Hasil untuk "Aesthetics"

J. Auger

Mateus F. Rocha Maia, Gisela Barcellos de Souza

O rio Paraopeba, afluente do São Francisco, desempenhou um papel fundamental nas expedições paulistas pelas futuras terras de Minas Gerais nas últimas décadas do século XVII. Inicialmente, a região do médio Paraopeba foi alvo da busca pelo ouro, mas desenvolveu um caráter agropecuário em parte do período colonial e imperial. No entanto, no início do século XX, a construção da Variante do Paraopeba pela Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil (EFCB) transformou a dinâmica do território, que antes funcionava fora do controle direto das administrações centrais. Com base na visão holística do território de Saverio Muratori (1967), este estudo reavalia os efeitos da ferrovia na reversão das estruturas de longa duração observadas em duas cachoeiras deste rio e em ruínas presentes na paisagem. São analisados a rota de exploração (1670-1690) e quatro períodos morfológicos distintos: a colonização inicial (1690–1730), a distribuição de sesmarias (1730–1810), a estagnação e transição para a mineração de ferro (1810–1910) e a era ferroviária (1910–1940). Nos anos que se seguiram, enquanto a ocupação do fundo de vale era incentivada, os empreendimentos mineradores se estabeleceram em cotas superiores. Essa dupla condição estrutura parte dos dilemas entre as ocupações e o avanço da mineração na contemporaneidade.

Artem Perchyk

This article proposes, for the first time, a philosophical reading of the film «In Bruges» through the lens of the «digital refusal» concept. In contrast to traditional interpretations focusing on the crime plot or existential motives, this research unveils a unique metaphysical dimension of the film, where the medieval city of Bruges emerges as a fully-fledged philosophical subject resisting the algorithmic logic of modernity. The innovative approach lies in treating the urban space not as a scenographic backdrop, but as an active actant influencing the temporal and ethical parameters of the narrative. The author's concept of «city-as-code» opens a fundamentally new perspective on understanding the urban environment as a proto-algorithmic structure operating according to a logic distinct from digital perceptions of time and space. This view radically differs from existing interpretations of urban semiotics in cinema and urban studies. The paper identifies a previously unarticulated problem of «ontological lag» – a specific state of the digital modern subject who finds themselves in an environment incompatible with the logic of algorithmic operations and network communication. This interpretation allows for a new understanding of the film's visual strategy as a deliberate media glitch that prevents a cathartic perception of the main characters' ethical drama. The proposed interpretation of the aesthetics of slowness and opacity in the film is fundamentally new, not as a stylistic device, but as a philosophical gesture that exposes the fundamental contradiction between digital temporality and the analog mode of presence. These reading challenges conventional notions of a unidirectional process of the digitalization of cultural experience. Of particular value is the proposed typology of «digital subjects» in a state of glitch, which opens a new approach to analyzing characters in contemporary cinema as carriers of various forms of temporal dissonance. For the first time in the context of film analysis and media philosophy, the problem of «ethics without an audience» – moral choices that occur outside the logic of digital publicity – is articulated. The research paves the way for the formation of a new interdisciplinary field combining media theory, the philosophy of ethics, and digital aesthetics to understand the transformations of subjectivity in the post-digital age.

Prabha Shankhar Dwivedi, Shashwat Pandeya

This paper explores the Śiva Mahāpurāṇa through an ecoaesthetical lens, revealing its relevance in countering the anthropocentric worldview that emerged from European Enlightenment ideals. While modernity often established a hierarchical divide between humans and nature, Hindu philosophy, as seen in the Śiva Mahāpurāṇa, emphasizes the interconnectedness of all beings and the inherent divinity within both human and non-human entities. The text advocates for an ethical, non-exploitative relationship with the environment, highlighting reverence, responsibility, and harmonious coexistence. By integrating theological reflections with ecological consciousness, the Śiva Mahāpurāṇa presents a compelling framework for fostering eco-centric ethics. This study underscores the text’s potential to inspire a deeper spiritual connection to nature, providing valuable insights for addressing contemporary ecological challenges. Ultimately, the Śiva Mahāpurāṇa transcends its theological origins to serve as a profound ecoaesthetical guide, urging us to rethink our relationship with the natural world and to embrace a more sustainable, compassionate approach to ecological stewardship.

