#instrumentalism

[philosophybits]

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

[thirdity]

Machines produce only machines. The texts, images, films, speech and programmes which come out of the computer are machine products, and they bear the marks of such products: they are artificially padded-out, face-lifted by the machine; the films are stuffed with special effects, the texts full of longueurs and repetitions due to the machine's malicious will to function at all costs (that is its passion), and to the operator's fascination with this limitless possibility of functioning.

Jean Baudrillard, Screened Out

[witchsshrew]

my header. for your consideration.

[notsoaverageviiya]

Hiya! So this is a survey for anyone familiar with Instrumental performance of any kind! My name is Sarah Hubauer and I am 20 years old. Currently I am studying General Performance at a duel College and Non-Profit Organization called The Young Americans College of Performing Arts, and I am conducting an independent study on General Instrumentalism and Performance. One way that this school is unique in that it sends its students out on outreach tours across the globe to work with Childrenand teach them about Music and Performing. It includes Acting, Dance, and Singing as its three main performing emphasises. However we do utilize instrumentalists in this group in a unique way. One of which you see occasionally on TV in movies, but you do not read about in books, or even have the option of going to school for. For now, lets call this Show Instrumentalism. This survey is entirely optional questions including any personal information you may or may not want to share with me. It explains it in more detail in the survey and provides a couple examples. Thanks so so much and please share!

[thewastedalpaca-blog]

[astranemus]

Oikophilia [love of home] originates in our need for nurture and safety, but it spreads out across our surroundings in less self-serving ways. It tells us to love and not to use, to respect and not to exploit. It invites us to look on things in our ‘homescape’ as we look on persons, not as means only, but as ends in themselves. Hence its most important manifestations outside the immediate sphere of family affection are the love of beauty and respect for the sacred. Both of those states of mind involve the recognition of intrinsic, as opposed to instrumental values: and intrinsic values are the firmest brakes on appetite that we have. What is growth, as advocated by economists and politicians, but the pursuit of instrumental values—the constant amplification of consumption, production and the appetites that require them? Oikophilia involves a refusal to surrender objects to their use. It comprehends all the ways in which things around us are regarded as intrinsically meaningful and irreplaceable.

Roger Scruton, Settling Down and Marking Time

[craftercool]

Malcolm In The Middle Theme (Boss Of Me) - They Might Be Giants - Instrumentalism Cover