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MIMESIS | Philosophy 161 UCLA

Susan Tran

  • Introduction
    Hi classmates,My name is Susan. Until today, I had no idea that I've ever engaged in what's called mimetic exploration. Correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm still confused about the concepts of mimesis and mimetic exploration. From what I picked up i…
    - 28 Mar 11, 3:59pm -

Visperas Biley

  • Narratives as Demonstrations?
    I was thinking whether or not narratives can be considered as demonstrations. I believe that mimetic works are demonstrations. To illustrate: when an actor in a play is laying food on the table, he’s actions are not laying the table but imitated an…
    - 22 May 11, 5:03pm -
  • Kero’s Idea
    Kero wanted to ask whether culture is mimetic. When a mimetic work becomes so important within a culture, it becomes part of that culture, he believes. My concern in this topic is if mimetic works are mainly fictional or non-serious, how would cultur…
    - 21 May 11, 1:27pm -
  • Fear in Tragedy (A Typecast)
    I decided to try something different. I typed this on my portable typewriter, a Hermes 3000. I love the look of a typewritten paper, so I decided to replicate it in this post. If you have a hard time reading it on the blog, click the picture to enlar…
    - 13 Apr 11, 1:27am -
  • Likely Impossibility vs Unlikely Possibility
    I am somewhat familiar to this concept. Professor Walter mentioned this, although he said ‘plausible impossibility’. This concept has to do with the suspension of disbelief. To understand this, we must define both words. Plausible/likely: Somethi…
    - 10 Apr 11, 1:03pm -
  • A New Series for a Neglected Blog

    - 28 Mar 11, 10:55pm -
  • A New Blog on Stolen Ideas
    I originally started using tumblr to express myself and to give my opinions on the world, philosophy, and culture. Unfortunately, the conformist in me took over so I decided to use a system that should be more serious. Hello WordPress! My subversive…
    - 9 Feb 11, 12:36am -

Laura Rivera

  • 8 Don't Quote Me
    Be forewarned, I am likely to absolutely misquote Clark and Gerrig (and Woody Allen) in the following blog post. In their essay, "Quotations as Demonstrations," quotations are described as demonstrating instead of merely describing or indicating cer…
    - 8 May 11, 11:14pm -
  • 4. Charles Bernstein.....uuuh, yes?
    Bernstein, L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E Poet and Critic. Will be a baller night.
    - 25 Apr 11, 11:32am -
  • 18.b Sonnet by John Ashbery, Walton
    a. Every person is affected by a different word-proposition and each image-proposition could be interpreted in a different way. b. A collective interpretation could be created through a poetry discussion to create a quasi-unified sphere of play. The…
    - 18 Apr 11, 3:35pm -
  • 18 Social Poetry
    There might be a subversive reason why I have been avoiding poetry these past couple of weeks. I am studying a concentration in poetry and I should be working toward finishing my thesis, but some strong force inside of me has compelled me not to t…
    - 18 Apr 11, 3:21pm -
  • 11 Zizek, UCLA, Violence and Personas (no relation)
    Since we have mentioned violence quite often in our conversations, perhaps you might be interested in attending this lecture. Zizek...in LA! "In the talk, Zizek used his wit, humor, and pop culture references in an exploration of violence in our s…
    - 11 Apr 11, 4:00pm -
  • 4 Beautiful Eats + You are what you eat
    [Splitting by Gordon Matta-Clark, 1974]Before I get into the Deliciousness of Food, I wanted to address a comment that someone made in class about whether a House remains a House "formally" if it is cut in half (made into a half house or two halves o…
    - 4 Apr 11, 6:25pm -
  • 30 McCloud, Vocabulary of Comics
    Since I mentioned some unintelligible ideas about Comic Book Theory in class today, I thought I would share with you a fragment from Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, particularly the chapter on "Vocabulary of Comics."Scott McCloud's "Vocabulary…
    - 30 Mar 11, 7:09pm -
  • 29 violence
    [check out this perspective picture from "Last House On the Left." Camera angles attempt to achieve the effect that some of the violence is directed to the viewer, making the experience of fear more effective.]Although I usually wouldn't admit to suc…
    - 29 Mar 11, 4:24pm -
  • this is not a blog post
    A great source:::The full text to Foucault's book This is Not a Pipe ::::::: http://foucault.info/documents/foucault.thisIsNotaPipe.en.htmlRene Magritte - "The Treason of Images"
    - 28 Mar 11, 10:26pm -
  • 28.1 dada
    p. 48 Hans Richter, Dada: Art and Anti-Art[thoughts based on our first class meeting on the concept of art as mimesis]Currently reading Richter's book on the Dada movement, based on his involvement in its genesis through its dissolution.~yay~I won't…
    - 28 Mar 11, 9:44pm -
  • 28 intro
    "Portrait of Pope Innocent X" by Diego Valazquez + Study after Velazquez's "Portrait of Pope Innocent X" by Francis Baconreal vs surreal, external vs internal, implied vs just plain creepydifferent effects are sought in artwork to engage the viewer i…
    - 28 Mar 11, 12:12pm -

