︎ The Aesthesis of Unworlding: Against Aesthetic Inferentialism

June 26, 2021

This lecture will consider the limits of a post/inhumanist aesthetics which views aesthetic cognition as a dynamic set of rule governed symbolic and world-building practices (on analogy with inferentialism in semantics). I will argue that such accounts overstate the constitutive power of rules while failing to offer an ontology that can explain the dynamics of symbolic change that it presupposes. In response, I want to show that an adequate aesthetics must include an ontology of the encounter which grounds and disturbs (or ungrounds) the coherence of aesthetic practice

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(David Roden)