So should I regard, e.g., your doodling-in-math-class videos primarily as an attempt to engender an emotional response in their viewers?
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To clarify: do you consider their rhetorical and pedagogical effects incidental, and perhaps even mostly irrelevant?
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If one acknowledges no generally valid principles of art criticism, then as an artist one is essentially playing tennis without a net.
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Art without constraint tends to degenerate into self-indulgence, just as power without accountability leads to damaging abuses.
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I think a large part of the artist's creative obligation is to devise fruitful constraints. One must not only play the game, but invent it.
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And, having invented it, one must scrupulously referee one's own play. But most important, of course, is to prove its aesthetic fertility.
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Of course all this is just a metaphor, which is perhaps becoming a bit labored at this point. It is also merely my opinion.
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On the other hand, I do not think the danger of self-indulgence is merely a private concern of mine. No more than is the abuse of power.
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