Manifesto: Rasigan

Manifesto

1. Rasigan
• "..the only meanings we take away from cinema are the ones we ascribe to it, during our very personal viewing experience." -- Lights, Camera, Conversation... - Analyse This
• "..belong to the Authorial Intent school, deeming that the author decides the meaning of art, whereas I am a card-carrying subscriber of the Reader Response club, which shifts the responsibility of gleaning meaning from the person who creates art to the one who experiences it." -- Lights-camera-conversation-the-awakening-of-unconsciousness/
• 'I wonder what Shakespeare in Heaven would think of this analysis? I can imagine his saying something like “Interesting idea! I never thought of my sonnet that way, but I guess his way is one of many interesting possible ways of looking at it.” My point, of course, is that Bucke’s analysis is interesting irre- spective of whether or not Shakespeare really had this in mind.' -- Who knows a study of Religious consciousness by Raymond M.Smullyan
• "Ultimately, perhaps it's more enjoyable for the full intentions of the author to remain unknown during the reading of the book." -- Is Alice in Wonderland really about drugs?
2. Kalaingan
• "..one must also consider intention when distinguishing dance from other patterns of movement." -- Stretching beyond idea
• "In a way, it doesn't matter," says Browne. "I don't think Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland to be interpreted. He wrote it to entertain." -- Is Alice in Wonderland really about drugs?
3. Values for Judgement
• "Scientists have known for some time that what we consider beauty is mostly looking normal. Beautiful people have more averaged faces, their faces and bodies have fewer deviations from symmetry. This underlies a lot of the more variable appreciation of beauty which depend on fashion and culture. This suggests that what we think might be an exceptional trait, such as beauty, may actually be the result of lacking major deviations from normalness." -- Nonconformers Need Better Social Skills
4. Experience of the work is what matters!!
• "The term "recognition" is commonly used to describe the point in a story when all of a sudden we understand what is going on, and by that very process understand ourselves." -- The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by John Coates
• "Ah! Books give you sentences which you can roll around in the mind, throw in the air, catch, tease out, analyse. But in whatever way you handle them, they widen your vision. For they are essentially Idea-creating, in the sense that Coleridge meant when he described the Idea as containing future thought – as opposed to the Epigram which encapsulates past thought. Ah! Books give the impression that you are opening a new account, not closing an old one down." -- Vernon Sproxton in introduction to the book "MiSTER GOD, THiS iS anna"