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  • Social Work: Politics, Police, and the Law in Art, Part 4

    Social Work: Politics, Police, and the Law in Art, Part 4

    by Matthew David Rana

    While law makes claims to the objectivity and permanence of truth, namely that it can be arrived at or verified through a certain set of acceptable procedures and forms of speech, comedy makes a different set of claims in which truth is embodied, impermanent, and unstable.

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  • Re: Taste

    Re: Taste

    by Elyse Mallouk

    In everyday experience, millions of times a day, the imagination is subordinated to the understanding, as we classify things we perceive, and respond to them accordingly. In an aesthetic experience, these faculties are in “free play”: the imagination is not in service of cognition, and the mind is not overwhelmed by perception.

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