Dmb: For any interested MOQer: Ant has published a new essay by yours truly at robertpirsig.org. It is in the "news" section and is titled "The Relation of Art and Morality in John Dewey's 'Art and Civilization'". Basically, I use Dewey and Heidegger to illuminate Pirsig's code of art. It is a more academic version of "Fun with Blasphemy". There are no references to Robert Redford, Orpheus and I do not quote Joseph Campbell but it covers some of the same ground. Its about 3000 words long. "Blasphemy" is not one of them, although I may have used the word "subversive" once or twice.
Dmb, Nice piece. I found the opening of how the view of art in the culture is viewed fell kinda flat with the conclusion of artists being the vanguards of Dynamic cultural change. That's nice and all but The problem being raised is how our culture Views these agents of dynamic change. When the artists tries to break the bonds of the jail The jail expands to accommodate, it changes the jail but not how it operates. I felt the most important part of the Whole Essay was how to not only assess the symptoms of this process But diagnose a remedy in how the jail views and responds to those dynamic aspects. This is what I found lacking in the work. I feel if you finish it off with the proposition of Pirsigs that the Remedy of the whole cycle lies in the reasons why art of any kind is So essential in culture, that it is open and relates to, our personal Experience. once we understand that all experience is directly Related and open to, artistic interpretation we would begin to see that We are all vanguards of the cultural dynamic, the separation would cease to exist and place care and quality back into the hands of the average citizen. Art then isn't something you go see or in the domain of those who are breaking from social norms. It is something that exists in every facet of experience, it belongs to each one of us. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
