What would it be like if our brains had a ‘Shuffle’ feature; If we could experience the world as a de-contextualised succession of moments and impressions? Would we find serenity in the blissful waves of meaningless stimulation, or would we become consumed by the void of nothingness between sensory pulses?
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Tagged Existential, Experience, Interface, Meaninglessness, Meditation, Nothingness, Pulse, Shuffle, Subjectivity
Direct Quote from The Essay by Hubert L Drafus – “Heidegger on the connection between Nihilism, Art, Technology and Politics” published in the book Cambridge Companion to Heidegger.
“When everything that is material and social has become completely flat and drab, people retreat into their private experiences as the only remaining place to find significance. Heiddeger sees this move to private experience as characteristic of the modern age. Art, Religion, Sex, Education all become varieties of experience when all of our concerns have been reduced to the common denominator of experience we will have reached the age of Nihilism.”
Guignon. C (editor), 1993, the Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, Cambridge University Press.
Pg 292
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Tagged Experience, Heidegger, Nihilism, Technology
‘Naturally it is difficult to explain meditation experiences, since they contain at best rough analogies with other mental states, but a key feature is the immediacy of experience. The breakthrough comes when we no longer think about what we are doing in meditation but just enter into the experience itself.’
Teach yourself Philosophy of the Mind.
Mel Thompson.
Publisher: Teach Yourself Books; New edition edition
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Tagged Experience, immediacy, Meditation, Mental state
‘To be lost in music, enraptured by a work of art, absorbed in a creative activity – all these approach the same experience that is explored through meditation. It is an utter excentration of the self, turning it inside out, so that personal meaning is now experienced as much on the outside as on the inside.’
Teach yourself Philosophy of the Mind.
Mel Thompson
Publisher: Teach Yourself Books; New edition edition (26 Dec 2003)
‘The problem here is the conflict between ‘full and explicit’. for when we adopt a reflective attitude we can analyse the elements which are operative in a particular experience. However by analysing by taking the whole apart – we change the structure of the experience, it finds expression as a fragmented whole. The fullness, the qualitative unity – of the reciprocity is lost. The problem here is problem of philosophy itself. ‘
Art and Embodiment: From Aesthetics to Self-consciousness
Paul Crowther
Publisher: OUP Oxford; New edition edition (5 April 2001)
Posted in Art and Embodiment, Art Theory, Philosophy, Study Notes
Tagged Analysis, Art Theory, Asthetics, Experience, Fragmented, Ontology, Philosophy, Qualitative, Reciprocity, Reductionism, Unity, Wholeness
