Powers of Perception – Perceive Forces
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Author: Frank Fehrenbach, Laura Isengard, Gerd Micheluzzi, Cornelia Zumbusch (eds.)
Forces elude perception. Since antiq- uity, however, perception itself (ais- thesis) has been considered a force (dynamis). Thinking about perception means balancing the tensions be- tween truthfulness and susceptibility to deception, passive impression and active imagination, hidden cause and perceptible effect. Aesthetically en- coded perceptual attitudes such asstimulus, overwhelmedness, attention, or distraction also give rise to reflec- tions on aesthetic concepts of force. From a variety of disciplinary perspec- tives, the contributions to this volume ask how conceptualizations of sen- sory forces relate to the problematic perceptibility of forces, how artistic processes are adapted to perceptual models, and how this plays out in the
ISBN 9783111059877. De Gruyter. pb. 472 pages. 29 b/w, 26 colour ills. 24 x 15 cm.
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Forces elude perception. Since antiq- uity, however, perception itself (ais- thesis) has been considered a force (dynamis). Thinking about perception means balancing the tensions be- tween truthfulness and susceptibility to deception, passive impression and active imagination, hidden cause and perceptible effect. Aesthetically en- coded perceptual attitudes such asstimulus, overwhelmedness, attention, or distraction also give rise to reflec- tions on aesthetic concepts of force. From a variety of disciplinary perspec- tives, the contributions to this volume ask how conceptualizations of sen- sory forces relate to the problematic perceptibility of forces, how artistic processes are adapted to perceptual models, and how this plays out in the
ISBN 9783111059877. De Gruyter. pb. 472 pages. 29 b/w, 26 colour ills. 24 x 15 cm.
not yet published