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- Creator:
- Nunes, Michelle
- Description:
- This paper is an attempt to explain the conceptual underpinnings of my work while simultaneously serving as a work within itself. It seems only appropriate to have a paper as malleable in meaning as my work intends to be, otherwise the idea of fluid meaning is muted by my desire to sound certain, educated, and acceptable. My work functions as a manifestation of bodies encountering the world. Photographs, installations, and video examine the malleability of material and time within and around the body. Concrete and abstract forms overlap and boundaries between outside and in, whole and part, are blurred formally and conceptually. In The Death of The Author, Roland Barthes writes, "...text is a tissue of citations, resulting from the thousand sources of culture." In my work, material is a tissue of contexts, resulting from the thousand sources of time. Drawing from systems used by bodies to sense their surroundings, the works favor instability of meaning. By transitioning between physical and abstract forms of ignorance, insight, hubris, and curiosity, the work is active and participatory, much like the body ascertaining and transforming the empirical world physically, emotionally, and psychologically. This back-and-forth dialectic examines the source of identity and power using material, body, and mind.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Art
- Creator:
- Seifert, Josef
- Description:
- While Aristotle does not consider (as Libet) the physical universe causally closed, his understanding of causality is insufficient: 1. Aristotle does not grasp the indispensable role of persons for the “four causes” he distinguishes: Physical efficient causality can neither explain itself nor the entire chain of physical events, nor is it the primary form of causality, nor sufficient to explain personal agency. Also formal and final causality are inexplicable without persons. Without the essential relation to persons efficient, formal, and final causes are impossible and unintelligible. Moreover, Aristotle attributes wrongly fundamental traits (to be the source of individual being and the ultimate subject of form and change) to material causality as such, which is incorrect, because these traits belong more perfectly to spiritual persons. 2. There are entirely new causes of human acts that cannot be subsumed under the four causes encountered in intentionality, cognitive relations to objects, human motivation and behavior etc., which, when reduced to efficient causes (let alone to mere brain-causes) are entirely misconstrued. If such a reductionist causal theory were true, its truth would destroy the cognitive value of the theory itself which advances such a causal reductionism. Therefore a personalist rethinking of causality is necessary.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona