UVC. Coursework Part 3

Oct 21, 20192 min read

Indexicality

Using the example of Rachel Whiteread’s work House 1993, I’ll try to figure out in what sense we can consider her work as an indexical...

Oct 17, 20192 min read

Nature & Culture

Saying nature is culture implies that one cannot be without the other. Nature gave rise to culture, and culture perceives nature,...

Oct 14, 20194 min read

Simulacrum on the example of Koons

When I was little, my mother took me to an amusement park. In the main square, between a fountain and a kiosk with cotton candy, a man...

Oct 10, 20193 min read

Constructed Reality

One cannot say the world is socially constructed and say there are misrepresentations. To an ordinary person (without a philosophical...

Apr 11, 20194 min read

Human authenticity

Does the development of artificial intelligence make us doubt the authenticity of human intelligence or it will be always a copy or a...

Feb 24, 20194 min read

Originality

1) The first original sentence. 2) The second original sentence. 3) The first original sentence containing two previous original...

Dec 10, 20183 min read

Meta-paintings

Just as I love freedom and abstraction, I love structure. So the first thing which is important to define is terminology. What is meta-...

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Nov 27, 20185 min read

Is Art a species of Visual Culture or it is independent?

Today, when a man screams on the street “- Searching an honest man!” probably some passerby will response and the rest would possible...

Nov 15, 20186 min read

Our world is constructed or given?

“I will be a Naturalist” (Emarson, 1832) I never was thinking that our life can be in different realities... till now. Of course, in...

Oct 7, 20183 min read

Sokal’s Quantum Gravity

“We've been focusing on the negative for too long: it's time I introduced you to my hero.” (Goldacre 2003, online) With these words, The...