Amateurs analysis of Stiegler’s "Kant Art and Time"

By Neil Peach


ABSTRACT

This is an amateur’s analysis of an erudite article written by Bernard Stiegler. Amateur is a term brought back by Stiegler in order to reflect that amateurs 

  • Love their area of interest and are not professionals but seek increased proficiency in their area of interest

  • Do not have a primary interest as a commercial consumer per se but seek to develop their skills through the close following of those who are very good at what they do 

  • Years ago would go to the Louvre in Paris [and probably to galleries in towns where they lived] to ‘copy’ the masters - in order to learn and understand what the masters saw as they painted.

As such this article is not an academic analysis [that builds insight [and context] using references outside of Stiegler]: It simply seeks to follow and understand the ‘contours’ of Stiegler’s careful thought or thoughtful care for the subject of his work.

This particular article”Kant, Art and Time”   is one of three that appeared in Boundary 2 in 2017 [Issue 44:1] dealing  with aesthics/sensibility. I have placed a copy of Stiegler’s article at the end of this paper. 

In his article  Stiegler plots the change in aesthetic  appreciation over the last few hundred years using Kant’s thinking [circa 18th Century] on aestthetic judgement as a point of reference for comparing with changes that occurred, since then, in how we approach modern [contemporary] art. In essence, my understanding of Stiegler’s assessment is that these changes have arisen because

  1.  the function of art has changed 

  2. at the same time as the subject of art has changed 

  3. as well as the way we think about art having changed. 

This exegesis is based on the general idea of ‘copying the master’ - therefore I use his words extensively without specific ‘referencing’- there can be no doubt that I am endeavouring to simply reflect what I think Stiegler is endeavouring to say. So the attribution for everything in this article is Stiegler -  save for my amateur efforts to present it so that I can learn from it.  



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