#susanne langer

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Man, unlike all other animals, uses "signs" not only to indicate things, but also to represent them. To a clever dog, the name of a person is a signal that the person is present; you say the name, he pricks up his ears and looks for its object. If you say "dinner," he becomes restive, expecting food. You cannot make any communication to him that is not taken as a signal of something immediately forthcoming. His mind is a simple and direct transmitter of messages from the world to his motor centers.

With man it is different. We use certain "signs" among ourselves that do not point to anything in our actual surroundings. Most of our words are not signs in the sense of signals. They are used to talk about things, not to direct our eyes and ears and noses toward them. Instead of announcers of things, they are reminders. They have been called "substitute signs." for in our present experience they take the place of things that we have perceived in the past, or even things that we can merely imagine by combining memories, things that might be in past or future experience. Of course such "signs" do not usually serve as vicarious stimuli to actions that would be appropriate to their meanings; where the objects are quite normally not present, that would result in a complete chaos of behavior. They serve, rather, to let us develop a characteristic attitude toward objects in absentia, which is called "thinking of" or "referring to" what is not here. "Signs" used in this capacity are not symptoms of things, but symbols.

Susanne Langer, Philosophy in a New Key

#susanne langer #semiotics #presence and absence

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#susanne langer #historyandphilosophy #shorts #inna besedina

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"If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions."

Susanne Langer, philosopher (20 December 1895-1985)

#athoughtfortoday #Susanne Langer #knowledge #questions #philosophy

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Susanne Langer: New knowledge

“If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions.” —Susanne Langer.

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#Susanne Langer

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#quote #susanne k langer #jym shipman #words of kindness

[radical-revolution]

"The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition." - Susanne Katherina Langer

Photo: Kristina Kugler

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DAY 2/100

Sat. 17 Sept.

Productivity:

- Readings: Algorithmic Governmentality and the Death of Politics. An interview with Antoinette Rouvroy (2020) Algorithmic Governmentality (social world based on algorithmic processing of data sets, not politics, social norms, or law) is about having control over uncertainty and reducing possible into probable, eliminating all risk. It is a claim that human rationale is able to grasp everything that is not human. Big data removes the idea of average and caters to the experiences of the individual. Hyper-individualism leads to hyper-surveillance. In the case of insurance; if a person's data indicates they are at risk of premature death (through tracking habits), their insurance may be canceled. Antoinette argues that there needs to be a reset in cultural values; the need to optimise everything all the time is leading to a bleak future, where people do not live in the present & concrete world. - Meeting: Discussion on how people perceive the world, the meaning of symbols, and how one can reshape the relationship with power structures by creating a relationship with the individuals behind it. Discussion of Susanne Langers symbol texts, and Jill Magid's artwork. - Analysed: Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism, Metahumanism, and New Materialisms: Differences and Relations. (Francesca Ferrando, 2014.)

Differences between Post-Humanism & Transhumanism

Posthumanism is not hierarchical about differences

Link between Post-Humanism & Transhumanism: Technogenesis.

The inseparable bond of Humanity & Technology through the lenses of anthropology, ontology, and paleontology.

Posthumanism: Challenging traditional notions of humanity via the lenses of technological shifts, overcoming human primacy. Speciesism. Examines the Anthropocene.

Transhumanism: Transcending human limitations via technological & biological evolution. Understanding of humanity by looking at the future. Risk of techno-reductionism. "Humanity Plus" movement. Human-centric approach.

Antihumanism: Critiques the human-centric view of the world. Alternative ways of understanding humanity. Death of Man by Foucault. Urges to consider that humans also exist in the same ecosystem as other beings.

Metahumanism: Spirituality, mystical, holistic transformation of humanity.

New Materialism: Brings back the importance of materiality. Matter is seen as the process of materialization. Matter has agency & a role in shaping the world.

Self-care:

Ate lunch

Took a nap (or two)

Drank water

Other:

Played Overwatch

Started organising a grill party to get to know my classmates!

Organising a watch party for Barbie with friends

Weekly schedule done

#studyspo #study motivation #self care #100 days of productivity #study blog #studyblr #transhumanism #posthumanism #big data #this was a fun day! i love reading about transhumanism #it was interesting to see about the different movements that exist #that text was nice but had some confusing parts? #honestly doing this challenge makes me feel better about myself lol #i now see how much work i actually do.

