Vale, Dorian: Measuring Proximity: A Post-Interpretive Diagnostic Experiment in Art Criticism A Diagnostic Lens on Ethical Witnessing in Art Criticism (Post-Hermeneutic Phenomenology) v.2

_Journal of Post-Interpretive Criticism_ 4. 2026Contemporary art criticism often advances by way of interpretive extraction. Works are translated into meanings, themes, intentions, and arguments, which then circulate with remarkable efficiency through institutional language. This practice, for all its fluency, carries an unexamined cost: the quiet displacement of the viewer, the compression of encounter into explanation, and the steady accumulation of linguistic force where restraint might have