My tutor comments positively on my effort to read as wide as possible, I appreciate her ‘seeing’ my efforts. It surely is very much part of my nature to seek to understand, but I still find it rather difficult to take the complex reading to a place of understanding – the process is many a […]
Demonstration of subject based knowledge and understanding At this point of the studies it became important for me to understand the ontology of philosophers I am reading – how they view reality. I am starting to read more on Deleuze and see him as having a realist ontology – there is no difference between the […]
Read Plato’s account of the Allegory of the Cave and say whether and why you think it is valid today. (1500 words) I will be looking at this discussion from a point of view that an Allegory is Symbolism and symbolic or metaphorical is always a dimension higher than where we find ourselves at, as an […]
Potts states that words and pictures/images are signs, activated by “cultural convention” (2003,20). and a work of art operates like a sign. The viewer ‘who assign significance to a world of visual art is like the user of a language who envisages a word or a text as having meaning because she or he has […]
Ongoing effort to understand work for assignment 3 Contemplating the following: The image, the copy, and the thing depicted, the original. A common definition of the simulacrum is a copy of a copy whose relation to the model has become so attenuated that it can no longer properly be said to be a copy. […]
My tutor suggested the following reading material for this part of the course: Susan Sontag On Photography for a better understanding of the idea of the original versus the copy – downloaded on my Kindle as well as had it as an audio book- much to my friends at gym’s shock: that I listened […]
“The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture ‘This is a pipe’, I’d have been lying!” — René Magritte REPRESENTATION The study material now conclude that by having established the fundamental […]
I used as feature image a picture taken as a still from the movie, Dead Poets Society – During this chapter of the studies, reading Plato and trying to get to grips with the theory I came upon the discovery that the USA was born with the idealism embedded in the Platonic optimism. Susan Sontag […]
‘The nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in the sciences in which the relatively small-scale 18th century disciplines of natural history (which recorded and classified the world) and natural philosophy (which explained and investigated natural phenomena) gave way to large, influential and powerful sciences – the specialised, professionalised and distinct disciplines of physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology […]
With regards to the assignment I think I had some positive feedback, and hopefully with regards to the length of the assignment, I did ok! My tutor added some extra pointers which I really appreciate in terms of further understanding and connecting the process to the learning. I would like to add this to my […]