As part of the CDG book group, we read Homo Aestheticus, Where Art Comes From and Why. To aid group discussion, I thought it might be nice to have a poster table of contents to remind the group of the various parts of the book.
The group made minor use of this aid. Everyone looked at it at the beginning when we didn't know what to start out with, and individuals consulted it one or two times when trying to remember something specific, but otherwise the conversation stayed mostly verbal.
There were a few times the discussion turned to a particular passage, and I could imagine in those cases a projected instance of that passage (from the speaker's copy of the book) appearing large somewhere in the space so everyone could look at it and each other, instead of just down into their private copies of the book.
Nagle and Toby and Vi and Emily and Kat also experimented with laying out a couple chapters spatially:
Chapter 6 was on the table and chapter 5 snaked along the floor. I think the main thing wasn't the spatiality of the pages necessarily, but the spatialization of the annotations and highlights (this was Nagle's vision, I think). Vi remarked that it was really fun to make and read highlights and annotations in a group setting, although as a group didn't really use them (though it may have primed us to begin the discussion). Something about the act of reading textual passages and interacting with people didn't seem to quite make sense, but we'll do more experiments.
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From: Vi Hart
Date: Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [cdgSF] homo aestheticus book group.
To: Michael Nagle
Cc: "****************" , Cathleen Galas
From: Vi Hart
Date: Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [cdgSF] homo aestheticus book group.
To: Michael Nagle
Cc: "****************" , Cathleen Galas
I put it on the calendar. And definitely yes! Looking forward :D
Vi
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Michael Nagle wrote:
To confirm and make sure this fact got out of my head and a few idle conversations, we're planning on talking about _Homo Aestheticus_ on June 4th at CDG. I'll say 2 pm as when we'll start.--I'll keep further emails about this to the people who directly expressed interest. There are also 4 copies of HA floating around the office now.~NOn Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Michael Nagle wrote:Hi all --After the concert at Alan's house last weekend, Kat and I started talking about how it is that art composed hundreds of years ago can still affect us as human animals powerfully. (It affected me powerfully.)I was reminded of a book I'd heard about -- "Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why" [1] -- and as it also seemed to tie into work interests, we thought we'd get a copy and read it.I thought I'd see if others would be interested in joining us in reading this. If people have interest in this book, or have other books they'd be into reading as a group, let me know. (!)-N
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