Highbrow advice from George Washington

Do aesthetic criteria attend viewing or education? Are aesthetic experiences driven by simple or complex ideas? And what relationships among the primary and secondary qualities of objects can we describe in the wake of the "experience" of an aesthetic encounter? Finally, why do these questions matter?

Hannah Hoch (German, 1889-1978) “Sea Serpent”, 1937, Collage, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Stuttgart (photo from Belvedere exhibition)

Do aesthetic values have a place in the description of this image? Or should we instead emphasize aesthetic virtues?

Max Ernst – La mer et le soleil, 1926

Values are synthetic a priori dicta established by some arbitrary authority, while virtues rather reflect the subjective activity of enjoyment and appreciation. To each his own, though I should be remis were I not to point out that in ethics and moral philosophy the values vs. virtues distinction carries significant political implications.

Emanations 11 has been published!

The latest volume of International Authors’ literary anthology series, Emanations 11 presents stunning art, illustrations and writing from around the world. Over five-hundred pages long, this new book sustains International Authors’ commitment to innovation and experimentation: challenging visual pieces, intriguing artists’ statements, idiosyncratic memoirs, candid academic reflections, astute poetic expressions and cutting-edge speculative fiction. The forty-three contributors represent Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Nepal, India, Oman, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.

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A collection of new short stories inspired by J. G. Ballard: Wave IX is available for pre-order

From the Space Cowboy Books description:

A tribute to the fictitious magazine Wave IX from J.G. Ballard's 1961 short story "Studio 5, The Stars." In the fictitious version of the magazine Ballard predicts the rise of machine generated poetry; and in this real-world version of Wave IX the current debacle over machine generated works is satirized, battled against, and disregarded with human generated works, tributes to Ballard, works inspired by the story, and more. Wave IX features an multigenerational cast of writers and artists from all over the world.

Featuring stories, poetry, and art from: Eugen Bacon, F.J. Bergmann, Michael Butterworth, Jacques Garnier, Jean-Paul L. Garnier, Carter Kaplan, Jardine Libaire, Jonathan Nevair, Charles Platt, Aaron Sheppard, & Mark Soden Jr.

This anthology is published by Space Cowboy Books, an award-winning brick and mortar bookstore in Joshua Tree, California, an independent publishing house, producer of Simultaneous Times podcast, and event space.

Edited by Jean-Paul L. Garnier

Product Details

Price

$12.99  $12.08

Publisher

Space Cowboy Books

Publish Date

December 03, 2024

Pages

94

Dimensions

5.5 X 8.5 X 0.24 inches | 0.24 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9798989630820

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You Are What Your Eat (1968)

You Are What You Eat described

Ruth Law Oliver, aviatrix

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editing continues

Examining a proof copy.  Emanations 11 looks good.  More information soon.

Andromeda Nebula

 

Andromeda Nebula: A Space-Age Tale is a science fiction novel by the Soviet writer and paleontologist IvanYefremov, written in 1955–1956 and published in 1957.

Aesthetic enactment via adept experimentation and volitional composition modalities