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The Dynamic Autonomous Artwork

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A strong motivation behind Gadamer building his theory of aesthetics was his desire to recover the autonomy of the artwork, as he felt that art was being considered more and more a purely subjective experience unless propped up by some form of transcendentalism. In this chapter, I try to extend Gadamer’s views on autonomy by questioning his views on limited agency, exploring how this might be improved by taking an enactivist standpoint. In an enactivist standpoint, our encounters hold within themselves an uneasy relationship between individual self-generation and intersubjective dynamics, which relates well to the difficult relations involved in aesthetics that allow the negotiated subjective interpretation of an autonomous artwork.

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  • Enactivism
  • Autonomous artwork
  • Autopoiesis
  • Sense-making

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Christensen, J. (2018). The Dynamic Autonomous Artwork. In: Sound and the Aesthetics of Play. Palgrave Studies in Sound. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66899-4_3

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