On the horizon looms Star Trek: Lower Decks, an animated sitcom set in the Star Trek universe. Though this will not be the first Star Trek animated series (that distinction goes to the aptly named Star Trek: The Animated Series), Lower Decks will be Star Trek‘s first sitcom. Moreover, the series will, as far as I can tell, be considered canonical to the Star Trek franchise. As such, it...
Preface During this semester, Spring 2018, I have attended a Composition course at my university. For this course, I have developed a semester-long project about video games and whether they as a medium qualify as an art form. The project is ongoing and has had many facets, the first of which being in the form of a fairly conventional academic essay. A subsequent phase of the project allowed for...
Many of the most popular and influential books on writing drama and fiction focus on plot structure—and rightly so, for without structure narratives could not function. Considerably less emphasis has been placed on understanding serialized narratives and how their structures differ from non-serialized narratives. Over the next few entries in this blog, I intend to articulate some of my ideas and...
Words encapsulate and transmit meaning. A word without a meaning others can understand is useless. I’ve heard some say that art is whatever you say it is; if that’s the case, then I see no reason to ever use the word. I want the word art to be useful, so I strive to give it a useful definition. However, I will concede that art is difficult to define. Art is experiential, meaning that...
In my last post, I posited my definition of art: essentially, art is the cultivation of aesthetic value for its own sake. This definition relies upon another disputable definition, that of aesthetics. What are aesthetic values? To properly answer this question, we must first answer another question: what is the purpose of art? According to my definition, all art is manmade. As such, all art...
Throughout history, many different definitions of art have been posited. Since I intend to discuss art frequently on this blog, I feel it would be prudent to clarify what I mean when I use the term. My definition implies certain presuppositions, so I shall begin by pointing some of them out and explaining why I rely upon them. Art is not beauty. Art is usually or possibly always beautiful—I...
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