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The act of explaining does not mean to find reasons and motivations outside of the facts; it is the way in which information is assembled in order for us to gain understanding.
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Like technical instructions, or directions for using a tool or taking medicine, an explanation does not give a sense or assign meaning to the reality being described.
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Like technical instructions, or directions for using a tool or taking medicine, an explanation does not give a sense or assign meaning to the reality being described.
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With the increasing cognitive, scientific, sociological and psychological tools available to us, explanation has become a more involved and complex process, since it defers the understanding and recognition of the subject, rendering the explanation an infinite jumble of causes often difficult to grasp. As such, it does not help us orient ourselves and decide our actions as a result.
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The events and stories explained to us on the internet exist outside of ourselves; they have no connection to our personal lives or our individuality. We cannot enter into a relationship because we feel no emotion.
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The prints presented here are in part reproductions of photograms from the film “The Silence” (1963) by Ingmar Bergman -- a world so near and yet so far. Without any explanation, the paradigm of inductive generalisation (a type of inductive reasoning)overrides time and calls for an empathetic reaction.
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Observing the images, we seem to understand the boy in his escape from the room at the Grand Hotel; we understand him through his view onto reality from the train window: he is stunned, and the effect of what he sees stuns us as |
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Comprehension is achieved through the processes of identification and projection, or rather, transference, because to understand makes
not only one person comprehensible to another, but everything characterised by subjectivity and affectivity.
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In the past, the French existentialists spared no criticism of all explanations per se, claiming them to be fake remedies to serious problems, merely temporary palliatives for wounds that remain insufferable, that are to be endured. Wounds much less denied or explained, since every explanation signifies a repression, and hence a negation, of harsh reality, of the facts themselves.
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Olimpia Hruska |
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7 marzo 2023 - Ostrov di Massa Marittima |
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