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Art Criticism: A 'Poetic' Conversation
Get PDFOne of the more compelling claims in the history of aesthetics is Theodore Adorno’s claim in his AestheticTheory that, “The task of aesthetics is not to comprehend artworks as hermeneutical objects; in the
contemporary situation, it is their incomprehensibility that needs to be comprehended” (2015, p.118).
In a few words, this sentence addresses the question that motivates this dissertation. Artworks resist
understanding. Adorno sees this as a problem for aesthetics. In this dissertation I reflect on the
problem Adorno’s claim illuminates for art criticism. If art criticism is an inquiry of understanding,
and works of art resist comprehension, then what is it for art criticism to be appropriately and
productively responsive to a work of fine art? I contend that a discourse adequate to the challenge of
art criticism needs to be ‘poetic’. Not in the sense of a literary genre, but rather in the Platonic sense
of poiesis as the ‘bringing-forth’ of new forms of thought. Art criticism is not principally about
describing or evaluating. Instead we should see that art criticism is primarily about opening a
conversation that responds to an artwork. The result of my inquiry is a radically different picture of
art criticism to that offered by prevailing discourses in philosophical aesthetics.My goal in this dissertation is twofold. My first aim is to offer a novel analysis of art criticism. Iconsider the structure of thought involved in criticism, the form of interpretation proper to criticism,
the language of criticism, and the kinds of sociality that are thereby emergent. My second aim is to
bring German Classicism and Idealism, the work of Friedrich Schiller and Friedrich Hölderlin in
particular, into contact with contemporary philosophical thought
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Uncovering the Conditions for Understanding Another : An Examination of Translation, Interpretation, and Understanding in Gadamer’s Truth and Method
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Second Nature and Ethical Life: Habit, Culture, and Critique in Hegel's Science of Right
Get PDFThis dissertation investigates the status of reflection in Hegel's account of modern ethical life. I ask, on the one hand, why Hegel places so much significance on unreflective attitudes, and on the other, which forms of reflection remain compatible with what he calls the habit of the ethical. This question exposes crucial commitments underlying Hegel's project in the Philosophy of Right and interrogates the flexibility of his account and its openness to normative change. Yet my inquiry also has broader implications for the nature of social criticism. I argue that even reflection of the overtly critical variety emerges from and remains indebted to our habitual comportment and that this is why it must retain a valued place in ethical life
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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