Gordon, Robert M Gordon

This paper revisits the Simulation Theory (ST) as a framework for understanding human social cognition, challenging traditional ‘theory of mind’ or ‘folk psychology’ approaches. While these theory-based models posit that humans use an implicit body of knowledge to interpret and predict others’ behavior, ST emphasizes the use of mental simulation, leveraging the brain’s existing mechanisms for planning and prediction. By employing a predictive coding strategy, the brain minimizes cognitive load, interpreting others' actions through ‘inverse planning’ – a process that reuses one’s own action planning system to hypothesize the goals and intentions of others. The concept of agent-neutral coding is introduced, proposing that inputs for self and others are initially shared, reducing the need for explicit mental state attributions. This approach not only economizes cognitive resources but aligns with evolutionary perspectives on human social interaction in small, cohesive groups. In addition, the paper explores the role of perspective-taking and error correction in adapting shared mental representation. This reevaluation of ST underscores its efficiency and adaptability, offering a streamlined alternative to theory-based accounts of social cognition.

Alejandro Guerrero Hurtado

El artículo analiza una de las modalidades de urbanización periférica agenciadas por el capital financiero-inmobiliario en la sabana de Bogotá: el macroproyecto de interés social nacional Ciudad Verde. Tomando como base el estudio de la variación de precios de la vivienda nueva en cada etapa de desarrollo del macroproyecto, se busca demostrar la consolidación paulatina de un esquema de especulación inductiva para la formación de rentas urbanas de magnitud creciente entre 2010 y 2020. Para esto, en la primera parte se considera la formación histórica del capital financiero-inmobiliario en Colombia, aportando elementos para su delimitación conceptual. En la segunda parte, se aborda el proceso de consolidación urbanística de Ciudad Verde por etapas y se subraya el papel del Estado en la configuración de rentas urbanas. En la última parte, se presenta una síntesis teórica en dos momentos: la imbricación aditiva de la estructura de rentas en el macroproyecto, que explica el auge de los precios de la vivienda por encima de la inflación y, en segundo lugar, la distribución espacial de dicha estructura, que ofrece pistas sobre las próximas fases de expansión de la frontera urbana en el área de estudio.

Gao Yan, Li Xiaobing

The scope of aesthetics is often bound by the limits of sensory perception. In appreciating music and painting, information is typically processed through distinct perceptual channels. However, at the cerebral cortex and nervous system level, these modes of perception can interact and integrate, influenced by collected audiovisual information, thereby enriching the aesthetic experience and improving aesthetic efficiency. The domain of audio-visual interactive aesthetics holds significant potential in aesthetic education, yet current research in this area has made limited substantial advancements. This paper explores the functionality and impact of an audio-visual interactive aesthetic model, combining music and painting, within practical aesthetic education through a series of applied experiments. By incorporating Chinese traditional music and painting into children’s regular curriculum, we conduct a quantitative evaluating and analysis of the benefits of audio-visual multi-sensory aesthetics over single-channel perception in enhancing children’s emotional, aesthetic experiences, and cognitive abilities.

David Alvarogonzàlez

In this paper, I discuss certain criteria for classifying the substantive arts. In the first section, I explain the idea of substantive arts and then put forward sociological, historical, thematic and metaphysical criteria for classifying the arts that I deem to be external to the classified materials. I subsequently outline five classification criteria internal to works of art, themselves understood as techniques. Such criteria take into account the materials used in the works, the degree of destruction exercised therein, the degree of disconnection between the artist and the artwork, the sense organs involved in perceiving these works and the scope of the analogies between them and the other parts of reality. To end, I draw final corollaries in line with the discussion.

Sandra Ines Sánchez

Las epidemias, han impactado desde siempre de manera explosiva e imprevisible. Pero estos procesos de transformación no se producen aislados, ya que esferas enteras de la cultura también pueden realizar sus propias transformaciones o movimientos bajo la forma de cambios graduales, coexistiendo ambos a la vez, y creando nuevas sinergias. Se analizará el escenario actual de pandemia en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires en el que se reforzaron las políticas urbanas neoliberales sobre la base de la violación a todo tipo de derechos, fundamentalmente, de los sectores vulnerables. Con el ASPO, DISPO y la mediatización, la pobreza urbana (que significa inequidades: en los servicios de infraestructura y transporte público, en la calidad de los espacios verdes, en la accesibilidad y disfrute de la ciudad), se fue constituyendo en síntoma de procesos de transformación social y urbana atravesados por lo local y lo global.

Cathy Lisa Schneider

Foodification Democracy

Merel Visse, Finn Hansen, Carlo Leget

Arts-based research (ABR) provokes different ways of thinking about how art relates to knowledge in research. There are few authors, however, who explicate their view on aesthetics in the context of ABR and the type of knowledge that it generates. Accordingly, this article clarifies an aesthetic view in the context of a phenomenological approach to ABR. Ample arts-based researchers explore questions that touch upon the liminal nature and complexities of our lived experiences. Phenomenology is about that exactly: It leans into the unsayable dimensions of our reality and is interested in poetic and apophatic knowing. Apophatic knowing is a negating approach to understanding the unsayable, that is, a way of “nonknowing.” It can be practiced as a silent receptiveness. Consequently, we propose a Gadamerian approach to aesthetics that perceives ABR as an event . We argue for a poetics of research that is about being open and responsive to the movements of the artwork that ABR generates. Thus, by being receptive to movement, the enigma of phenomenality or life itself becomes the heart of ABR.