Eli Shkurkin

  • The soul of music
    Here is my paper. I learned alot about music in writhing this paper. I’m actually really exited by the realizations that i talk about near the end. I have spent all of my life trying to understand music and working with Aristotle’s theory of musi…
    - 14 Jun 11, 12:00am -
  • Classmates Paper topic
    I feel bad, I forgot his name. But his topic was good. He was interested in the philosophy of language so he is going to write his paper about mimesis and language. He responds to clark and Gerrigs idea that demonstrations are non-serious actions. H…
    - 18 May 11, 11:56pm -
  • Paper topic
    In class we have discussed mimesis in plays and literary works.  A few questions have been nagging at me since the beginning of class: how is mimesis related to live music performance? Does live music encourage mimetic exploration? What parts of a l…
    - 15 May 11, 5:11pm -
  • MIMESIS so far
    I decided to go through everything we have covered so far in class to help me get some ideas for the paper. I chose three questions and made a list of all the ideas that we have covered that are relevant to the ideas. I hope this will help you, and i…
    - 8 May 11, 9:38pm -
  • Make believe
    In class we have been talking about Waltons theory of representational art. He believes that representational art is used as props for games of make believe that older people play. Ive been taking note of the way i interact with representational art…
    - 25 Apr 11, 12:44pm -
  • NY times article
    Today the prof. sent out an NY times article about music. One of the main points in the article was that people enjoy music more when a human is performing it. The imperfections and acting done by a human musician makes the music have more affect to…
    - 19 Apr 11, 9:09pm -
  • Improvisation
    Im about to go to bed but thinking about advice for playwrights led me to wonder, is improvisation mimetic? are you creating a world for the audience when you do improv comedy or play a guitar solo? or, because the audience is part of the creation th…
    - 18 Apr 11, 12:20am -
  • Mimetic commercials
    When Aristotle wrote the poetics he gave advice to playwrights on how to construct an effective tragedy. Times have changed and many of us no longer have the patience for drawn out epics with developed characters and intricate plot-lines. Most of the…
    - 17 Apr 11, 11:52pm -
  • After the art
    In class we talked about mimetic art affecting the way you feel or what you think after the performance is finished. For example after watching Alien Vs. Predator i was somewhat afraid of the dark for a few hours. It seems that the movie taught me th…
    - 13 Apr 11, 12:08am -
  • I am the actor
    In class we have been talking about how an actor in the play assumes the identity that they are playing when they are performing. It has been proposed that this assumed identity takes over the actors actual identity.I had a particularly good band pr…
    - 5 Apr 11, 11:50pm -
  • Music and Mimesis
    I have been meaning to post for a few days now but haven’t had a developed enough idea to put down. I waiting to talk to the prof about mimesis and music. I play music all day every day, and listen to music on the way to playing music. From what I…
    - 4 Apr 11, 12:16am -
  • Good art
    I had my first class in aesthetic philosophy today. Still trying to figure out what mimesis is. From what I know about it so far it seems like a description of good art- art that one can loose themselves in. I want to know more about mimesis and musi…
    - 28 Mar 11, 11:58pm -
  • Im not gunna show you my face, the internet is too dangerous.
    Im not gunna show you my face, the internet is too dangerous.
    - 28 Mar 11, 11:47pm -

