Alfred GellThinkers

A-series - b-series is two interpretations of time, the a-series being like the growing within time of a budding flower, and the b-series like the succession of isolated happenings like a string of beads.

Abduction of agency is the loose differential structure used to investigate how art actively acts upon the passive viewer.

Agency is the property of a human actor. A causal force possessed by an intentional agent which, interestingly can be deferred onto an object or artwork.

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Anthropology seeks to analyze not simply action but social agency to contextualize behavior in the dynamics of social action, a dialectic that unfolds in time.

The Anthropology of art is the study of social relations in the vicinity of objects mediating social agency.

Art is a system whereby artist produce art objects to effect changes in aesthetic perception.

Art is an ideological apparatus, meant to create, diffuse, confirm or contest cultural values through the power of images.

The Inter-artifactual domain is a set of relations between relations.

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