tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448613549782052868.post4734879799810574819..comments2024-01-23T16:31:22.429-08:00Comments on The Nintendo Project: An 8-Bit Psychochronography: Dagger Poems in the Slimy Bellies (Barker Bob's Trick Shooting and Bard's Tale)Elizabeth Sandiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337209180846868581noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448613549782052868.post-72092709506016755422010-09-25T11:00:29.318-07:002010-09-25T11:00:29.318-07:00"To write is to take aim - to make everything..."To write is to take aim - to make everything take aim." That-right there- made me love you a little bit. Seriously, please keep this project going. It's utterly brilliant and fascinating, and I can't wait to read more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448613549782052868.post-85383642852009203292010-09-10T10:37:50.641-07:002010-09-10T10:37:50.641-07:00I respectfully differ - I think art is actually re...I respectfully differ - I think art is actually relatively unambiguous. There are a set of facts, just as with science or journalism. Beowulf says what it says. Words have meaning. It is a mistake to treat ambiguity as belonging to some class other than meaning. Ambiguity is communicable data. Yes, individual reactions to art vary. But they do to journalism as well. The fact of subjective reactions to a thing does not inherently call into question the meaning of the thing. <br /><br />The problem is that we (to my mind wrongly) teach people to value the individuality of their reactions, and prioritize how art makes you feel over the content of the art. This is no more sensible than the parody of New Math - how does the fraction make you feel? <br /><br />Yes, art is generally designed to elicit a reaction from its assumed audience. But that reaction is determined and intended by the work itself. Baraka's poetry is designed to produce a given response. Whether or not one feels that response is immaterial - the intended response can be discerned from the poems. When we marginalize this fact in favor of concern with individual response, we stop talking about art and opt instead for masturbation.Elizabeth Sandiferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18337209180846868581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448613549782052868.post-27934218037138911972010-09-10T07:26:56.712-07:002010-09-10T07:26:56.712-07:00Pretty close-minded of you to consider your studen...Pretty close-minded of you to consider your students as unable to experience art. If anything, art is, as compared to science reports, journalism and such, about the ambiguity of meaning, the understanding (or incomprehension) emerging from the gap between the creator and the viewer. It's not that your students don't experience art; they just don't experience it the way you do, involuntarily (or maybe even consciously) opting for a faster, more condensed, more face-value interpretation of what they see. It's just different, not better nor worse.<br />I'm pretty surprised I'm telling you this; you seemed cynical enough to see things that way already.Fhylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13022749908800752122noreply@blogger.com