Wanjae Shin

  • No Subject.
    As I finish The Rum Diary, by Hunter S. Thomson, I began to think more in depth of the purposes of this class. As I am reading through multiple chapters and listening through multiple albums simultaneously, I recognized my mind being in such an intr…
    - 1 Jun 11, 12:45am -
  • Wednesday, Final Paper Topic Discussion
    In class, I got to briefly discuss Hakop's and Jose's paper topics after discussing my own. Hakop also plans to write about music with respect to question 3 as I am. Yet, our topics are much different since I'm writing about music in general and he i…
    - 21 May 11, 3:30pm -
  • Song is to mortals of all things the sweetest.
    I began narrowing the scope of my research for my final paper and finally settled on the subject of music. Regarding music as mimetic form of art, I will answer questions 2 (imagination/play), 3 (value), and 4 (content). In particular, I will explore…
    - 17 May 11, 10:22pm -
  • Creating fictional truths
    Above is a link to a song by Panda Bear (Noah Lennox, a member of Animal Collective) from his self-titled album from 1998. The whole album is quite good but that's besides the point of this post. Walton's theories on mechanisms of generations have be…
    - 8 May 11, 5:15pm -
  • Introduction
    Hello hello,I'm Wanjae Shin. I look forward to getting to know you. Now, let's talk about mimesis.In class, the staged conversation between the Spectator and the Advocate made it clear that mimesis and mimetic exploration are things much more complic…
    - 29 Mar 11, 1:59pm -

Jordan Goldman

  • Hello world!
    Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
    - 19 Oct 11, 7:52pm -

Douglas Loera

  • Random thoughts at 5AM
    I've seriously been considering the different aspects of mimesis as applied to what we've been in class, especially this last lecture. It seems that the difference between the mimetic content within music and literature/poems/plays/.... is that music…
    - 16 Apr 11, 5:27am -
  • First post
    My name is Douglas Loera, though Doug fits well enough. I am a third year transfer student (about to finish off my first year this quarter), coming from the Bay Area of California.Mimesis seems to be the representation of reality through art forms. B…
    - 29 Mar 11, 6:18pm -

Robert Gomez

  • Mimetic Journey
    I had a chance to visit the Getty Center. There was a new exhibit called "The Gods of Angkor". It was a collection of bronze statuary from northwest CCambodia depicting Buddha and Pre and Post Vedic gods. To see these carefully crafted images wrought…
    - 10 Apr 11, 9:57pm -
  • What is memesis?
    I wanted to begin my philosophical journey on mimetic contemplation with  a accurate sense of the word memesis so began by looking for working definitions. This in itself proves to be a bit of an issue as it seems to be wrapped in a semantic problem…
    - 3 Apr 11, 7:46pm -

Chinyerum Okpara

    Quyen Dao

    • week 1 3/29
      Hi everyone, I'm Quyen. The mimetic art forms I participate in the most are art and fiction. I used to do a lot of visual art -- taking drawing, painting, graphic design classes; and I'm also a bookworm. The lecture on monday challenged me to examin…
      - 30 Mar 11, 12:28am -

    Jesse Batres

    • “The Mad Prophet of the Airwaves”
      Plato considered art to be a destructive enchantment (sensual and aesthetic enchantment) that poses a danger to the rational state. The issue stems from the ability of art to stimulate illusory ideas in the viewer. The power of words seem to be a…
      - 10 Apr 11, 1:23am -
    • Network, Howard Beale
      Network, Howard Beale
      - 9 Apr 11, 12:12pm -
    • I Dream of a Flag
      One of the issues that came up in today’s discussion was levels of appreciation and how the first and most basic seems to be on the same level of that of the sparrow that is fooled by the cherries on an oil painting. If within the discussion of Pla…
      - 30 Mar 11, 7:02pm -
    • Jasper Johns Flag
      Jasper Johns Flag
      - 30 Mar 11, 6:29pm -
    • Basquiat & the Erased de Kooning
      With the discussion of mimesis one thinks about Duchamp and how in his most quintessential move he not only broke the traditional bond between the artist’s labour and the merit of the work but also tampered with out expectations and one’s persona…
      - 30 Mar 11, 2:47am -

    Tiffany Smith

    • Ian Kiaer
      One of my jobs is analyzing art and leading exhibition tours at the Hammer Museum. The Hammer’s current exhibition All of This and Nothing features seven artists from Los Angeles and seven international artists whose collective works include paint…
      - 2 Apr 11, 2:57pm -
    • hello class
      Although I missed the first day of class :O I have heard of mimesis. This blog will deal mostly with an analysis of contemporary art. All comments are appreciated. If anyone is interested, the link posted below is a good … Continue reading →
      - 30 Mar 11, 11:25am -

