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WD_068/ 2004
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Drawings | | Medium: | crayon and pencil on paper | | Size (inches): | 11.5 x 8.2 | | Size (mm): | 297 x 210 | | Catalog #: | WD_068 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
DILEMMA (Gr. &Xnuua, a double proposition, from L- and ?~auf3.vefv), a term used technically in logic, and popularly, in common parlance and rhetoric. (I) The latter use has no exact definition, but in general it describes a situation wherein from either of two (or more) possible alternatives an unsatisfactory conclusion results. The alternatives are called the horns of the dilemma. Thus a nation which has to choose between bankruptcy and the repudiation of its
debts is on the horns of a dilemma. (2) In logic there is considerable divergence of opinion as to the best definition. Whately defined it as a conditional syllogism with two or more antecedents in the major and a disjunctive minor. Aulus Gellius gives an example as follows: Women are either fair or ugly; if you marry a fair woman, she will attract other men; if an ugly woman she will not please you; therefore marriage is absurd. From either alternative, an unpleasant result follows.
Four kinds of dilemma are admitted:(a) Simple Constructive: If A, then C; if B, then C, but either B or A; therefore C. (b) Simple Destructive: If A is true, B is true; if A is true, C is true; B and C are not both true; therefore A is not true. (c) Complex Constructive: If A, then B; if C, then D; but either A or C; therefore either B or D. (d) Complex Destructive: If A is true, B is true; if C is true, D is true; but B and D are not both true; hence A and C are not both true. The soundness of the dilemmatic argument ingeneral depends on the alternative possibilities. Unless the alternatives produced exhaust the possibilities of the case, the conclusion is invalid. The logical form of the argument makes it especially valuable in public speaking, before uncritical audiences. It is, in fact, important rather as a rhetorcial subtlety than as a serious argument.
Dilemmist is also a term used to translate Vaibhashikas, the name of a Buddhist school of philosophy.
DILETTANTE, an Italian word for one who delights in the fine arts, especially in music and painting, so a lover of the fine arts in general. The Ital. dilettare is from Lat. delect are, to delight. Properly the word refers to an amateur as opposed to a professional cultivation of the arts, but like amateur it is often used in a depreciatory sense for one who is only a dabbler, or who only has a superficial knowledge or interest in art. The Dilettanti Society founded in 1733-1734 still exists in England. A history of the society, by Lionel Cust, was published in 1898.
-1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica
Oblique Strategies:
Oblique Strategies (subtitled over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas) is a set of published cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. Now in its fifth edition, they were first published in 1975. Each card contains a phrase or cryptic remark which can be used to break a deadlock or dilemma situation.
A few examples at random:
* State the problem in words as clearly as possible
* Only one element of each kind
* What would your closest friend do?
* What to increase? What to reduce?
* Try faking it!
From the introduction to the 2001 edition:
These cards evolved from separate observations of the principles underlying what we were doing. Sometimes they were recognised in retrospect (intellect catching up with intuition),sometimes they were identified as they were happening, sometimes they were formulated.
They can be used as a pack, or by drawing a single card from the shuffled pack when a dilemma occurs in a working situation. In this case the card is trusted even if its appropriateness is quite unclear...
-Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
OBLIQUE STRATEGIES: Over 100 worthwhile dilemmas by Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt
Adding to or removing them as one so desires.
Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities
Don't be frightened of cliches
What is the reality of the situation?
Are there sections? --- Consider transitions
Turn it upside down
Think of the radio
Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture)
Simple subtraction
Be dirty
Go slowly all the way round the outside
A line has two sides
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list
Into the impossible
Towards the insignificant
Ask people to work against their better judgement
Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance
Infinitesimal gradations
Change instrument roles
Accretion
Disconnect from desire
Emphasize repetitions
Faced with a choice, do both (given by Dieter Rot)
Children ---speaking ---singing
Lost in useless territory
A very small object Its center
Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do
Don't be frightened to display your talents
Breathe more deeply
Honor thy error as a hidden intention
What are the sections sections of? .... Imagine a caterpillar moving
Only one element of each kind
Is there something missing
Use `unqualified' people
How would you have done it?
Emphasize differences
Do nothing for as long as possible
Bridges ---build ---burn
Always give yourself credit for having more than personality
You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas
Tidy up
Do the words need changing?
Ask your body
Tape your mouth (given by Ritva Saarikko)
Water
Simply a matter of work
Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate
Consult other sources -promising -unpromising
Use an unacceptable color
Humanize something free of error
Use filters
Fill every beat with something
Discard an axiom
Not building a wall but making a brick
What wouldn't you do?
Lowest common denominator
Decorate, decorate
Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle
Get your neck massaged
Listen to the quiet voice
Do the washing up
Is it finished?
Put in earplugs
Reevaluation (a warm feeling)
Give the name away
Intentions ---nobility of ---humility of ---credibility of
Abandon normal instruments
Use fewer notes
Repetition is a form of change
Give way to your worst impulse
Reverse
Trust in the you of now
Imagine the piece as a set of disconnected events
What would your closest friend do?
Distorting time
Make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame
Feed the recording back out of the medium
Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten
... [blank white card]
Ghost echoes
You can only make one dot at a time
Just carry on
(Organic) machinery
The inconsistency principle
Don't break the silence
Idiot glee (?)
Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them
Cascades
Courage!
Spectrum analysis
What mistakes did you make last time?
Consider different fading systems
Mute and continue
Be extravagant
It is quite possible (after all)
What are you really thinking about just now?
Don't stress on thing more than another [sic]
State the problem in words as clearly as possible
Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group
You are an engineer
Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics
Look at the order in which you do things
Go outside. Shut the door.
Disciplined self-indulgence
Do we need holes?
Cluster analysis
Always first steps
Cut a vital conenction
Do something boring
Define an area as `safe' and use it as an anchor
Is the information correct?
Overtly resist change
Question the heroic approach
Accept advice
Twist the spine
Work at a different speed
Look closely at the most embarrassing details & amplify them
Mechanicalize something idiosyncratic
Emphasize the flaws
Remember those quiet evenings
Take a break
Short circuit (example; a man eating peas with the idea that they will improve hisvirility shovels them straight into his lap)
Left channel, right channel, center channel
Use an old idea
Destroy -nothing -the most important thing
Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency
The tape is now the music
Oblique Strategies © 1975, 1978, and 1979 Brian Eno/Peter Schmidt
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