On delight: Thoughts for tomorrow

Westermann, Claudia ORCID: 0000-0001-7853-6014 (2018) On delight: Thoughts for tomorrow. TECHNOETIC ARTS, 16 (1). pp. 43-51.

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Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The article introduces the problematics of the classical two-valued logic on which Western thought is generally based, outlining that under the conditions of its logical assumptions the subject I is situated in a world that it cannot address. In this context, the article outlines a short history of cybernetics and the shift from first- to second-order cybernetics. The basic principles of Gordon Pask’s 1976 Conversation Theory are introduced. It is argued that this second-order theory grants agency to others through a re-conception of living beings as You logically transcending the I. The key principles of Conversation Theory are set in relation to the poetic forms of discourse that played a key role in art as well as philosophical thinking in China in the past. Second-order thinking, the article argues, is essentially poetic. It foregoes prediction in favour of the potentiality of encountering tomorrow’s delights.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	art, aesthetics, poetics, second-order cybernetics, Conversation Theory, China
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	10 Sep 2018 06:59
Last Modified:	26 Jun 2023 23:55
DOI:	10.1386/tear.16.1.43_1
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3025949