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i can't do these questions right under timed condition but always get them right in blind review...
Great. I thought I was at the end of it but noooo
I'm overthinking this.
From my personal experience of reading so many freaking art critiques, they have a lot of phrases to connote "the existence/the being" of something - airy words. "Ontology", the study of "being", almost always accompanies with the Western notions. A lot of art debates stem from how Western ideas proliferate and unfortunately overshadow the actual histories of art (colonial gaze, Eurocentrism, "modern" art, male gaze, society of spectacle, capitalism, etc.). And that nothing exists in a vacuum. Mediums/tools will always have a meaning even if the artist intended or not. For example, in this video, Weiner and Ginsburg are arguing over the use of a camera and its significance. Here, the camera is being associated with machinery which tadah - a Western notion! This is definitely generalization but the popular discourses of art can be boiled down to Western values vs. non-Western notions.
What did I just read?
Thank you for this breakdown. I was tripped up with the last sentence as well. It was indeed PEOPLE WITHOUT INSOMNIA which explains C alot.
This is extremely helpful for Must Be True LR. I struggle with MBT because I flew through these but I now have to go back because MBT heavily relies on this concept. It also helps you with Sufficient Assumption and Necessary Assumption by helping you spot the missing gap right away.