Mike to Frances
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From: "Frances Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Fear of Avant-gardism in Nazi Germany & USSR
The instrumental interpretant effects are thus a
reactive consequence such as relief that is determined by the moderating
vehicle. In monitoring the relation between the vehicular result and the
stimulating objects, the effects act to control the conformity between
them
so as to assure signers of some normality.
I am still struggling with your explanation of "interpretant" as the
"grammatical effect" of a term. Take the term "act" in the second sentence
above. Grammatically it is the verb, but what is its "grammatical effect"?
To give "monitoring" power to control conformity? If we set about to
interpret the term "act" above, what is the interpretant?
The determination of art is found in the empowered form
of aesthetic works, and not in such peripheral factors as their content or
meaning, or value or worth, or context or function or usage, or owner or
intent or effect. These factors are marginal to art, and at best are extra
aesthetic.
If "determination" is not used in the sense of overcoming adversity through
perseverance, but the power to determine whether an object in the set of
things that are "art", then it seems as though you are proposing an
institutional form of art with the twist that the institution is not the
artworld but the political power structure. If that is what you mean, and I
have not misunderstood, then perhaps we should be reading Foucault instead
of Ranciere :<)
Mike Mallory
