Food has savour: a collection of properties (including appearance, aroma, mouth-feel) connected with the pleasure (or displeasure) of eating. This paper argues that savour is aesthetically evaluable ...—it is not merely “agreeable”. Further, like paradigm examples of art, savour can be assessed by how it references, or “exemplifies”, cultural norms. This paper is part of a larger project in which I develop an account of the pleasure of art. It is a virtue of my approach that it permits a much greater diversity of artforms than traditional philosophical aesthetics is inclined to allow. This includes food.
La comida tiene lo que en inglés se llama sabor: una colección de propiedades (incluidas apariencia, aroma, sensación bucal) conectadas con el placer (o disgusto) de comer. Este artículo argumenta que el sabor es evaluable estéticamente —no es meramente “agradable”. Más aún, al igual que ejemplos paradigmáticos de arte, el sabor puede ser evaluado por cómo refiere o “ejemplifica” normas culturales. Este artículo es parte de un proyecto más amplio en el que desarrollo una posición sobre el placer del arte. Esta posición permite una mayor diversidad de formas de arte que las que abarca la estética filosófica tradicional. Y aquí se incluye la comida.
This article analyses the correspondence between the Valencian priest and art critic Alfons Roig and the painter Manolo Millares throughout the period 1956-1957. The contents of this correspondence ...reveal aspects of interest in the artistic activity of the Canarian painter and the work of Roig's dissemination of contemporary art. A second part of the article examines the contents of a text prepared by Millares on his work sent to Roig and today preserved in the foundation that bears his name in Valencia. The interest of this text is that it represents Millares' first important reflection on his work at a key moment in his artistic life, clearly evolving towards informalism.
This article argues that the modern notion of immersion, a reader being absorbed in a virtual world to such a degree that she experiences it as if it were the actual world, has a predecessor in the ...ancient notion of enargeia, "the power of bringing the things that are said before the senses of the audience." First, it discusses how ancient Greek literary critics theorized about enargeia. Since these critics praise Homer as an author who is particularly capable of achieving enargeia, its second objective is to examine the narrative techniques by which he immerses his audience in his story world.
In this paper we focus on the concept of critical optimism, a concept that has served many authors to explain orientation about the future. It means to be neither mechanistic in our imagination of ...the world nor naive about the expectations the future can hold. Recently scholars have appealed to critical optimism to explain how we should relate to the digital, since when facing technology often, also in the scientific literature, we find extreme opinions. After ten years that the debate around technology and social research has developed on these two opposite visions, we promote an active engagement in testing the different instruments of digital research. Digital methods and big data must be integrated with traditional data sources and methods already existing in social sciences, and that is the right way to effectively improve the unfolding of social phenomena. In support of this thesis, we want to bring two examples that can demonstrate how the use of digital technologies did not lead to abandoning the traditional techniques of social research, but it instead has contributed to solving some problems in the use of these techniques, which before digital were hard to solve. Here, we will illustrate just two examples, the survey and the experiment, that relate to quantitative research, although certainly there are others that can be retraced in quantitative as well as qualitative research.
This paper provides an overview of the Reading Wars as a site of discursive struggle. Using a digital sociological account of online events associated with the 2018 Phonics Debate hosted by the ...Australian Centre for Educational Research and the think tank the Centre for Independent Studies, this paper works to illuminate and challenge contemporary understanding of the politics of literacy teaching. If educational researchers are to clarify the relationship between politics and literacy in the twenty-first century we must understand how boundaries are negotiated using digital tools and how the literacy professional community is imagined. Using a Bourdieu-facilitated digital sociology, this paper will present a case study of the 2018 Phonics Debate to illustrate how literacy researchers and cognitive scientists have used social media as a space to navigate, negotiate and reimagine the contours of the field of literacy itself. Author abstract, ed
Focusing on Love Story Black, William Demby's 1978 novel, this article considers how it can be classified as part of what Pancho Savery calls the "Third Plane." Given that Demby's first novel ...Beetlecreek was published in 1950, while the other Third Plane artists' major works were first published in the late 1960s/early 1970s, Demby is not normally included in this group. Ultimately, I argue that Love Story Black shares many important features with other Third Plane books and should be counted among them, allowing for a reconsideration of Demby's later work as more contemporary and influential than has previously been recognized.
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