    Michael Bromberg

    • Music and emotion
      So, since class last Monday I've been wanting to write this post. For  during that class, at one point in discussion the topic of how music can express certain emotions came up, which is very interesting to me. I've always wondered why it is that so…
      - 17 Apr 11, 1:32pm -
    • Mimesis and Art
      Hello,My name is Michael Bromberg and I am a fourth year philosophy major. I love art in all respects, but especially film, tv, and music videos.Though my understanding of mimesis is not quite as robust as I would like, I feel that as a whole it dire…
      - 30 Mar 11, 12:27pm -

    Justine Refino

    • Mimesis Experiences
      Like most, the majority of mimesis experiences I have revolve around the television. I often find myself at the edge of my seat in action films, rooting for the underdog in movies like Rudy, tensing up with suspenseful or scary scenes, and on the…
      - 30 Mar 11, 1:13pm -

    Khakop Sogoyan

      Matthew Knauff

      • Victoria's Project Idea
        Victoria had a great idea for her final project.  It involves the fourth topic, about coordination on mimetic content.  Her idea is: artists coordinate their work to create mimetic content on which viewers coordinate.  There are two sense of “co…
        - 18 May 11, 5:12pm -
      • Athletic Events, Beauty, Mimesis

        - 27 Apr 11, 7:41am -
      • Misreading
        This post is long overdue.  I want to bring up a thought that may relate to Aristotle’s contention that pleasure attaches to inferences on mimetic forms (that’s rough) and Halliwell’s (similar) idea that a reader who is familiar with a describ…
        - 27 Apr 11, 7:05am -
      • Art + Duration
        Aristotle writes of drama in the Poetics: “the greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous” (VII).Most films these days fall somewhere in the ninety to one hundred fifty m…
        - 9 Apr 11, 5:56pm -
      • Pleasure in Not Knowing
        I spoke today in class about obscurity and opaqueness.  For the former I talked about McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, for the latter, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps.”  After some thought, it occurred to me that there’s nothing too great about obsc…
        - 7 Apr 11, 12:28am -
      • Introduction
        Hi everyone.  My name’s Matt.  I’m a first-year graduate student in the philosophy department.The arts I’m most interested in are prose fiction, improv/standup comedy, music, film, painting, sculpture, and installation art.My initial reacti…
        - 31 Mar 11, 3:36pm -

      Rachel Harris

      • Into:
        Hi my name is Rachel Harris, I am very new to blogging.......
        - 31 Mar 11, 8:09pm -

      Victoria Imtanes

      Regina Taliento

      • Introduction
        Over the last several years I have started to examine what it is that makes me like a particular work of art and not another.  I thought it might have to do with the emotions I experience when I am exposed to a particular work of art, as well as its…
        - 2 Apr 11, 11:09am -

      David Chun

      • Social Media Mimesis
        The following is a post from my personal blog published on June 14, 2011.  I thought I’d share it with some additional thoughts on the effect social media has on our behavior and what Google+ is adding to the equation.… Read the rest
        - 13 Jul 11, 1:30pm -
      • A story within a Story
        A man had left a Czech village to seek his fortune.  Twenty-five years later, and now rich, he had returned with a wife and a child.  His mother was running a hotel with his sister in the village where he’d … Read the rest
        - 24 Jun 11, 12:45am -
      • Criticism as Narrative
        There is quite a bit of confusion in the language used to express ideas. Whether the ideas are confused or the language we use is insufficient to make distinct the subtleties of our ideas I am unsure. But as I … Read the rest
        - 20 Jun 11, 5:29pm -
      • Art
        The title of this essay is an attempt to assess an account of art, which has taken on varying forms from ancient times to the present.  Art, being the most general and basic of terms, is used here to try … Read the rest
        - 16 Jun 11, 9:01pm -
      • The Graduate
        After going to bed early last night out of the despondent prospect of what life after college is meant to be, I woke up and watched The Graduate.  Dustin Hoffman stars as Benjamin Braddock, a recent graduate who returns … Read the rest
        - 17 May 11, 7:56am -
      • Aristotelian Mimesis
        Before we move on to modern conceptions of mimesis, I wanted to give Plato more credit for his works with some thoughtful commentary.  I will also speak on how I found Aristotle’s deconstruction of the mimetic experience to be … Read the rest
        - 13 Apr 11, 2:57am -
      • Mimetic Interpretation
        In Book V of , Nietzsche suggests that consciousness developed as a means to adapt to an environment where, the ability to communicate and express our neediness gave us a strategic advantage to survive. He believed consciousness to be the … Read th…
        - 6 Apr 11, 2:25am -
      • Platonic Mimesis
        I found Plato’s attack on mimesis to be an ad hoc attempt to discredit Aristophanes’ depiction of Socrates in .  My evidence is weak, actually I don’t have much, other than “Clouds” preceding “The Republic” based on evidence in “The…
        - 31 Mar 11, 9:05pm -
      • Digital Mimesis
        I’m curious to explore the concept of mimesis within the context of digital art.  I recently, and unsuccessfully, made the attempt to crash a course in the DMA department with the hope of doing just that.  Although there was no … Read the rest
        - 31 Mar 11, 7:16pm -

