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The Logic of Disorder: A Dynamic View of Cognitive Aesthetics

Schartman, Samantha
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1270180685

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2010, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Cognitive Linguistics.
In observing various patterns of organization I have come to a similar conclusion as that of seminal theorist and psychologist Rudolf Arnheim; that there is a neg-entropic drive towards order as exemplified by the presence of phenomena such as societies, governments and grammars. In contrast to this, due to the fact that we are embodied beings, there is also an entropic drive (germinating from human phenomenology) towards chaos. We see this demonstrated by the existence of emotion, free will, weather patterns and so on. These conflicting drives follow along an order/disorder axis. As these drives follow along this continuum in opposite directions, a tension, or force dynamic relationship, is created between the entropic and the neg-entropic. I assert that it is this tension that results in aesthetic appeal or dynamism and that this effect, which is not specific to any one modality, is a discrete character of the cognitive underpinnings of the aesthetic experience.
Per Aage Brandt (Committee Chair)
Todd Oakley (Advisor)
Yanna Popova (Committee Member)
82 p.
English literature; Fine Arts; Language; Language Arts; Linguistics; Philosophy; Psychology
entropy; neg-entropy; embodiment; phenomenology; semiotics; cognitive aesthetics; semiotic square; diegesis; blending; actant; temporality

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  • Schartman, S. (2010). The Logic of Disorder: A Dynamic View of Cognitive Aesthetics [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1270180685

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Schartman, Samantha. The Logic of Disorder: A Dynamic View of Cognitive Aesthetics. 2010. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1270180685.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Schartman, Samantha. "The Logic of Disorder: A Dynamic View of Cognitive Aesthetics." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1270180685

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