivity is irrelevent. Strength is irrelevent. Good Cop: Seems like a lost battle to me. Objectivity is...
I would like to discuss for a bit a topic which has been on the HBL mailings for a bit now, and that is the idea of property ownership in space. Harry...
... the ... The argument is that by establishing transportation to Mars, he is bringing tremendous value to the whole planet. What would you pay for an acre...
Today I was at the library and I asked a lady at the reference desk about getting "The Intellectual Activist" (an Objectivist periodical) for the periodical...
I sent in a request via the Lawrence Library suggestion form online and received an email today from Susan Richards. She repeated the same thing that I think...
Tonight a bunch of us music students had a disscusion at dinner which follows, roughly. It began with talking about John Cage, and his various compositions. I...
You can listen to some of the pieces mentioned in my previous post at http://www.lawrence.edu/oncampus/library/ereserves/muhi/202/recording s.html if you are...
Scott, Your last link didn't work. Check the address; maybe there was a miss-spelling. Music is organized sound. That's it. No organization, no music. Even...
While I agree with you Meridith, there might be a small contridiction, for you say that music is simply organized sound. But John Cage's "Sixty-two Mesostics...
... a miss-spelling. ... Even improvization is organized (albiet not as much as, say, Schoenberg's pieces). Random sounds (like people in the audience ...
Hi! I'm wasted, however.... ... Try http://www.ubu.com/sound/cage.html Music may very well be organized sound, but it is also sound with no organization. You...
Coughing is not music. At best, it could be a rhythmic element of some shitty composition, but random noises can not be labeled as music. If they could, the...
Hi Erik, I'm wasted, however.... Don't worry about that. (I was a little tipsy when I replied to Scott's message)Thanks for replying and for the links to other...
the13salmon <scott.m.sandersfeld@...> wrote: While I agree with you Meridith, there might be a small contridiction, for you say that music is simply...
This is another issue of epistemology. The discussion comes down to what is the meaning of the concept art (and then its definition). ... Are not particular...
... I think so too. Art is perceptual: it lies in the mind, not in the object. We all have idea-constructs and cognitive associations which pop up when we...
While I agree with you Meridith, there might be a small contridiction, for you say that music is simply organized sound. But John Cage's "Sixty-two Mesostics...
The question, for instance, came up of the famous "Well, say an artist draws a line on a canvas and calls that art. How are you going to tell him it isn't?" I...
Coughing is not music. At best, it could be a rhythmic element of some shitty composition, but random noises can not be labeled as music. If they could, the...
Out of curiosity, would you not consider techno/electronica to be music? What about exersises used to learn to play an instrument? I guess I don't think that...
Art is not intrinsic in things, apart from man's mind. It isn't that, in the statue of David, there's some artness (in another dimension or in the object)...
... Even improvization is organized (albiet not as much as, say, Schoenberg's pieces). Random sounds (like people in the audience coughing, a piano refusing to...
... This is not arguing for the nominalist view. It is merely arguing against the intrincists (the nominalists also do this). The answer to the nominalists...