      Tal Memran

      • Save Water... Drink Wine!
        To be continued...
        - 8 May 11, 4:50am -
      • Someone Like you- ADELE
        Love this song! So relaxing just need some wine!
        - 8 May 11, 4:49am -
      • Cardio Barre
        I've been trying to get back in shape. It's literally been 5 years since I've been to the gym. So I decided to try "Cardio Barre" not even knowing what it was. I started out going to an advanced class (Big mistake!), I have no idea what I was thinkin…
        - 8 May 11, 4:46am -
      • How Romantic........NOT!
        I finally got the photos back from my wedding photographer. She shot some pictures of my and my fiance in the poppy flower fields in Lancaster a couple of weeks ago. Well the photos looked completely different from what was really going on that day.…
        - 8 May 11, 4:46am -
      • THOR: God of Thunder
        Me and my hubby (to be) decided to go check out the movies. We heard good reviews about THOR so we decided to go watch it, and it was totally worth it! I absolutely loved it, and its been a while since I've seen a good movie so I was very happy and h…
        - 8 May 11, 4:45am -
      • Poppy Festival
        I went to the poppy festival in Lancaster. As I walked through the entrance I couldn't help but notice an incredible sand sculpture. I thought it was amazing and almost looked like a real lion. It made me think of the wilderness and created a artisti…
        - 8 May 11, 4:44am -
      • FASHION
        I have noticed that that fashion is in fact mimetic in every way. It also repeats itself. Trends from the 70’s and 80’s are coming back in style and mimicking the past. Society is influenced by fads around them and trends spread through this. I…
        - 17 Apr 11, 9:14pm -
      • I N T R O
        Hi Everyone, my name is Tali and I am a junior transfer student from Moorpark College. I am a Philosophy major with a minor in Political Science and plan on going to law school after I graduate next June. I believe each and every one of us has an ar…
        - 1 Apr 11, 11:01pm -

      Boris Bindman

      • Untitled
         It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."-Voltaire
        - 23 Jun 11, 1:40pm -
      • Video Games and the Mimesis of Violence: The Case of Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association
        Since time immemorial and particularly upon the advice of our Platonic forefathers, we have been, so to speak, ‘banishing the poets from our cities’ whilst remaining vigilant against the presupposed harm from perceived unethical or base works of…
        - 23 Jun 11, 1:39pm -
      • Paper topic: mimesis of violence and Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association
        Given my interest in law and anticipation of pursuing it as a career after UCLA, I am interested in writing my paper on mimesis in law--particularly a case on the United States Supreme Courts' docket. The as yet to be decided case (oral arguments and…
        - 18 May 11, 10:03pm -
      • mimesis in law --violence/obscenity
        Before the U.S. Supreme Court is the matter of violence in video games, examined in the case of Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Assoc.. The case is a first amendment case in which the state of California's exercise of its police powers…
        - 8 May 11, 4:41pm -
      • Mimetic Art as Mental Economy?
        We don't really hesitate to say that art serves a human cognitive need, for why else would we be compelled to produce it? But exactly what need? Could we entertain the idea that it might serve as a type of mental economy? I don't necessarily maintain…
        - 18 Apr 11, 12:34am -
      • Enter The Void
        Could we speak of a mimetic work of art par excellence? Wouldn't it be one in which we don't simply observe a works "imitation of the real world" through placing ourselves in its micro-universe/ontology--remaining a viewer of its aspect however--but…
        - 6 Apr 11, 12:54pm -
      • Mimesis and Platonic Aesthetics: Theatricality and Duplicity
         It would be in Rousseau that we find an elaboration of the Platonic critique of the theater and "actors." In a lesser known work of his, A Letter to D'Alembert, Rousseau takes up a common thread in his work: civilization's corruption of the fundame…
        - 3 Apr 11, 2:29pm -

