Arts and pragmatism:

April 3, 2023
La Maison Francaise, NYU

La Maison Française, New York University,
New York 10003
United States

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  • Universite Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne

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Université paris 1

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We have noticed it during the two previous

symposia of our program: the pragmatist philosophy

and in particular Dewey defends the idea that

aesthetics must not only be considered as the

search for truths about art and its creations but also

as what concerns the experience of the persons

with an artwork (a sensitive and active experience).

The reception would thus be the dynamic

experience of an incarnated observer, acting,

feeling in his senses and his affects what is the work

and what it makes him feel.

The political stake of the pragmatist aesthetics is

to make sure that the strong aesthetic experiences

remain open and accessible to the largest

public and become even a «matter of ordinary

conversation». It is then a matter of thinking about

shared experience as a transmission of values, an

important phenomenon for the moral, political,

“educational” reflection of adults» (Cavell 1979, 1981,

Shusterman, Laugier 2019, 2023, Gerrits 2020). Thus,

this question of pragmatism addresses societal

issues that concern all audiences, not just from a

broadcast/transmission perspective. By focusing on

experience and agency, this way of approaching

pragmatism involves the cultural audience in a

broad way to the point where it engages mediums

such as television and in general digital cultures.

The concept of Post-Creation, insofar as it plays

a form of exteriority to an original Creation, has

all its place in a world where the strong aesthetic

experiences remain open and accessible to a wider

public. It is a question of placing the creation beyond

what is biased, in the heart of a form of Third State

of the artistic act in charge of a heuristic and critical

potential, towards a form extracted from the zone

of influence of the world of the art as such. The

idea of Post-Creation tends towards the universal

that would be the fact of conceiving the creation

beyond any not institutionalized academism. We

will see how a possible emulation between the

ordinary aesthetic and the shared experience of

the Post-Creation is articulated and played, where

the experience of the creation produces knowledge

and transforms what is out of the specific field

of perception of the art in so many new acting

and reflexive spaces. In that, the influence of the

artistic creation on whole sections of the society,

domains of perception until now inaccessible,

becomes a stake of opening which results from the

transformation of a form of ordinary aesthetics in a

Post-Creation freed from the aesthetic channels of

the contemporary art.

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