Episode 53: Attention, Education, and "Can art change your attitude to the world?" Resident Philosopher with talkPOPc participant Mark Friedman

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talkPOPc participant Mark Friedman begins the conversation with  Resident Philosopher Carolina Flores by talking about the Italian Renaissance, in particular the Ghiberti doors n Florence, which is where he spent his study-abroad year as a college student. Flores points out that when you see something in person and study it in person it is so different than seeing it also; noting that perhaps it's that one is paying attention to the thing in a different way, and thus understanding it better as you've also added in the cultural context. He then transition to Duchamp's "Urinal," and readymades, and states that sometimes you see art hanging on a museum wall and wonder "really, that??" intimating that you can be puzzled but then move beyond that. Flores sums up the conversation by addressing issues of attention/focus, and the process of learning about things, and asks Mark if art can really expand one's perspective.  He responds that film can obviously do that, but music can do that, too. Flores discusses how music encompasses certain attitudes to the world, similarly to Duchamp's fuck-you gesture. Mark agrees and uses the example of punk, or that disco vibe of everything's-all-right. So, he asks, has a piece of music literally changed the way one thinks?Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/talkpopc)