Edward Colless Transdisciplinary workshop paper

Edward Colless paper for the  Leonardo Education and Art Forum Transdisciplinary workshops paper.

TRANSDISCIPLINARY AESTHETICS: AN OCCULTATION AND OCCULTISM

1. ON THE INTER…

“Transdisciplinary aesthetics” sounds like a hard term to justify. What does else does it offer (other than novelty) that an “interdisciplinary aesthetics” would not already provide? Indeed, is either adjective needed at all? “Aesthetics” is after all a specific department of the professional discipline of philosophy. It has its specialized skills, and its procedures of academic validation. Aestheticians who try their hand at art are often treated as amateurs, since they lack what is called “a practice”, or professional history of working in art.

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