ARCH-871D Cosmoaesthetics
3 Credits
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ARCH-871D-01
Monday
10:00 am â 12:50 pm
Higgins Hall North, 304
What if aesthetics is of the cosmos? This course expands the horizon of aesthetics (both the art of life and the life of art) beyond anthropocentric givens and canonical dead ends, paving an alternative path in alliance with a heterodox lineage of overlooked philosophers (Heraclitus, Laozi, Ibn Arabi, Spinoza, Whitehead), stargazing artists (Virginia Woolf, Edgard Varese, Francis Bacon, Andrei Tarkovsky, Pina Bausch, David Foster Wallace), and misconstrued architects and sci-fi worldbuilders (Neanderthal constructors, Laszlo Moholy Nagy, Philip K. Dick, Cedric Price, Vogelkop bowerbirds).