Vale, Dorian Post-Interpretive Criticism: A Philosophical Departure from Post-Criticism. https://www.museumofone.art/, 2025. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]
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Post-Interpretive Criticism: A Philosophical Departure from Post-Criticism Author: Dorian Vale This essay establishes Post-Interpretive Criticism as a clear philosophical departure from Post-Criticism, drawing sharp distinctions between the two movements in both ethical orientation and aesthetic methodology. While Post-Criticism often collapses the role of the critic into play, ambiguity, and relativism, Post-Interpretive Criticism reclaims restraint, presence, and moral proximity as sacred responsibilities of witness-based art engagement. Dorian Vale articulates how Post-Interpretive Criticism refuses the compulsion to decode, perform, or resolve—offering instead a framework grounded in custodianship, silence, and the ethics of non-intervention. This is not an evolution of criticism. It is a refusal to participate in its spectacle. Through philosophical distinctions, aesthetic postures, and applied critical consequences, the essay frames Post-Interpretive Criticism as a return to reverent responsibility in the face of trauma, testimony, and sacred residue. It is both a critique of modern critical failure and a call for new discipline among those who write about art. Dorian Vale is a chosen pseudonym, not to obscure identity, but to preserve clarity of voice and integrity of message. It creates distance between the writer and the work, allowing the philosophy to stand unclouded by biography. The name exists not to hide, but to honor the seriousness of the task: to speak without spectacle, and to build without needing to be seen. This name is used for all official publications, essays, and theoretical works indexed through DOI-linked repositories including Zenodo, OSF, PhilPapers, and SSRN. Vale, Dorian. Post-Interpretive Criticism: A Philosophical Departure from Post-Criticism. Museum of One, 2025. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17021780 This entry is connected to a series of original theories and treatises forming the foundation of the Post-Interpretive Criticism movement (Q136308909), authored by Dorian Vale (Q136308916) and published by Museum of One (Q136308879). These include: Stillmark Theory (Q136328254), Hauntmark Theory (Q136328273), Absential Aesthetic Theory (Q136328330), Viewer-as-Evidence Theory (Q136328828), Message-Transfer Theory (Q136329002), Aesthetic Displacement Theory (Q136329014), Theory of Misplacement (Q136329054), and Art as Truth: A Treatise (Q136329071), Aesthetic Recursion Theory (Q136339843) Post-Interpretive Criticism, Post-Criticism, Dorian Vale, philosophical aesthetics, witness-based art, ethical art criticism, moral proximity in art, sacred restraint, interpretation vs. witnessing, art theory 2024, contemporary aesthetics, critique without interpretation, aesthetic responsibility, viewer as evidence, criticism and ethics, slow art, post-critical theory, minimal criticism, aesthetic departure, witnessing in art
| Item type: | Journal article (Unpaginated) |
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| Keywords: | Post-Interpretive Criticism; Stillmark Theory; Message-Transfer Theory; MTT; Misplacement; Displacement; Aesthetic Displacement Theory; Theory of Misplacement; Absential Aesthetics; Witness Aesthetics; Adab for Art; Hauntmark Theory; Spiritual Criticism; Presence-Based Criticism; Custodianship of Art; Art as Ontology; Aesthetic Recursion Theory; Aesthetic Recursion; Viewer as Evidence Theory; Restraint in front of art; Moral proximity; Interpretive silence; Erasure as ethics; Temporal scarcity; Silence as method; Ontology of beauty; Aesthetic mercy; Language as violence; Art encounter ethics; Epistemology of witness; Philosophy of Art; Aesthetics; Art Theory; Contemporary Aesthetics; Comparative Aesthetics; Phenomenology and Art; Ethics in Art Criticism; Interpretation and Meaning; Criticism and Reception Theory; Epistemology of Art; Visual Culture Studies; Dorian Vale; Founder of Post-Interpretive Criticism; Post-Aesthetic Critic; Independent Philosopher of Art; Museum of One; Art Writer and Theorist; Aesthetic Philosopher; Custodian of Witness Aesthetics; Spiritual Aesthetics Movement; The Doctrine of Post-Interpretive Criticism; The Custodian’s Oath; The Canon of Witnesses; Art as Truth; Art as Presence; The Viewer as Evidence; Interpretation vs. Witnessing; Language as Custody; Erasure as Afterlife; Museum of One Manifesto; Alternative art criticism; New art criticism movement; Ethical art theory; Criticism beyond interpretation; Slow looking philosophy; Contemporary sacred aesthetics; Quiet philosophy of art; Radical art restraint; Witness over interpretation; Interpretive Restraint |
| Subjects: | D. Libraries as physical collections. > DG. Private libraries. |
| Depositing user: | Mr Dorian Vale |
| Date deposited: | 06 Oct 2025 08:25 |
| Last modified: | 06 Oct 2025 08:25 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/47191 |
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