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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
i guess what annoys me is the insular and self-referential nature of academia trundling along totally (and i think often deliberately) oblivious to the rest of world, but passing that on to people (by means of controlling eduction) as the "correct" or most desirable approach to making work.
my experience at art school was that the way the tutors would like you to rationalise everything goes directly in opposition to using your imagination freely, and that ultimately their use of critical theory was as a substitute for a lack of their own ideas.
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Yeah, there is a fine line that philosophy has walked since modernity between being truly relevant to the world in the way that only philosophy can be versus accusations from academic peers such as the sciences that philosophy is navel-gazing bullshit. It often alienates both in its attempt.
And considering that art has typically been a vessel of philosophy (via religion, to an extent) since even ancient Rome and before, art education embodies the dilemma.