      Corine Michalani

      • Mimesis
        Many of my mimetic experiences happens when I can relate emotionally to something, such as a character in a movie who gets hurt. My key word that I use to associate mimesis with is something like imitation. It can also be described representation or…
        - 3 Apr 11, 1:23pm -

      Martha Zivari

      • When my classmate and I met during class to discuss our paper
        When my classmate and I met during class to discuss our paper ideas she initially felt that she would be answering question #3. Later as we discussed some of her ideas and asked professor Cumming if she was on the right path, it became clear that th…
        - 22 May 11, 5:41pm -
      • During last week’s lecture, professor Cumming mentioned that
        During last week’s lecture, professor Cumming mentioned that Aristotle notes that one can glean ethical qualities from music however you can’t glean any particular sequence of events/actions unless accompanied by words. The reason for this is th…
        - 16 Apr 11, 8:26pm -
      • Dear Classmates,<br>My name is Martha Zivari, I am what some call,
        Dear Classmates,My name is Martha Zivari, I am what some call, a “super senior” majoring in Philosophy. I look forward to reading your blogs and sharing some of my experiences while exploring the concept of mimesis. I enjoy art in all its vario…
        - 3 Apr 11, 2:01pm -

      Julianne Loveland

      • Unconscious mimesis?
        Earlier tonight something crossed my mind and started to make me wonder if mimesis had the ability to be both intentional and unintentional. In certain situations it appears that some people purposely imitate things while in other situations people c…
        - 4 Apr 11, 1:11am -
      • The random art history girl.
        Hi. My name is Julianne and I am a senior Art History major, so everything I know about mimesis is in relation to art, and really only specifically Surrealism.Philosophy is not usually my friend, but I will try anyway and hopefully this exploration…
        - 3 Apr 11, 8:57pm -

      Daniel Tsui

      • Helpful or Harmful?
        I found an inspiring quote from Walton's "Mimesis as Make-Believe," it says, "Fred finds himself, in an idle moment, alone with his thoughts. Feeling unsuccessful and unappreciated, he embarks on a daydream in which he is rich and famous. He calls up…
        - 13 Apr 11, 4:05pm -
      • Introduction
        Hello everyone, my name is Danny. I am Senior Philosophy Major. I am going to record my mimetic explorations on this blog during the quarter. Please feel free to comment or criticize. I will be very appreciated to read them.I find myself particularly…
        - 4 Apr 11, 12:33pm -

      Jose Guzman

      • Final Project: Question 3
        Last class, on Wednesday, I was paired with Omar Khalid. He seems to be interested in that of storytelling; specifically, in that of movies. That is, because he’s interested in why and how it is that movies illicit sympathy; specifically, in an Ari…
        - 21 May 11, 1:34pm -
      • On Active and Passive Audiences
        Last week, in Wednesday’s class, we discussed the process of inferring; and we were left to believe that in some manner or another, indirect fictional truths are superior to direct fictional truths. The idea being that it is more entertaining for a…
        - 3 May 11, 12:57am -
      • Fictional Truths as a Set of Possibilities* (Part I)
        I would like to elaborate on a comment I made in class today. Namely, that fictional truths can be thought of as a set of points. That is, because I took the comment to be a little misleading. Also, I am not entirely sure my idea holds any real merit…
        - 27 Apr 11, 10:52pm -
      • Tangled
        Last night I watched Tangled. If you haven’t heard of it, it is an animated film that somewhat seems to be derived from the story of Rapunzel. Overall, though a little too cheesy at times, for my taste, I found the film to be decent. What kept me s…
        - 10 Apr 11, 6:14pm -
      • Logicomix
        I recently finished reading a graphic novel titled Logicomix. If you haven’t heard of it, I suggest that you check it out ASAP. It is an incredibly interesting read about Bertrand Russell and his attempt to prove the foundations of mathematics. Alt…
        - 10 Apr 11, 4:39pm -
      • Introduction
        My name is Jose Guzman. I’m a third-year student of philosophy at UCLA. I play drums and enjoy many genres of music. I’m incredibly interested in our ability (or lack there of) to judge art and music from an objective stand point. That is, becaus…
        - 4 Apr 11, 1:59pm -

