The germs of two valuable principles of education may also be gathered from the 'words of priests and priestesses:' (1) that true knowledge is a knowledge of causes (compare Aristotle's theory of
episteme); and (2) that the process of learning consists not in what is brought to the learner, but in what is drawn out of him.
Their overall themes are scenography in and beyond the theater: aesthetics and
episteme, the circulation of scenographic knowledge and cultural transfer, and rethinking scenography.
Es esta preocupacion la que nos situa en el tercer momento, la
episteme: la cuestion del objeto.
At the age of inception during the time of the pre-Socratics (and, here, perhaps up to Plato and Aristotle) where phusis predominates as the ground, philosophy and
episteme develop as the higher forms of knowledge.
Feathered Serpent is a significant work toward the recovery of a pre-Columbian
episteme of Mexico, arguing for an ethical relationship between humans and the cosmos, since it is humans' good deeds (and sacrifices) that keep Xiuhtecuhtli (time and fire god) and Nanahuatzin (the sun) in motion.
Yet the internet remains a distinct platform bound to social, historical, and political forces, and the challenge of "Art in the Age of the Internet" is to acknowledge this while presenting a larger "postmedia" ecology of aesthetic objects responding to our technological
episteme.
In Plato's Euthydemus, Socrates claims that the possession of
episteme (usually construed as knowledge or understanding) suffices for practical success.
An analogous reading is to be applied to the concept of
episteme, which is used by Foucault to replace "periods" or "epochs." But
episteme is not the same as an epoch: it is a quasi-transcendental epoch, a discursive condition, the historical a priori of what is always erroneously postulated (from the perspective of the spirit"s narcissistic self-reflectivity, the collective consciousness, the subject etc.) as the synthetic unity of a given epoch.