{"essay_id":"new-art","theme":{"id":"hindsight-recognition","name":"Hindsight Recognition","thesis":"New art cannot be perceived directly in the moment; it is only recognized in hindsight, mistaken for life until it has already happened.","evidence":[{"speaker":"d","quote":"ive been thinking about what it would take to create something truly of the time and how we would be mostly blind to it."},{"speaker":"tom","quote":"Will we even be able to perceive a new form of art in the moment, to experience it directly, catching it in the act of its performance or will we only recognize it in hindsight (and is that even a bad thing)?"},{"speaker":"d","quote":"so i think we would recognize things in hindsight. and i don't think that's bad unless you want to be an active participant in the beginning of the new newness."}],"questions":["Is hindsight recognition a feature or a limitation?","What does it mean to be an 'active participant in the newness'?"],"relates_to":["new-cultural-organs","participation-spectrum"]},"relationships":[{"from":"hindsight-recognition","to":"new-cultural-organs","relationship":"causation","description":"We recognize in hindsight because the new cultural organs needed to perceive in real-time haven't yet developed."},{"from":"participation-spectrum","to":"hindsight-recognition","relationship":"feedback-loop","description":"Non-participants can only recognize in hindsight; participants may perceive in real-time."}]}