Statisticians identify population size, preexisting technology and geographic connectivity as the fuels for military technology.
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May2022 Title 5: Developments in military tech, cliometrics & Cliodynamics: how to interpret the raw data of the past through interdisciplinary methods from the H Sciences...
I can plan and orchestrate the Interpretive Opportunities I want to present based on reliable principles, and continue to fine-tune the program as my knowledge and experience with different audiences deepens.
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May2022 Title 5: The 'Interpretative Equation', measuring creativity: a math metaphor to help discern what makes a good artistic interpretation & how this can be taught... (long read)
May2022 Title 5: Striped nanoparticles, data analysis & the problem of hyperempiricism: TWE are good scientific interpretations ones that re-examine the original data of research?
“Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art… Our task is to cut back content so that we can see the thing at all.”
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May2022 Title 5: Interpretation, mis-interpretation & over-interpretation: Exploring Susan Sonntag''s ideas of what makes good or bad artistic judgments...
“I feel like we should all feel lucky that Frank Bowling is still with us and showing, and not forgotten” Mack said.
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May2022 Title 5: Artistic intentions, 'The Black Experience' & the double standards of beauty: good interpretations of art by black artists needs to account for its innovation.
Forensics can’t be sure. Provenance can be fudged. This is why the expert eye still rules the game of art authentication
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May2022 Title 5: Connoisseurship, provenance & forensics: TWE is good interpretation in the context of artistic judgment ultimately a matter of having a 'good eye'?
Interpretation is one of those words we hear about all the time. Events, data, and pictures are interpreted. Similarly, there are a lot of vague definitions thrown around about interpretation, especially when it comes history. Yet, what exactly is a historical interpretation and how do we know what constitutes a good and a bad interpretation?…
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May2022 Title 5: Inference, explanation & 'pointless interpretative generalisations':: a deep dive into the elements, types & process of historical interpretations...
By Ceren Ayyildiz, Alicia Kelleher-Clarke, Anthi Georgiadou, Alex Weber, Sean-Lee Duncan Aesthetic Judgement: An Historical Context Have you ever wondered how a piece of operatic music can bring one person to tears and yet make another want to obliterate the source from which the sound is emanating? Or how a pumping EDM track can make…
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May2022 Title 5: Music, emotion & matters of taste: experiments quantifying aesthetic judgments based on emotional reactions is inconclusive about how to distinguish between 'good' or 'bad' ones...
Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms are widely used by historians. But does anyone benefit?
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May2022 Title 5: Shrinking crocodiles, historical truth & the plight of historians: in what ways do the 'disorders of social media' generate the 'liberty of alternative interpretations'?
The dispute between orthodox and revisionist historians of the Second Indochina War is not about debating points, but about permanent differences of basic value systems and perceptions of historical reality. The epistemological dispute between their opposing concepts of historical truth -- objective truth versus subjective "truthiness" -- may be endlessly analyzed, but probably never fully resolved.
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May2022 Title 5: The Vietnam conflict, orthodox views & revisionist challenges: counterfactual speculations & conceptions of subjective 'truthiness' lead to 'bad' historical interpretations of of the past...
This is still a pursuit of truth. In each examination of a problem, even if new facts are not discovered, a new insight might be brought. The experience of the historian’s life might help her spot a previously missed connection, previous errors might be cleared up and some facts shown not to be...
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May2022 Title 5: Debate, discussion & conversation towards the pursuit of truth: good historical interpretations are a matter of cultivating 'informed, epistemic, honest opinion'...
Some 50 years after his death, a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales shows why the work of Marcel Duchamp continues to challenge the very idea of what art may be.
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May2022 Title 5: 'Ready-mades' & the dehumanisation of art: How artists challenge the conventional interpretations of what makes good or bad art...
Her oncologist sent her in to the emergency room. The diagnosis was metastatic gallbladder cancer aggressively invading her liver, resulting in liver failure.
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May2022 Title 5: Prognosis, diagnosis & bringing bad news: TWE are good medical judgments about balancing 'personal experience & training' with the body of 'accumulated scientific knowledge'?
John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’ exploded a discipline. But his greatest legacy might be a quieter project of re-enchantment
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May2022 Title 5: Aesthetic connoisseurship or analytic critique? Good art interpretation is a matter of questioning, dissecting & getting to 'fundamental anatomies: capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, mimetic desire'...
One person likes Britney, another likes Beethoven. One person can discern the notes and texture of a Merlot, another just enjoys a glass of red. But is taste purely subjective? For Hume, good taste was discerned by a good critic, who met certain criteria – a kind of virtue aesthetics (in place of virtue ethics). However, things are not quite that simple, writes Nick Zangwill.
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May2022 Title 5: Sentimentalism, the aesthetic sensibility & 'standards of taste: exploring the strengths & weaknesses of Hume's five categories of good artistic interpretation...
According to literary critic and theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, Dostoevsky's talents were on par with those of William Shakespeare.
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May2022 Title 5: Dostoevsky, polyphony & the 'carnivalesque': Good literary interpretations trace how authors 'get closer to truth [in their fiction] than they could through the reality that had originally inspired them...'
Can great art be explained? Isn’t it a little like explaining a joke? Yet this can be worthwhile when the joke is in a foreign language or an unfamiliar idiom, a long-forgotten dialect or an alien idiolect. Open Culture, openculture.com
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May2022 Title 5: From Warhol to Picasso & beyond: TWE must a 'good' artistic interpretation be 'jargon free, entertaining, clear and concise'?
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