Michael: Read my .... words. I wrote that you "could say" not "did say".
Yes, you didn't say/write I "should have responded".
On another subject: I understand the nature of a representation to include
the quality (whatever might be intended by that term) as an aspect inherent
in the nature of the representation. Are you implying something like the
nature of a representation being op art as opposed to abstract realism?
Geoff C
From: Michael Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Unnoticed asthetic response
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:26:45 -0400
On Oct 11, 2008, at 11:17 PM, GEOFF CREALOCK wrote:
Michael: If my gall bladder secretes bile, I might well not notice it.
However, if I'm weakly affected by a potentially aesthetically moving
object/event I fail to understand how it could be known if I don't notice
it. sooner or later. How would you infer a response if I failed to
demonstrate one?
The antecedent condition: others often remark about having an "aesthetic
experience," by which the almost always mean a positive or approving
experience, that is, a positive response. In other words, the expression
AE is often used to designate someone's conclusion or judgment that the
aesthetic effect of X was good, as if the AE sprung full grown from their
foreheads. (Sometimes, the judgment is negative, but usually the writer
doesn't call that an AE at all, but just an example of a bat WOA.)
Aesthetic responses span a gamut from a negligible impact to a full- blown
epiphany, and they also range from favorable to condemnatory.
I disagree with a lot of the discussions in which the term "art" is used
to signify a level of quality of representation, rather than the nature of
the representation. And I disagree with the similar way AE is used in a
valorizing or honorific way to mean a positive reaction to a WOA, and in a
lesser way to scenes of natural splendor.
You could claim that I should have responded, that almost all other
people respond but I'm not clear how you could infer a response from me.
You could infer that water will freeze at 32 degrees F but that's not
subjectively mediated.
When did I say you "should" have responded?
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