Aesthetics Midterm

What is aesthetics?

A branch of philosophy

Where are neanderthals from?

Europe

Where are Homoerectus from?

Asia

Where are homosapians from?

Africa

What are the two theories how homosapiens outlived the others?

interbreeding & replacement theory

What are the pillars of success of language?

Gossip, supple, and fiction

What brought us to the top of the food chain?

Language

What are the biological necessities of humans?

Language & Sociability

What is semiotics?

study of signs and their interpretation

What are the three aspects of semiosis?

representamen, interpretant, and object

what is the representamen?

the sign vehicle/how its given

what is the object?

what the sign refers to or the meaning

what is the interpretant?

the meaning the interpretant recieves

What are the types of signs?

Icon, index, & symbol

What is an icon?

a sign by resemblance, a raw fact (picture, seeing something yourself)

what is an index?

a sign by cause-effect (shadow, reflection)

What is a symbol?

a sign by law, a code (pointing, street signs)

What are the Branches of Semiotic Science?

pure grammar, logic proper, and pure rhetoric

What is animism?

the belief that every plant, animal, etc., have a conscious & can communicate

what are the extensions of man?

tools & media

what were the first traces of homosapiens?

burials

What is a pictorial turn?

a trope/thought that reappears multiple times (unique to the time and associated with current developments and knowledge

what is a clone

duplicate to a living organism or donor organism of the entire species (ex: fossils)

what is a metapicture?

an image inside of another image

what are the four characteristics of language?

social, homogeneous, separate, and concrete

what are the four fundamental concepts of iconology?

the pictorial turn, image/picture distinction, metapictures, and biopictures

what is iconology?

the study of visual imagery and its symbolism and interpretation

what is the family tree of images?

graphic, optical, persepctical, mental, and verbal

what is a fetish?

believed to hold power/things we give value to

what is an idol?

god-like images, figures, etc; visual similarity

what is a totem?

represents a group, clan, or belief system