Jag läser myckert hellre tidskrifter på skärm (24 tum) än på papper. Zinios läsare är riktigt bra och upplevelsen blir fantastisk. Och kolla priset på vissa tidskrifter som American Photo!!! Eller Science som går för 20% av papperstidningen.
On 06.02.09, In Other, by Peter Giger
Jag läser myckert hellre tidskrifter på skärm (24 tum) än på papper. Zinios läsare är riktigt bra och upplevelsen blir fantastisk. Och kolla priset på vissa tidskrifter som American Photo!!! Eller Science som går för 20% av papperstidningen.
On 12.06.08, In Other, by Peter Giger
Just started to read John Dewey’s Art as Experience. This is a book I should have read decades ago, but better late than never. It does not take many pages to understand that our respective view of art are close relatives. Museums, art exhibitions and other similar institutions have always put me in a state [...]
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Just started to read John Dewey’s Art as Experience. This is a book I should have read decades ago, but better late than never. It does not take many pages to understand that our respective view of art are close relatives. Museums, art exhibitions and other similar institutions have always put me in a state of bewilderment. Art is not about spectators meeting objects with a certain kind of techno-social status. Art is the action or process of creating and/or experiencing. Let’s take Da Vinci painting Mona Lisa as an example. What is Mona Lisa? It is a material design, made to reflect the person it mimics. The art-aspect belongs to the process when Leonardo created the image and when people like you and I view the design. For me, It’s more art to observe someone experiencing Mona Lisa, than viewing it myself as a spectator. When I view Mona Lisa and it intertwines with my own experience, it becomes art. Art is not something to be measured on the scale of good or bad. Art is experience.
We are living in a time period with great change. This might be somewhat cryptic, but I would say that philosophy as Philosophy, art as Art and even science as Science doesn’t exist anymore. The search for objective truth, obejctive beauty and objective knowlege is more or less done in vain and probably have more to do with the socio-economic sphere in out lives. The processes of philosophy, art and science is more important than ever, but they are not located beyond time and space.
On 12.02.08, In Other, by Peter Giger
Yesterday, I renamed the category “research” to technoscience. Just now I wrote the opening paragraph for an essay about technoscience in the location of web 2.0. It hit me that this short text also works as an explanation for why I renamed the category research to technoscience. Quoting myself:
Technoscience means a sense that science and [...]
Yesterday, I renamed the category “research” to technoscience. Just now I wrote the opening paragraph for an essay about technoscience in the location of web 2.0. It hit me that this short text also works as an explanation for why I renamed the category research to technoscience. Quoting myself:
Technoscience means a sense that science and technology cannot be separated. That understanding should be quite common among persons having a stake in the concept. I am more uncertain about the location of the concept. I have placed it in various locations in relationship to related words as science and reserach. Recently, the ontology of technoscience has becoming more and more clear to me. I think persons with a stake in the concept should go all the way and kick out ’science’ from the academic throne – ie from our viewpoint. Technoscience is not a relational concept balancing between words as science and research. Some of the things I do is science, but science is only a part of my academic work. I am doing techosciene in the same sense a quantum physician is doing science. Technosicence is not a relative of science, it is a reconstruction of science.
On 11.04.08, In Other, by Peter Giger
There is no way out of the determining factors of tradition. We have to be aware of them, but it is as important to understand that there is no way of freeing ourselves completely from tradition. There is a large body of work written on the question of free will vs determinism, my own view [...]
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There is no way out of the determining factors of tradition. We have to be aware of them, but it is as important to understand that there is no way of freeing ourselves completely from tradition. There is a large body of work written on the question of free will vs determinism, my own view being fairly commonsensical. The existentialist view of free will is somewhat naive and a completely determined world is not only disgusting, but irrational according to a secular view of life. The commonsensical view is that every child is thrown into a tradition, but have a certain degree of free will within that tradition. This article is about the relation between science, philosophy and technoscience.
This draft is less than 4 pages and will be a part of my dissertation. You can see it in the upcoming structure on the research page. This is the first piece in the structure.