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...
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erik schoster
ejschoster
Jan 21, 2004 1:07 am
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...
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Meridith Nimke
mermeridith555
Jan 21, 2004 5:49 pm
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...
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Eric Lanser
lansereric
Jan 21, 2004 5:52 pm
I'm glad to see some action on the board. I'll be posting a reply to both your posts shortly....
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Vigilius Haufniensis
concept_of_i...
Jan 22, 2004 3:45 am
I have a limited knowledge of objectivist theory, but I know that in objectivism there is an underlying belief in the potential of reason. How does...
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Eric Lanser
lansereric
Jan 22, 2004 4:46 am
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...
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Erik Schoster
ejschoster
Jan 22, 2004 11:31 pm
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...
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the13salmon
Jan 23, 2004 4:36 am
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...
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Eric Lanser
lansereric
Jan 24, 2004 12:04 am
... 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...
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the13salmon
Jan 28, 2004 2:15 am
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...
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Kendrick Boyd
hedgy10
Jan 29, 2004 4:56 am
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...
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the13salmon
Jan 31, 2004 2:31 am
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...
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the13salmon
Jan 31, 2004 2:31 am
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...
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Meridith Nimke
mermeridith555
Jan 31, 2004 4:41 am
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...
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the13salmon
Jan 31, 2004 7:47 am
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...
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the13salmon
Jan 31, 2004 7:47 am
... a miss-spelling. ... Even improvization is organized (albiet not as much as, say, Schoenberg's pieces). Random sounds (like people in the audience ...
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Erik Schoster
ejschoster
Jan 31, 2004 8:43 am
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...
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the13salmon
Jan 31, 2004 7:28 pm
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...
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Meridith Nimke
mermeridith555
Jan 31, 2004 8:11 pm
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...
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Meridith Nimke
mermeridith555
Jan 31, 2004 8:38 pm
the13salmon <scott.m.sandersfeld@...> wrote: While I agree with you Meridith, there might be a small contridiction, for you say that music is simply...
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Eric Lanser
lansereric
Jan 31, 2004 9:16 pm
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...
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Erik Schoster
ejschoster
Feb 1, 2004 1:47 am
... 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...
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Vigilius Haufniensis
concept_of_i...
Feb 1, 2004 8:07 pm
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...
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Vigilius Haufniensis
concept_of_i...
Feb 1, 2004 8:07 pm
I think so too. Art is perceptual: it lies in the mind, not in the object. VMANN: isnt the object itself also in the mind? vigilius haufniensis...
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Vigilius Haufniensis
concept_of_i...
Feb 1, 2004 8:07 pm
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...
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Vigilius Haufniensis
concept_of_i...
Feb 1, 2004 8:07 pm
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...
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Vigilius Haufniensis
concept_of_i...
Feb 1, 2004 8:07 pm
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...
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Vigilius Haufniensis
concept_of_i...
Feb 1, 2004 8:07 pm
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)...
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Vigilius Haufniensis
concept_of_i...
Feb 1, 2004 8:08 pm
... 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...
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Eric Lanser
lansereric
Feb 1, 2004 8:23 pm
... 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...
