What Art Does: Using Philosophy of Technology to Talk about Art - Hardcover
What Art Does: Using Philosophy of Technology to Talk about Art - Hardcover
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by Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow (Author)
The question of what and how artworks mean things is conventionally satisfied by appealing to literature from either philosophy of art or philosophy of language. This book offers an alternative by positioning art as a type of meaning-making tool whose function can only be understood through the application of the philosophy of technology.
Author Biography
Ryan Wittingslow is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Groningen, a Humboldt research fellow at TU Darmstadt, and a research affiliate in Media Studies at the University of Sydney. Most of his research sits at the meeting ground between aesthetics, philosophy of design, philosophy of technology, and political philosophy.
