Behaving, Mattering, and Habits Called Aesthetics - Part 2: Theoretical Cays of Phenomenologically Making-Sense
Behaving, Mattering, and Habits Called Aesthetics - Part 2: Theoretical Cays of Phenomenologically Making-Sense

Summary/Abstract: Four cays are presented. The first is titled “behavior matters.” It consists of a composition of ideas from a discipline of behaviorism that relate with how behavior is material and how its meaning is actively practiced. Methodological behaviorism views its object of study as external, mechanistic, and separated from an esprit, which can be understood as a characteristic (ethos) or style of habitually behaving and growing exosomatically. Through habits, behaviors have their own material agency and forces of self-replication or selection. The second cay is titled “Oh Behave! The doings of habit or making bodies of art,” which is an account of the problem of sensibility and feeling (aesthetics) in relation to behavior. Phenomenological aspects of habitual retention are raised. This situates behavior as a phenomenon that does not exist, but rather consists with exorganogenesis, which is the production of artificial objects that resist utility or reductions to fixed employment. So, all art is an axiomatic product of behavior. The next cay is named “On the Material Habits Constitutive of Music, Caripulation, and Memory.”

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