ART & ORGANISM
These notes document the way in which past seminars of A&O have unfolded / blossomed and indicate intended directions for 2019. Notes from 2018 provide only a rough guide as to what to expect in 2019 because they reflect the specific interests of the participants in previous years. The disciplinary core of the course remains the same: the spiral helix of “DEEP ETHOLOGY” (the integrative study of behavior) and “CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF ART and AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE”
- A&O CLASS NOTES—January 23 ((EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY, congenital and acquired BIASES: how WEIRD we are, Meaning and the Body)
- A&O CLASS NOTES—January 30 (REVIEW of Jan 23; INDIVIDUATION & SOCIALIZATION as a DYNAMIC BALANCE)
- A&O CLASS NOTES—February 6 (REVIEW of NEEDS, ADAPTATION, LEARNING; build on NEEDS & add to them, MUSIC; connect NEEDS with STRESS with ADAPTATION)
- A&O CLASS NOTES—February 13 (REVIEW of Feb 6 activities & ideas that stood out; NEEDS, STRESS)
- A&O CLASS NOTES–February 20 (Links to EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE; assignments)
- A&O CLASS NOTES–February 27 (Links to DEEP ART and “TRUTH”)
- A&O CLASS NOTES–March 6 (Links to “is it ART or ARTIFACT?” Fragmentary evidence and ecphory)
- March 13 (Spring Break)
- A&O CLASS NOTES–March 20 (artifacts and objets trouve; outsider art. Reality Testing; adaptive functions of art)
- A&O CLASS NOTES–March 27 – special presentation by Jan Simek: “what can paleolithic art tell us about the dawn of consciousness.”
- A&O CLASS NOTES–April 3 – ideas pulled togerther by talk on Paleolithic art, what stood out for ypu, and questions remaining or emergent; COMMUNICATIONS and RITUALIZATION
- A&O CLASS NOTES–April 10 Ecology: optimality and search image as metaphors for aspects of cognition; More on how language affects culture — Lena Boroditsky’s research
- A&O CLASS NOTES–April 17 What does “meaning” mean? for example, “the meaning of life”
- A&O CLASS NOTES–April 24 Our Masks: layers of meaning? Off-campus A&O Symposium schedule