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[keynewssuriname]

Historisch letterkundige inspireert Suriname met succesverhaal Caatje van Heijne

Elisabeth Samson. Het levensverhaal van deze moedige vrouw uit de koloniale periode heeft ongetwijfeld indruk gemaakt op iedereen die de historische roman ‘De vrije negerin Elisabeth’ van Cynthia Mc Leod heeft gelezen. De Surinaamse geschiedenis kent echter ook vele andere succesverhalen van inspirerende vrouwen. Op 17 februari heeft historisch letterkundige en publiciste Hilde Neus in een overvolle zaal van de Readytex Art Gallery de aanwezigen een kijkje gegeven in het leven van Caatje van Heijne uit de achttiende eeuw. “De geschiedenis van Caatje is een voorbeeld van hoe verregaand de gevolgen van de slavernij voor een vrouw konden zijn”, aldus Neus, die in 2003 een boek uitbracht over plantagehoudster Susanne du Plessis. Neus, die jarenlang heeft gewerkt aan de Anton de Kom Universiteit van Suriname en ook medeorganisator is geweest van de conferentie Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour in juni 2018, is momenteel bezig met haar promotieonderzoek naar Surinaamse vrouwen in de achttiende eeuw. Ze heeft archieven uitgebreid onderzocht en bestudeerd, waaruit blijkt dat vrouwen in die tijd vaak een veel sterkere positie innamen dan tot nu toe bekend is. Het levensverhaal van Caatje, die zich van slavin opwerkte tot een succesvolle positie in de koloniale maatschappij, is daar een voorbeeld van. Caatje kreeg drie kinderen van Jacob Frederik Heijne, de zoon van haar slavenmeester, en hij kocht hen allemaal vrij. Haar positie in de samenleving maakte het voor haar kinderen mogelijk om gerespecteerde leden van de gemeenschap te worden. Na het overlijden van Jacob erfden Caatje en hun drie kinderen de koffieplantage Dwingelo. Met een erfenis doordrenkt van ondernemingszin, navigeerde Caatje meesterlijk door de zakenwereld, en haar vaardigheden brachten niet alleen welvaart, maar ook weelde voor haarzelf en haar nakomelingen. Deze erfenis manifesteerde zich in de verwerving van twee statige woningen, één in de Maagdenstraat en de andere in de Jodenbreestraat, gelegen nabij de huidige locatie van de Readytex Art Gallery. Neus is in een presentatie die langer dan 70 minuten duurde diepgaand ingegaan op de fascinerende reis van Caatje en hoe haar manumissie de koers van haar leven en dat van haar nakomelingen onherroepelijk heeft gevormd. Read the full article

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Critical frameworks A Assignment 2

Critical frameworks A Assignment 2 Outline of my approach to the assignment

I identified three critical frameworks pretty clearly across the works I put in my dossier.

1.Expressionism how it was written about by Susanne Langer, that art works communicate something that cannot be put into words. She wrote that some things are “matters which require to be conceived through some symbolic schema rather than discursive language.” She wrote that artworks themselves are symbols “ a way of making something invisible visible”

2.Minimalism / Post Minimalism. Seeing the artwork for what it is,not as a metaphor for something . You, see the process of how a piece is made. Artists use every day materials like cardboard boxes bricks and steel and other soft materials too. You see the workings of the artists hand perhaps their anxiety the effort in working things out.

3.Feminism.(embodiment) Simone de Beauvoir wrote that a body is not a thing ,it is a situation. Our body is not only a physical thing in the world but at the same time it is how we see the world.

What themes unite my posts

I think the main theme is that that the artworks all give a shape to something that can’t be described in language. In the interview with Agnes Martin she says you cannot let ideas about yourself or the world get in the way of the work of painting. The outsider artist ,Laure Pigeon. All of the pieces weren't so extreme but all of them expressed something elusive, personal and interesting that I cant put into words.

Yvonne Rainer and Simone Forti who are both dance artists and Augusta Richardson’s work all have the theme of swapping the idea of spectacle and perfection.for an idea that each part is equally important. Forti writes in a very natural way working out her thoughts, being unsure and the struggle in doing her art. At the same time she accepts that its alright to be not sure .

Edouardo Chillida and Robert Ryman as well as Simone Slee and Augusta Richardson’s work all use everyday materials that emphasise the making of the works and something that the may fall or crumble.

What communities of practice are represented? Performance artists Sculptors Painters

What guided your selection of precedents?

I chose artworks first of all that interested me in some way. Works that showed the effort or workings in the making of them Works that seemed to threaten to fall into disorder but managed to hold on or are ordered in

their disorder e.g ‘The Way Things Go ‘- A Chain Reaction “ Peter Fischi and David Weiss performance piece

Works that seemed to focus on the work itself rather than the spectacle (e.g. how it might be received by an audience )

Sculptures of towers of various size and power. How does the dossier enable you to see your own work in a critical way?

It was useful to look closely at the pieces I chose for the dossier. I could see repeating themes in the works that are also in my work. It has helped me to start to look at what is important to me in my work and how what I am doing in my studio is happening in the context of the contemporary art world.

