While Mr. Wolff said that hundreds of visitors with special access to the site have been viewing and critiquing it for months, it went live on Wednesday, and he did not expect bloggers to discover it so quickly.
"From 'the city that never sleeps'…" "[The piece] is another step away for me from the modernist position," he adds, "which was: 'The composer's smarter than you and you'd better sit down and listen, and if you're clever enough you might understand it.' I always had a problem with that, and in various overt or covert ways I've been critiquing it for a long time.
They also critiqued it for threatening the social structures and relationships that they relied on for material survival, and for failing to address issues like poverty and unemployment.
This is the heart of quality control: peers – experts working in the same field – anonymously review the work; they challenge it, critique it, ask for new perspectives to be considered, and may even suggest changes in the analysis and presentation.
But as a critique, it is ripe for a revisionist second look.
The same goes for political critique: it is relatively easy (if often ineffective) to do so frontally or in confrontation.
Like the youth respondents the women described varied representations of the rights-based approach, noting some positive changes associated with it, but primarily critiquing it fiercely for clashing with cultural values and being out-of-sync with their own priorities.
Any implications of either Kant's account or of Schiller's critique of it for the case of artistic representation would have to be inferred.
The boundaries are always open for critique, for discussion, for reflexion.
When football people critique Tebow, it's for football things; when his fans defend him, it's from something else entirely.
