ArtiFact #3: Art & Art's Object | Alex Sheremet, Dan Schneider
In this episode of ArtiFact, Alex Sheremet and poet, critic, and novelist Dan Schneider discuss the foundations of art. Unfortunately, tech issues cut the conversation short, but there is ~10 minutes of episode outtakes near the end.
You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xse5XbhH7aE
Read the latest writing from automachination: https://automachination.com
Dan Schneider's website: http://cosmoetica.com
Music sample: Lowkemia - "Lorem Ipsum" (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Timestamps:
0:13 - Introduction
3:39 - Will Dan write essays again?
5:22 - Do prose and poetry writers filter the world differently?
8:23 - Why competing definitions of art have led to confusion
13:13 - Definitions of art can't *just* be additive...
15:20 - ...because most stories are not worth telling!
17:54 - A Darwinian explanation of the arts
28:52 - Why the generic is generic
33:27 - Alex: in time, society will improve its artistic baseline
36:28 - Dan: but there will always be regression
53:17 - Generic "specialness" might paradoxically explain a deeper "uniqueness"
01:02:24 - Sexual selection and the arts
01:10:54 - ArtiFact Outtakes: 9 Rants About 9 Things
