JAV200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Karl Popper, Progressive Field, Auguste Comte
9 Mar 2018
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What is the role of an artist when photographs can produce images better: now it is to bring social/political forces it is reactive. Used visual documents to extend the way we see the world technology was pushing itself to do better progressive field: art is moving with it as a reaction shadowing each other. Positivism: empirical philosophical position that supports a scientific engagement of the world and assumes meaning exists out in the world, independent of feelings or beliefs. Objectivity: the desire for unbiased, non-emotional perspective based in methodological protocol or mediated observation usually referring to rational argument or scientific presentation. Objectivity has always been defined in relation and opposition to subjective position as a corrective: a system that with a tool to measure it so it becomes standardized with this we can create reproducible experiments. An artifact has value based on its authenticity to its claims of originality or connection to an event or figure.
