May
29th
Fri
29th
2009
what we usually mean by criticism is something that occurs in natural, spoken language & so, that formal criticism is divorced from the creative process. however, criticism is occurring repeatedly in every creative process - within the (sometimes unspeakable) languages of that creative domain - and, the creative & analytic (critical) capacities are always somewhat divorced, even when in the same domain, so that this back-and-forth becomes a translational process which necessitates information loss - and - so, flipping between say - a creative act in music being analyzed with traditional linguistic criticism, there’s a huge amount of information loss there - it’s a hierarchy of nested feedback loops. what we’re interested in is if those two unique processes are sharing the same cognitive, neural representations - and i think they are. to me, it’s ultimately semantic, like the attention/intention distinction.
— gaurav, last night with beers
