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- Title
Aesthetic Education.
- Abstract
In this essay Vilém Flusser outlines a liberating approach to aesthetic education that overcomes the disintegration of culture exemplified by the disastrous tripartition of science, politics, and art. Flusser views this tripartition as an inevitable consequence of the unmanageable quantity of information available to modern humans that prevents them from participating completely and acquiring true competence in culture. The response to these overwhelming quantities of information is a turn to specialization. Flusser contrasts this current state of culture with the imagined unity of the Stone Age before the dissolution of a unified culture. As part of his solution to this dilemma, Flusser rejects the view that knowledge of every aspect of culture must be the prerequisite for competence with culture. He posits instead that the task of future education will be to train students to access, connect, and manipulate the information that modern technologies allow us to store. In this way the goal of school will be to train generalists, not specialists. Knowledge transfer is out. These generalists are quasi artists who participate actively in the growth of culture. Flusser evokes an original meaning of art from before the tripartition, art as method, in this case a method that facilitates communication between different subcultures and generates new information from what our technologies have stored.
- Subjects
FLUSSER, Vilem, 1920-1991; AESTHETICS education; STONE Age; SUBCULTURES; KNOWLEDGE transfer; VISUAL culture; FACILITATED communication
- Publication
China Media Research, 2024, Vol 20, Issue 2, p14
- ISSN
1556-889X
- Publication type
Article