[-empyre-] Practice in Research & odd methods, rude mechanics

[Adrian Miles]

On Saturday, 19 January 2013 at 2:08 AM, Simon Biggs wrote: 
> ... and to respond to my own email (probably bad etiquette) one can observe the obverse to be the case - just as plenty of research is not necessarily instrumental so too is much art instrumental, whether responding to a commission brief, applying for thematised funding, completing a work destined to be sold in an art gallery or making adjustments to a performance in response to audience feedback. Adrian's argument has value but is too black and white...
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absolutely. Much art is plainly instrumental, but in terms of pragmatic definitional discussions a stronger place to begin from is recognising that art does not need to be, which does not mean that it might not - though of course that's a slippery slope that brings art closer to the design disciplines. Similarly research must (and at this stage I'm very much of the view that this is black and white) begin from the position that it has use value outside of itself. Where either falls in individual cases will vary, but each begin from different assumptions of use value.  

This is, I think, something Deleuze and Guattari describe very well in "What is Philosopy?" btw.

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an appropriate closing
Adrian Miles
Program Director Bachelor of Media and Communication (Honours)
RMIT University - www.rmit.edu.au
http://vogmae.net.au/


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