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Jeg skjønner ikke hvorfor dette er så kontroversielt.
Vi innbiller oss ting.
Halvparten av dem som gifter seg innbiller seg at de skal leve sammen livet ut, og at de har funnet den perfekte partneren. Siden det er 50% skilsmisser (mer, faktisk), skjønner vi at innbilningskraften kan være i stand til å forvrenge virkeligheten så det holder.
;D
Mye av det jeg tror innen ulike områder er innbilning. Jeg brukte vel sjakksett som analogi tidligere. Jeg har et pent sjakksett, håndskåret tre - jeg innbiller meg at dette er laget av en engelsk eller italiensk artisan, som har brukt lang tid på å velge ut og kurere tresortene, og som har skapt settet vha tradisjoner som hans familie har utviklet over generasjoner.
Sannheten er nok en annen - men jeg lar være å grave i det. Innbilningen gir flyttingen av brikkene en tilleggsdimensjon. Konjakkglass i den ene hånden, italiensk treskjærerkunst i den andre - det gir stemning.
Samme innen hifi. Vi ønsker innbilningen som en faktor i opplevelsen, og strir imot når denne imøtegås.
Her er en ganske omfattende studie omkring emnet. Kan kjøpes - men her er sammendraget, en fin oppsummering:
Golden Ears and Meter Readers
The Contest for Epistemic Authority in Audiophilia
Marc Perlman
Brown University, Marc_Perlman@Brown.edu
Scientific claims to knowledge and the uses of technological artifacts are both inherently contestable, but both are not usually contested together. Consumers of specialty audio equipment (known as the high end), however, connect both forms of resistance. These audiophiles construct their own universe of meaning around their equipment; they cultivate a distinctive vocabulary and set of attitudes. In this they resemble other groups of users dedicated to supposedly antiquated technology. But they also engage in controversy to defend themselves against knowledge-claims that would delegitimize their universe of meaning. These debates concern recording formats or media (the relative merits of the compact disk [CD] and long-playing record [LP]), user tweaks of purchased equipment, and the supposed audibility of differences between different brands of amplifiers, cables, or CD players. In all of these cases, audiophiles resist the claims of audio engineering by privileging their personal experiences, and they argue against scientific methodologies that seem to expose those experiences as illusory. Some of these patterns of epistemic contestation resemble those in non-musical domains (such as biomedicine). But audiophiles also make epistemic use of values crucial to their identity as music-lovers. They appeal to a common understanding of music as an exemplary locus of subjectivity, emotion, and self-surrender, in order to ward off the criticisms directed at them from a science they construe as objective, detached, and dispassionate
Key Words: absolute sound alternative medicine digital versus analog double-blind testing experimenters regress listening
Social Studies of Science, Vol. 34, No. 5, 783-807 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0306312704047613
Skulle man ha lyst til å blåse USD 25: http://sss.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/34/5/783
Vi innbiller oss ting.
Halvparten av dem som gifter seg innbiller seg at de skal leve sammen livet ut, og at de har funnet den perfekte partneren. Siden det er 50% skilsmisser (mer, faktisk), skjønner vi at innbilningskraften kan være i stand til å forvrenge virkeligheten så det holder.
;D
Mye av det jeg tror innen ulike områder er innbilning. Jeg brukte vel sjakksett som analogi tidligere. Jeg har et pent sjakksett, håndskåret tre - jeg innbiller meg at dette er laget av en engelsk eller italiensk artisan, som har brukt lang tid på å velge ut og kurere tresortene, og som har skapt settet vha tradisjoner som hans familie har utviklet over generasjoner.
Sannheten er nok en annen - men jeg lar være å grave i det. Innbilningen gir flyttingen av brikkene en tilleggsdimensjon. Konjakkglass i den ene hånden, italiensk treskjærerkunst i den andre - det gir stemning.
Samme innen hifi. Vi ønsker innbilningen som en faktor i opplevelsen, og strir imot når denne imøtegås.
Her er en ganske omfattende studie omkring emnet. Kan kjøpes - men her er sammendraget, en fin oppsummering:
Golden Ears and Meter Readers
The Contest for Epistemic Authority in Audiophilia
Marc Perlman
Brown University, Marc_Perlman@Brown.edu
Scientific claims to knowledge and the uses of technological artifacts are both inherently contestable, but both are not usually contested together. Consumers of specialty audio equipment (known as the high end), however, connect both forms of resistance. These audiophiles construct their own universe of meaning around their equipment; they cultivate a distinctive vocabulary and set of attitudes. In this they resemble other groups of users dedicated to supposedly antiquated technology. But they also engage in controversy to defend themselves against knowledge-claims that would delegitimize their universe of meaning. These debates concern recording formats or media (the relative merits of the compact disk [CD] and long-playing record [LP]), user tweaks of purchased equipment, and the supposed audibility of differences between different brands of amplifiers, cables, or CD players. In all of these cases, audiophiles resist the claims of audio engineering by privileging their personal experiences, and they argue against scientific methodologies that seem to expose those experiences as illusory. Some of these patterns of epistemic contestation resemble those in non-musical domains (such as biomedicine). But audiophiles also make epistemic use of values crucial to their identity as music-lovers. They appeal to a common understanding of music as an exemplary locus of subjectivity, emotion, and self-surrender, in order to ward off the criticisms directed at them from a science they construe as objective, detached, and dispassionate
Key Words: absolute sound alternative medicine digital versus analog double-blind testing experimenters regress listening
Social Studies of Science, Vol. 34, No. 5, 783-807 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0306312704047613
Skulle man ha lyst til å blåse USD 25: http://sss.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/34/5/783
