Separation

Upon reading Wysocki’s article "The Sticky Embrace of Beauty: On Some Formal Problems in Teaching about the Visual Aspects of Texts” I found myself agreeing with Wysocki’s disagreement with the separation by Immanuel Kant of humans and nature. This separation may be indicative of one of the current issues facing academia. There has been tradition in separating subjects into their different departments and focusing on an isolated set of material. In the process of the separation, the study of overlap and interconnectedness becomes neglected. I know that in my class history, art, math, and science inevitably arise, they give the students a fuller understanding of the content. In order to understand some aspects it seems that you must understand how it interrelates, for instance how conventions of design and understandings of culture do in Wysocki’s article.