Intuitive clarity
Significant discourse
Syntactical regimentation
The received discourse of contemporaneity and allurement is a normative narrative. As spontaneous stages within a broader durational process, human affects influence instantaneous experience. The city responds moment by moment in a multitude of design configurations.
“We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Universal sense
Reconciling itself
Internal coherence
Accustomed to accepting changes with eyes focused on land and sky, a long autumn walk proceeds in vigorous anonymity. Remembering that mental symbols do not reflect or correspond to the immense complexity of the referent, bright trees stand tall.
“Whenever we have any experience which might be called ‘aesthetic,’ that is whenever we are enjoying, contemplating, admiring or appreciating an object, there are plainly different parts of the situation on which emphasis can be laid.” – C. K. Ogden
Existence immediacy
Establishing regularities
Power of abstraction
Aesthetic cognition goes beyond just consciousness, percolating in a mental underworld of more complete functionality. Opening up possibilities, receiving messages from this cerebral realm breaks creativity free from reason.
“What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now.” – Hans-Georg Gadamer
Assembling material
Gradual application
Fictional knowledge
Heading into the city with keen expectancy, new sensations await interpretation within a sporadically encountered stimulation field.
“The psyche works over the material presented to it by the sensations, i.e. elaborates the only available foundation with the help of the logical forms; it sifts the sensations, on the one hand cutting away definite portions of the given sensory material, in conformity with the logical functions, and on the other making subjective additions to what is immediately given – and it is in these very operations that the process of acquiring knowledge consists and it is all the while departing from reality as given to it.” – Hans Vaihinger
Creative uncertainty
Actuality indetermination
Decisive speculation
Operations encountered in experience exhibit a mysterious character. Understanding existence means reducing quintessence to known forms of representation. Skilled in aesthetics, the artist contradicts common interpretations by transforming sensations into expedient alternative impressions.
“From the chaos of sensations emerges differentiated perception.” – Hans Vaihinger
Supposing ends
Objective validity
Progressive arrival
Because human beings can never definitively comprehend the underlying reality of existence, they construct systems of thought and then assume that these match actuality. In this framework, art can function as a means towards an understanding that eludes reason.
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Indispensable foundation
Aesthetic enjoyment
Calm recognition
Despite consciously false concepts, we nevertheless arrive at reliable consequences. The mental processes make sense of an idea by assimilating it into the aggregate of already possessed suppositions.
“The object is not to make art. It is to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable” – Robert Henri
Urban vibe
Upscale style
Level of living
In the moment, component types and topology eclecticism obtains from distinct temporal developments. A concurrency of color and architectural styles merge into an abstract inner-city expression. Experience-based evidence along with qualitative reasoning explains specific aesthetic properties.
“A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.” – Thomas Leonard
Original intention
Adequate functionality
Aesthetic appeal
Creative design must have an objective, even if the sole reason for existing is to be viewed or otherwise experienced. Although many manufactured objects embody specific functionality, if their configuration is visually engaging then they also may be considered as art.
“Design is an expression of purpose, and if it is good enough it may later be judged as art; design depends largely on constraints and it is a method of action.” – Charles Eames
Wave function
Passing potential
Effect transitioning
Even the most simple and seemingly well understood phenomena are extremely intricate and thus inscrutable. Part of the impenetrable uncertainty comes with the realization that much of existence is sense dependent.
“Holes in the fabric of the universe exist, but they will change over time. Let’s hope that we find one before it does.” – Anthony T. Hincks