      Kevin Moultrie

      Lakshmanman Sivasundaram

      • Cory's Paper: Music Isn't Mimesis
        Cory is going to write a paper on how music is not a form of mimetic art. He argues that other forms of representational art are props that represent something. Meanwhile, music is not a representation of anything. While it is true music generates em…
        - 18 May 11, 5:59pm -
      • Thoughts on the Four Questions: An Addition to Shkurkin's Post
        If anyone didn't notice Shkurkin has a pretty good post about what the authors have said about the first three questions. Just want to add to that by adding my thoughts about question 4Audience coordinate imaginatively with the author/ each other o…
        - 13 May 11, 2:21pm -
      • The Collective Mimetic Experience
        In class today we briefly talked about how watching a movie with someone else is a different experience from watching alone. I’d like to add that there is a bigger difference when watching a movie at home than when at a movie theatre. In the theatr…
        - 4 May 11, 10:50pm -
      • Walton and Funny Games
        Walton brings up an interesting discussion in this week’s reading about whether or not an audience will enjoy a movie that supports morally questionable themes. For example, is it appropriate to enjoy a movie that claims slavery is just? Walton bri…
        - 25 Apr 11, 9:32pm -
      • Aristotle and Question 3
        Unlike Plato, I don’t think Aristotle believes that mimetic works corrupt the audience. In his discussion of the elements of good mimetic art, he talks extensively about factors required to incite an emotional response from the audience. However, u…
        - 18 Apr 11, 8:38pm -
      • The Magic of Mystery
        There was an extensive debate in class today about what fear is and how it relates to mimesis. Particularly interesting was the multiple interpretations taken on what Aristotle says about this topic. In Book 13, he mentions that “pity is occasioned…
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      • Aristotle's Poetics
        An interesting thing I realized after reading Poetics is that very few modern movies are classical tragedies. According to Aristotle, the plot of a tragedy generally involves a single character that starts off having good fortune, but ultimately is r…
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      • Museum Exhibits: A mimetic form of art?
        Earlier in class we discussed how certain buildings could be mimetic works of art. These buildings can be considered mimetic if they are architecturally exceptional, such as the Disney Concert Hall. This criterion seems to sufficiently distinguish th…
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      • Introduction
        Hi my name is Lakshmanan, but I usually go by Lucky. I’m a senior Neuroscience major and Philosophy minor. From the first week of classes I can tell that the notion of mimesis is a very complex topic that has wide implications. Throughout my posts…
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        Omar Khalid

        • Intro - Mimesis
          My name is Omar Khalid. I’m a senior at UCLA, and this is my Mimesis blog for Philosophy 161: Philosophy of Aesthetics. In this class we will be exploring what mimesis is, and the different forms of mimetic art.I’m not exactly sure what mimesi…
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          Shalev Netanel

          • Eli’s Abstract
            I’ve injected a few comments and added some more suggestions at the end. Eli plans to investigate mimesis in music within the context of questions I and IV. He posits two questions that he will track throughout the essay: “Does live music encour…
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          • Progress; Man’s single most greatest invention, yet
            This past Saturday I photographed a dance performance at Royce (UCLA Live). According to the program, the piece “explores themes of power, free will and survival instinct through the story of a group of servants trapped in the basement of their ab…
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          • Untitled
            Sup 161. I’m Shalev. I guess I’m pretty late on this. I missed the last two lectures and I was going to wait untill after next class to write something but I’ve been reflecting on my impression from first lecture and the readings an…
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            Cory Primm

            • First Aesthetics Class, First Blog
              So I was sitting in aesthetics class today when my professor highly recommended everyone present should have a blog to mark their thoughts on the subject matter of the class. This post is the direct result of that event. It's a philosophy class, by t…
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