2018
DOI: 10.1080/00168890.2018.1507993
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The Sense of Tact: Hoffmann, Maelzel, and Mechanical Music

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“…Alternatively, we suggest the logic of tact (or what Ricœur alludes to as “engagement”) as alternative modus operandi that guides decision-making in the fog of crisis. With Engberg-Pedersen (2018) we argue that tact isthe cognitive faculty invoked to make sense of our senses. Establishing an aesthetic order, the sense of tact extends its ghostly hands to feel out the truth that does not have the universality or regularity of a law, but that nevertheless enables actions that are apt and meaningful.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Alternatively, we suggest the logic of tact (or what Ricœur alludes to as “engagement”) as alternative modus operandi that guides decision-making in the fog of crisis. With Engberg-Pedersen (2018) we argue that tact isthe cognitive faculty invoked to make sense of our senses. Establishing an aesthetic order, the sense of tact extends its ghostly hands to feel out the truth that does not have the universality or regularity of a law, but that nevertheless enables actions that are apt and meaningful.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Translated into our context, the logic of tact describes how decision-making orchestrated collective action in a situation of crisis. The other two logics rely (metaphorically speaking) on the decision-maker’s calculator or the decision-maker’s memory; the logic of tact emerges when there is no calculation and no script to remember; rather, tact circumscribes a careful Sichherantasten to a situation that does not follow (as Engberg-Pedersen (2018) puts it) a law but that “nevertheless enables actions that are apt and meaningful.” Table 1 summarizes the three complementary logics of decision-making.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Barham is exhibiting it just now for the inventor, Clark, whom I also saw. Though I cannot say much for the sense of the verses, there are occasional and recurring errors in quantity 8 , and I suspect that the range of the machine is much more limited than is alleged. The inventor spent fifteen years upon it-five more years than are needed to make a boy into a verse-making machine, and still less perfect.…”
Section: Receptionmentioning
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“…An automaton built in the 1770s by the Jaquet-Droz family could hand-write texts, driven by a wheel that coded the text letter by letter [34]. The German inventor Johann Nepomuk Maelzel manufactured music-playing automatons including, in 1805, the Panharmonicon which could imitate orchestral instruments [8]. However, nobody until John Clark had demonstrated a mechanical device to automate the creative process of versification.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%