Anthropomorphobia is the fear of acknowledging in nonhumans qualities we wish to consider only human. Anthropomorphobia is traditionally associated with anxiety responses to fictional animal characters displaying human behavior in works of fiction like “The Secret of NIMH”. However, with the development of androids and robots that mimic human behavior, the concept of anthropomorphobia has [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘art theory’
May 4, 2009
Chaos Theory, Fractals and the complexity of existence…
I’ve promised you few notes on “Fractal Ontology”. Well, here they go…
The term bridges philosophical notion of ‘ontology’ -(Greek meaning: ‘theory/science of being’) with the phenomenon of ‘fractals’ taken from the natural sciences and maths. Going deeper – ‘fractals’ originate from the Chaos Theory, and this is where one probably should start all the explanations.
Chaos [...]
February 15, 2009
Liminality in Art (1)
This is meant to be an attempt in coining a new term in the Art Theory field.
Curiously enough, the term Liminality continues not to be recognised by the modern dictionaries of English; even though numerous (stated below) researchers have been using it in academic papers. It doesn’t exist as an aesthetic concept or any distinguished [...]
November 7, 2008
Modern, postmodern and conceptual – a date with the ‘now’
Let’s imagine that they met as actual beings – the ‘modern’, the ‘postmodern’ and the ‘conceptual’ – at a round table in a cafeteria. The ‘modern’ is classically beautiful yet it wears rebellious clothes, there is a spark of a charismatic idealism in its eyes; the ‘postmodern’ is the ‘modern’s twin sister, yet it does [...]
January 31, 2008
Jacques Derrida’s riddle
O right, he was maybe rightfully accused of philosophical sophistry, obscurantism and … nihilism (it’s amazing, that in the post-modern reality ‘nihilist’ still sounds for some like an insult…) and it’s true that, as skillful thinker he is, as awkward writer/ author he happens to be… History of philosophy, art and even literature knows dozens [...]