[innabesedina]

"HUMAN LIFE... IT IS AN INTRICATE FABRIC OF REASON AND RITE, OF KNOWLEDGE AND RELIGION, PROSE AND POETRY, FACT AND DREAM…" SUSANNE KATHERINA LANGER

LANGER BELIEVED THAT SYMBOLISM IS THE CENTRAL CONCERN OF PHILOSOPHY BECAUSE IT UNDERLIES ALL HUMAN KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING. AS WITH ERNST CASSIRER, LANGER BELIEVED THAT WHAT DISTINGUISHES HUMANS FROM ANIMALS IS THE CAPACITY FOR USING SYMBOLS. 

SUSANNE KATHERINA LANGER WAS AN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER, WRITER, AND EDUCATOR AND WAS WELL KNOWN FOR HER THEORIES ON THE INFLUENCES OF ART ON THE MIND. SHE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST WOMEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY TO ACHIEVE AN ACADEMIC CAREER IN PHILOSOPHY AND THE FIRST WOMAN TO BE POPULARLY AND PROFESSIONALLY RECOGNIZED AS AN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER.

#susanne langer #philosophy #historyandphilosophy #education #inna besedina

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"If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions."

Susanne Langer, philosopher (20th December 1895-1985)

#athoughtfortoday #Susanne Langer #knowledge #questions #learning

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Susanne Langer: New questions, new knowledge

“If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions.” —Susanne Langer.

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from the Expressionism + Susanne Langer discussion board, Sept 8 - subjective interpretation of universal experience

I was reminded of this ambient album by UK artist Dylan Henner by this quote from Dom in the lecture and discussion board:

''Do the various words we have for moods or emotion capture the subtlety of your subjective experience?"

This album tells a story of a life from birth to death - universal but irrefutably subjective. Because of this duality, the album both documents and fictionalises its story. It is imbued with the Henner's chosen emotions around the specific and ubiquitous experiences of growing up, finding place, creating family, and growing old.

#Bandcamp

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Het Energiepark Leiden en Beelden in Leiden zijn een samenwerking aangegaan. Om de maakcultuur in de sleutelstad te bevorderen adopteert het park een jaar lang een beeld uit de expositie van deze zomer. De bewoners van Leiden en specifiek bij en rondom het park kunnen zelf bepalen welk werk geplaatst wordt door te stemmen via de website www.energieparkleiden.nl. Playground Thema van de expositie van dit jaar is 'Playground'. De tentoonstelling is daarmee een plek waar bezoekers spelenderwijs de wereld ontdekken. Net als een speeltuin, die een plek is van spelen, ontdekken en ontmoeten. De zes jonge kunstenaars Bas Oussoren, Susanne Khalil Yusef, Nazif Lopulissa, Eugenie Boon, Vera Gulikers en Stijn ter Braak onderzoeken met speelse verwondering in hun werk de werkelijkheid. Ze stellen eigen spelregels en vervormen daarmee onze belevingswereld. "Het Energiepark voelt zich verbonden met het thema", benadrukt stadsmaker Barbara Wassenaar. "Cultuur en ontmoeting spelen nu al een grote rol in het Energiepark en het adopteren van één van de beelden is een mooie kans om deze rol te versterken. Ook willen we waar mogelijk delen van de openbare ruimte spelenderwijs met de stad gaan ontwikkelen." Ter illustratie © Pixabay Cultuur in het Energiepark "Welk beeld het wordt bepalen we niet zelf", benadrukt ze. "Dat vragen we namelijk aan de inwoners van Leiden. Via de website kunnen Leidenaren en betrokkenen bij het Energiepark hun stem uitbrengen. Stemmen kan tot 5 augustus. De beelden staan deze zomer op de Hooglandse Kerkgracht. Op 6 augustus maken we bekend welk beeld een plek in het park krijgt en op 23 september 2023 wordt het winnende beeld onthuld in het park." "Beelden in Leiden is zeer verheugd met deze nieuwe samenwerking met Energiepark. Het is goed om te zien hoe kunst een plek in de ontwikkeling van het park krijgt en hoe het ook een rol krijgt in de verbinding tussen mensen en plek.' Zegt Henriette van der Linden, bestuursvoorzitter Beelden in Leiden. "Dankzij Energiepark is dit het tweede werk dat ook nog na de tentoonstelling Playground in Leiden te zien zal zijn. Goed voor de kunstenaars en hun zichtbaarheid, goed voor de kunsten en voor Leiden en de Leidenaren die nu langer ervan kunnen genieten."

[hallohartje]

"Most poets of high formal appetite often do perceive, in advance of the concrete materials of the poem, some shape or heft or tone or set of means -- what Susanne Langer calls a 'formal apprehension'. It influences countless choices in the drafting process: this word instead of that one, this lineation or syntax, this length and order of stanzas. [...] The more alert and experienced the poet, the more numerous those options have been, whether in the heat of composition or in later revision, whether self-conscious or intuitive."

- Ellen Bryant Voigt, The Art of Syntax

#Ellen Bryant Voigt #The Art of Syntax #poetic craft #syntax #meter #lineation