Amanda D. Ali, Laura A. Sanagorski Warner, Peyton Beattie et al.

Residents are inclined to over-irrigate and over-fertilize their lawns to uphold landscape appearances influenced by homeowner associations and neighborhood aesthetics (Nielson & Smith (2005). While these practices affect water quantity and quality, water quality is most impacted by fertilizer runoff (Nielson & Smith, 2005; Toor et al., 2017). Supporting water programs and engagement in fertilizer best management practices (BMPs) can have positive impacts on water quality. The Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) theory can be used to explain how a population accepts and adopts fertilizer best management practices (BMPs) over time (Rogers, 2003). Adoption can be understood through a population's perception of relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, observability, and trialability of fertilizer BMPs. The information presented here is an exploration of how extension can use video messages to influence residents' perception of these factors which influence adoption. The videos positively influence residents' perceptions of fertilizer BMPs, and recommendations are offered for applying this research to extension programs. 

Samuel Urbano del Valle, Eilien Tovío Martínez, Erich López Aparicio

Introduction: Ameloblastoma is a benign neoplasm that tends to be locally aggressive, with a high tendency to relapse. It is an odontogenic tumor of epithelial origin; 80% of cases occur at the mandibular level, both in branch and at an angle. It usually manifests during the third to fifth decade of life. The clinical characteristics are not determinants for the biological behavior or the prognosis of an ameloblastoma, even in many of the cases in which they are complemented with radiographs and/or histopathological samples. Objective: To report the surgical management of multicystic ameloblastoma in a radical way through a wide resection and placement of a reconstruction plate that functioned as a space maintainer, due to its unusual rapid growth. Case presentation: A clinical case of a male patient is described, who presents a tumor lesion in the right mandibular branch, with a clinical appearance of a multicystic, fast growing, follicular ameloblastoma, treated at Hospital Universitario del Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia. Data were provided on its clinical appearance, its rapid evolution, the histopathological findings and the therapeutic management performed. Conclusions: Due to its rapid growth, for this particular case, the most feasible option was to carry out the total resection of the lesion in order to avoid or reduce the possibility of relapse, followed by reconstruction with an osteosynthesis plate to restore the functionality of the temporomandibular joint and of the mandibular bone, without leaving aside the aesthetics of the patient.

Ilona Hongisto

Seeking to expand established notions of documentary cinema, this essay suggests that the indexical, the evidentiary, and the representational are not enough to account for the work of documentary cinema in the real. Drawing on Gerd Kroske’s KEHRAUS trilogy (1990, 1997, 2006) on the lives of street sweepers in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the essay proposes that documentary cinema be considered ‘an aesthetics of the frame’. The argument of the essay builds on the ways in which the three films relate the visible and the audible in the frame to what is left out. The outside of the frame becomes a defining element in how the documentaries capture and express the enfoldment of the Post-Wall transition period to the lives of the protagonists. Through analysing the technological, stylistic, and contextual qualities of the documentary frame in the three films, the essay draws attention to the frame’s embeddedness in the politics of recognition and in processes of actualisation. Instead of locating Kroske’s longitudinal project within the tradition of the indexical chronicle, the essay shows how the trilogy pushes reality to actualise.

I Wayan Yogik Adnyana Putra

Ground Zero Monument is a remembrance for Bali bombing attack that took place on October the 12th 2002. Its development however has invited various unanticipated informal activities such as those entail food vendors' effort to sell their products and the use of the surrounding sidewalks as sitting areas by tourists and visitors. These have in subsequence reduced the scale of public space surrounding the Monument and thus hindered the comfort of pedestrians who use the sidewalks. The main objective of this research is to examine behavioral patterns of visitors in using public space available around the Ground Zero Monument. This research applied qualitative descriptive method. It indeed concludes several findings. First, the use of public space surrounding the monument takes place at certain times only. Second, there are two types of behaviors takes place: innate (natural) and imitative behaviors. Reasons behind these behaviors include personal; situational, cultural, and space availability factors. Keywords: behavior, public space, innate, imitative, Ground Zero Monument

J. Wohlwill

J. Nasar

M. Nicolson

K. Olwig, Steven C. Bourassa