TY - JOUR
T1 - Ignorance: Aesthetic Unlearning
AU - Bojesen, Emile
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to extend my gratitude to Karsten Kenklies, David Lewin and Phillip Tonner, who provided extremely helpful commentary on an earlier version of this article, helping me to more accurately focus on its ambitions and avoid numerous intellectual potholes. I am also grateful to Paul Standish for his patience and support in delivery of this article.
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PY - 2022/11/22
Y1 - 2022/11/22
N2 - This article proceeds from a consideration of what John Baldacchino calls ‘viable ignorance’, attempting to take leave from the critical and pedagogical obligations of certain elements of Barbara Johnson's ‘positive ignorance’. It considers Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-François Lyotard and the composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen's reflections on modes of experience, and the cultivation of complementary dispositions, where the knowing, egocentric subject is transformed into, or undermined as, what Nietzsche calls ‘a medium of overpowering forces’. The disposition itself is outlined through close readings of key elements of Nietzsche's notebooks, Lyotard's final chapter of Libidinal Economy (1993), and Stockhausen's lecture, ‘Intuitive Music’ (1971) and developed through supplemental practice-as-research activity in sound. The intention of this paper is to explore the space of aesthetic ignorance as committedly as possible, without reverting constantly to positive ignorance.
AB - This article proceeds from a consideration of what John Baldacchino calls ‘viable ignorance’, attempting to take leave from the critical and pedagogical obligations of certain elements of Barbara Johnson's ‘positive ignorance’. It considers Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-François Lyotard and the composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen's reflections on modes of experience, and the cultivation of complementary dispositions, where the knowing, egocentric subject is transformed into, or undermined as, what Nietzsche calls ‘a medium of overpowering forces’. The disposition itself is outlined through close readings of key elements of Nietzsche's notebooks, Lyotard's final chapter of Libidinal Economy (1993), and Stockhausen's lecture, ‘Intuitive Music’ (1971) and developed through supplemental practice-as-research activity in sound. The intention of this paper is to explore the space of aesthetic ignorance as committedly as possible, without reverting constantly to positive ignorance.
KW - Aesthetics
KW - Friedrich Nietzsche
KW - Jean-François Lyotard
KW - Karlheinz Stockhausen
KW - experience
KW - sound
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-9752.12705
DO - 10.1111/1467-9752.12705
M3 - Article
VL - 56
SP - 601
EP - 611
JO - Journal of Philosophy of Education
JF - Journal of Philosophy of Education
SN - 0309-8249
IS - 4
ER -