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Auteur(s) : Stafford, Barbara Maria (1941-....)
Titre(s) : Ribbon of darkness [Texte imprimé] : inferencing from the shadowy arts and sciences / Barbara Maria Stafford
Publication : Chicago, [Illinois] ; London : The university of Chicago press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : x, 217 pages : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Over the course of her career, Barbara Stafford has established herself the preeminent
scholar of the intersections of the arts and sciences, articulating new theories and
methods for understanding the sublime, the mysterious, the inscrutable. Omnivorous
in her research, she has published work that embraces neuroscience and philosophy,
biology and culture, pinpointing connections among each discipline's parallel concerns.
Ribbon of Darkness is a monument to the scope of her work and the range of her intellect.
At times associative, but always incisive, the essays in this new volume take on a
distinctly contemporary purpose: to uncover the ethical force and moral aspects of
overlapping scientific and creative inquiries. This shared territory, Stafford argues,
offers important insights into - and clarifications of - current dilemmas about personhood,
the supposedly menial nature of manual skill, the questionable borderlands of gene
editing, the potentially refining value of dualism, and the limits of a materialist
worldview. Stafford organizes these essays around three concepts that structure the
book: inscrutability, ineffability, and intuitability. All three, she explains, allow
us to examine how both the arts and the sciences imaginatively infer meaning from
the "veiled behavior of matter," bringing these historically divided subjects into
a shared intellectual inquiry and imbuing them with an ethical urgency. A vanguard
work at the intersection of the arts and sciences, this book will be sure to guide
readers from either realm into unfamiliar yet undeniably fertile territory
Sujet(s) : Art et sciences
Esthétique
Matière -- Philosophie
Indice(s) Dewey :
700.105 (23e éd.) = Arts - Influences des sciences et de la technologie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226630489. - ISBN 022663048X. - ISBN 9780226630519. - ISBN 022663051X. -
ISBN 9780226630656 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46529718r
Notice n° :
FRBNF46529718
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Preface: the bottom of the garden ; Introduction: on being struck: hitting the eye/arousing
the mind ; Inscrutability. "Black and glittering": the inscrutable sublime ; Lying
side by side: fitting color to eros ; The ultimate conjuncture: what shadows the brain-mind
merger? ; Reconceiving the Warburg Library as a working museum of the mind ; Ineffability.
From communicable matter to incommunicable "stuff": extreme combinatorics and the
return of ineffability ; Impossible to name: performing the ineffable ; "Totally visual?":
op art's neural iconography and the engineered picture ; Dark wonder: belowness, or
the ineffable underground ; Still deeper: the non-conscious sublime or the art and
science of submergence ; Intuitability. Strange shadows/marred screens ; Thought
gems: inferencing from the impersonal crystalline ; The jewel game: gems, fascination,
and the neuroscience of visual attention ; From observant eye to non-attentive "I":
the camera as cognitive device ; Seizing attention: devices and desires.
