O.G. Rose | 11. On Description by O.G. Rose @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Whether through painting, writing, speaking, etc., description is always an act of thinking of perception or itself, and hence description is inseparable from the first-person: psychology, philosophy, phenomenology, self-deception, and all the other workings of the human mind (that humans themselves often hardly understand). Description always reflects thinking to some degree, even though countless artists might try to avoid incorporating human phenomenology into their work. Failing to grasp that description reflects thinking (that it is never “pure perception,” to allude to “On Thinking and Perceiving” by O.G. Rose), we prove less likely to avoid describing reality in a manner that doesn’t unintentionally contribute to Pluralistic tribalism, atomization, and the world being broken into ideological bubbles that lose contact with the earth. Basically, subjectivity is unavoidable, and the less we embrace this reality, the more likely we are to miss reality in our efforts to describe it...
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Whether through painting, writing, speaking, etc., description is always an act of thinking of perception or itself, and hence description is inseparable from the first-person: psychology, philosophy, phenomenology, self-deception, and all the other workings of the human mind (that humans themselves often hardly understand). Description always reflects thinking to some degree, even though countless artists might try to avoid incorporating human phenomenology into their work. Failing to grasp that description reflects thinking (that it is never “pure perception,” to allude to “On Thinking and Perceiving” by O.G. Rose), we prove less likely to avoid describing reality in a manner that doesn’t unintentionally contribute to Pluralistic tribalism, atomization, and the world being broken into ideological bubbles that lose contact with the earth. Basically, subjectivity is unavoidable, and the less we embrace this reality, the more likely we are to miss reality in our efforts to describe it...
For the full paper:
medium.com/@o-g-rose-writing/on-description-e834a54a301c
Substack:
ogrose.substack.com/p/on-description
For more by O.G. Rose:
ogrose.com
