poiesis

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As artists, we still want to reserve that old Romantic right to conduct an act of poiesis - rather than be always lost in the cybernetic coils of autopoiesis.

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  • At the same time, the true Ligetian poiesis emerges from the experiences of musical history from —  signandsight.com
  • A masterpiece is, on the one hand, an act of hubris, a work of poiesis that challenges the assumed perfection of God's universe. —  theatre notes
  • As artists, we still want to reserve that old Romantic right to conduct an act of poiesis - rather than be always lost in the cybernetic coils of autopoiesis. —  The Play Ethic
  • We might add that our précis or comment on a story's content is not a surrogate for political action or advocacy; it is meant only as a prod for the reader to discover for himself the story's artistic merit and insight: all the writer's energy of imagination was poured into its poiesis in order that an insight might be given some recoverable form, and we but pay our respect to him when we regard what he has accomplished as an artist rather than as a social scientist or advocate of some political agenda. —  The Spy in the Sandwich Eats the Sun
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wfs whorf wikis winter word-color writing x-chromosome x-linked CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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