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DYNAMITE: ANARCHISM, MODERNISM, AESTHETICS [PDF]

, 2002
This book argues for the intersection of anarchist theory, modernist writers, and aesthetic innovations under the sign of "the bomb." Individual chapters concern such figures as Joseph Conrad, Richard Wagner, Henry Adams, Andrei Bely, Edna St.
Hamilton, Carol V.
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AESTHETIC RISK [PDF]

Think, 2018
Artists often emphasize the importance of risk to their work. But this raises a puzzle, as on a standard probabilistic account of risk we are obliged to treat some of these cases as not involving genuine risk at all. It is argued that the way to resolve this puzzle is to recognize a crucial shortcoming in the probabilistic account of risk.
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The anticipation of events in time

Nature Communications, 2019
The brain predicts upcoming events—a fundamental operation assumed to depend on the event hazard rate and a linearly increasing uncertainty in time estimation.
Matthias Grabenhorst, Georgios Michalareas, Laurence T. Maloney, David Poeppel   +3 more
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Aesthetics and literature : a problematic relation? [PDF]

, 2007
The paper argues that there is a proper place for literature within aesthetics but that care must be taken in identifying just what the relation is. In characterising aesthetic pleasure associated with literature it is all too easy to fall into reductive
F. Kermode, F. Sibley, H. Bloom, M. Budd, M. Rowe, N. Carroll, P. Bourdieu, P. Kivy, P. V. Lamarque, P. V. Lamarque, P. V. Lamarque, P. V. Lamarque, P. V. Lamarque, P. V. Lamarque, P. V. Lamarque, Peter Lamarque, R. Barthes, R. Rorty, R. Stecker, S. Feagin, S. H. Olsen, T. Eagleton, T. Greene, W. Peer van   +23 more
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Social processing distorts physical distance perception

Scientific Reports
Psychopathy is traditionally linked to higher-level cognitive processes, but its impact on low-level cognitive functions has remained largely unexplored.
Georgios Michalareas, Claudia Lehr, Matthias Grabenhorst, Heiko Hecht   +3 more
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A Commentary on Poudrier's "Tapping to Carter: Mensural Determinacy in Complex Rhythmic Sequences"

Empirical Musicology Review, 2018
This paper is a brief commentary on Poudrier's (2017) research article titled "Tapping to Carter: Mensural Determinacy in Complex Rhythmic Sequences." Poudrier's study aimed "to explore the relative salience of an implied beat in two contrasting rhythmic
Timo Fischinger, Annette van Dyck-Hemming   +1 more
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Aesthetics, Video Art and Television [PDF]

, 1979
The author reviews two symposia: \u27The Video Arts: Demonstration and Discussion\u27, The American Society for Aesthetics, New York City, 28 Oct. 1978, and \u27The Aestheticians Look at Television\u27, National Association of Education Broadcasters ...
Carter, Curtis L.
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Facial aesthetics: babies prefer attractiveness to symmetry [PDF]

, 1994
The visual preferences of human infants for faces that varied in their attractiveness and in their symmetry about the midline were explored. The aim was to establish whether infants' visual preference for attractive faces may be mediated by the vertical ...
Butterworth, G, Graupner, Ludmila, Hole, Graham, Roberts, T, Samuels, CA   +4 more
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Inadvertent - Ars accidentalis [PDF]

, 2008
Even though art is the product of an intentional act of fabrication, the serendipitous spill of an ink or paint, the unforeseen slip of a pen or brush, sudden shake of a camera in the analog realm have the potential of generating an unconscious lead in ...
Germen, Murat
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The Aesthetics of Natural Environments [PDF]

, 2005
This is a very positive review of Carlson, Allen, and Arnold Berleant, ed. 2004. The Aesthetics of Natural Environments. Broadview Press. -/-
Loftis, J. Robert
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