Lectures on Formal Analysis by M Twist
Podcast by M Twist
Episodes
June 18, 2016 • 121 mins
Led by M Twist, the class attempts rhetorical analysies of the Avenue H subway stop in Brooklyn and the new Hudson Yards station in Manhattan.
Introduction features a discussion of writing a rhetorical analysis paper.
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June 18, 2016 • 94 mins
Led by M Twist, the class attempts a rhetorical analysis of The New Museum in New York City.
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June 7, 2016 • 109 mins
Led by M Twist, the class attempts a rhetorical analysis of the Vignelli New York City subway map.
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May 26, 2016 • 126 mins
Led by M Twist, the class attempts a rhetorical analysis of the (new) Whitney Museum of American Art.
Introduction features a short lecture on expression theory.
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May 26, 2016 • 136 mins
Led by M Twist, the class attempts a formal analysis of Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach".
Introduction features a discussion of a method of writing a paper that is conducive to thinking in a formally analytic way.
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M Twist explains how the expression theory of art is coherent with this theory of formal analysis through the ideas of philosopher R. G. Collingwood.
Lecture delivered on May 2nd, 2014.
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May 21, 2016 • 32 mins
We want to call attention to the different kinds of methods that are cognates to these methods:
There is a method called dialectic. There is always in dialectic an abstract general principle in virtue of which a thing is intelligible.
There is an analytic method. There is always an underlying physical principle in virtue of which the thing is intelligible. By underlying I mean it’s actually the cause of the thing that you see, b...
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May 20, 2016 • 55 mins
M Twist's Graduation Speech on The Virtues
Delivered May 12th, 2016
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May 15, 2016 • 30 mins
"How do you know?" is one of the objections to a class in formal analysis. But, intention, like every other term that we’ve been dealing with is a philosophical term and it has a lot of different possible meanings. The question is, what does it mean in any given philosophical orientation. Again, words aren’t things that have one meaning, they have as many meanings as they can take on in the course of a discourse.
Intention in the...
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May 14, 2016 • 61 mins
The final lecture of the terminal Formal Analysis course: the philosophical upbringing, peak, and demise of the Scholar's Program and the resulting Formal Analysis course.
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May 14, 2016 • 17 mins
The meaning of criticism varies from one view of the arts to another.
M Twist discuss moral criticism, technical criticism, reviewing and criticism as a learning.
Lecture delivered on March 21st, 2014.
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March 29, 2016 • 37 mins
Lecture 4:
The idea underlying Formal Analysis is not an idea you hear in any other kind of philosophical approach to the arts.
Just to remind you:
We were talking that art is an imitation of nature. We came up with the idea that if art is an imitation of changeless models then beauty is truth. If art is a cause of effects, that is to say, an imitation of natural causes, then the effect you want to bring about is pleasure, then ...
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March 27, 2016 • 31 mins
Lecture 3:
An examination of the idea that art imitates nature.
Lecture delivered on February 21st, 2014.
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February 23, 2016 • 27 mins
Lecture 2:
We are taking the position that works of art are self-intelligible wholes. Now, we are contrasting that position to other positions taken by people who believe the intelligibility of the work lies in the historical epoch, or people who regard the work as a cause of effects and look for intelligibility in the causes and people who make subjective interpretations.
Lecture delivered on February 14th, 2014.
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February 12, 2016 • 28 mins
Lectures on Formal Analysis by M Twist
Lecture 1:
The position taken is that artworks are self-intelligible wholes in contrast to other possible philosophical positions, namely context understood as a historical epoch, as an immediate antecedent events(immediate cause) and as a subjective experience of the reader.
Lecture delivered on February 7th, 2014.
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