Reimagining Theatre Criticism

Reimagining the Programming Experience

iv Acknowledgments vii Chapter

Reimagining the Living Room

Acknowledgement

Antony: A Reimagining

We present a re-realization of David Wessel’s Antony (1977). Antony was originally composed using a novel set of additive synthesis techniques developed for the 4A and the PDP 11/40. Those techniques continued to play a role throughout Wessel’s life as an improviser, and inspired many of his students and colleagues. Our re-realization of Antony involves using those same techniques to reinterpre...

Criticism of Benacerraf’s Criticism of Modern Eleatics

I analyze here Benacerraf’s criticism of Thomson arguments on the impossibility of ω-supertasks. Although Benacerraf’s criticism is well founded, his analysis of Thomson’s lamp is incomplete. In fact, it is possible to consider a new line of argument, which Benacerraf only incidentally considered, based on the functioning laws of the lamp. This argument leads to a contradictory result that comp...

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!