Dexter Sinister presents Only an Attitude of Orientation

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Dexter Sinister presents "Only an Attitude of Orientation", five events on 
five consecutive days in conjunction with the current exhibition An 
Invitation to An Infiltration at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. 
The events will be held in various Vancouver venues one per day over the 
course of five days from TUESDAY JANUARY 26 through SATURDAY JANUARY 30. 
The details of each event will be announced the night before via this 
mailing list together with a short preparatory text:

Such an attitude is marked by both a rejection of absolute truths, and 
faith in verifiable facts. This is staunch empiricist thinking, founded on 
the notion that "beliefs" are, practically, "rules for action" and that we 
only need to perceive the potential function and/or outcome of such a 
thought's meaning in order to determine its significance. James sums up 
the pragmatic method as only an attitude of orientation, of looking away 
from first things (preconceptions, principles, categories, and supposed 
necessities) and towards last things (results, fruits, and consequences).

There are two introductory points to draw from this. First, that an 
attitude such as empiricism might be usefully identified and its 
implications drawn out and considered across disciplines. Second, that it 
is useful to start with the result in mind and work backwards, in order to 
design a method oriented towards achieving that outcome. And so in 
accordance with both: the hoped-for results of our as-yet phantom course 
are precisely the attitudes demonstrated by the following examples.

See
http://www.contemporaryartgallery.ca/#news
and
http://www.dextersinister.org/index.html?id=232
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