Towards a Taoist aesthetics of data visualization.
As a dominant Western aesthetics, the Kantian sublime involves power over nature perceived from a distance. In the Kantian model, the sublime oscillates between the mathematical sublime—emphasizing the vastness of nature that exceeds the comprehension of the viewer—and the dynamic sublime, in which...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 601 - 615 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2020
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