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Art, Artificial, Artifice... Hubris?

Submitted by ED on Fri, 12/18/2009 - 12:56pm
Is there any room for magic in biology?
Yes, in the sense that biology is never a static thing, but a constant reevaluation of things, and often the reevaluation can blow people away. No, in the sense that magic requires suspense of belief, a lack of knowing, and biology is the ongoing attempt to know.
This question has followed me for a long time.
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This Is Not a Performance: Critique of a ?Genre? (final performance)

Submitted by One Student on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 1:40pm
Stage directions: I drag my chair to the front of the room, out of the horse-shoe of chairs in which the rest of the class is seated. A few minutes are spent in deciding whether to turn the projector off or if I should drag my chair to the side. Shortly, the projector is turned off. I stand on the chair.

 

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life and art on the same side of the mirror

Submitted by One Student on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 7:12pm

I have felt very grudging toward usages of 'genre' which expand the word beyond a strictly literary term. Of course humans categorize all aspects of their existence, and there's no need to take terms from one categoried area and apply it to another. That increases the sloppiness of categorization, by using an unneeded metaphor. 

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