Episode 16: Raffle-winner Destin: It Moves Us. We Call it "Art"
Destin was the winner of our raffle at our fundraising event at Postmasters Gallery in October, 2019. It was a contest to raffle off a philosopher, and I, Dena Shottenkirk, ended up being the philosopher who was raffled and Destin won the slot of being the talkPOPc participant. He gives a definition of art as something that makes people feel something. He also argues that prestige items are such because they make us feel something. They move us. Something is expensive because it makes us feel something. Cars, jewelry, etc. I give this back to him and ask him if this is what he is saying: things are valued because they move us, and art is just a subcategory of that. It is the being dazzled that makes something valuable. He concurs.
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