RELATED TERMS: Remembering: Mnemonics, Mnemotechne and Memory [Katie] Hafner: I’ve heard Bran [Ferren] say before that he thinks technology should be invisible. [Danny] Hillis: Good technology ceases to become technology. You don’t think of a pencil as technology, because it just does what it’s supposed to do. You don’t think of a book as technology, becauseContinue reading “Technology”
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Performance and Performativity
RELATED TERMS: Actant; Happenings; Metalepsis; Methodology and Method; Paradigm; Performance Art; “You are more than entitled to know what the word ‘performative’ means. It is a new word and an ugly word, and perhaps it does not mean anything very much. But at any rate there is one thing in its favour, it is notContinue reading “Performance and Performativity”
Phenomenology
RELATED TERMS: Affordances; Arendt; Feminism and Materialism; Heidegger; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Ontology; Philosophy; Place, Space, Placiality, Spatiality; Present-at-hand (Vorhanden) and Ready-to-hand (Zuhanden); If it is accepted that the human is one of the main constituents or domains of actantiality in the realisation of a design, then the relevance of phenomenology becomes apparent, asContinue reading “Phenomenology”
s-o-f-t.agency [Soft Agency]
RELATED TERMS: According to their website, Soft Agency is a group of female architects, artists, curators, scholars and writers from across the world who work with spatial practices. Their work is rooted in feminist methodological practices and formats, at the intersection of critical spatial practice, radical pedagogies, collectivities of becoming otherwise and alternative modes ofContinue reading “s-o-f-t.agency [Soft Agency]”
Organology
RELATED TERMS: A general organology is an account of life when it involves not just organic matter but organised inorganic matter. As Stiegler (2020: 73) puts it, “General organology attempts to establish a theory of technical life, conceived here as a process whose evolution is indissolubly psycho-socio-techno-logical, in addition to being relatively bio-logical, which meansContinue reading “Organology”
Defamiliarisation
USE for: Defamiliarization; Ostranenie; Making Strange RELATED TERMS: Avant-garde movements; Modernism; Psychogeography; Situationist International; Alienation effect (Verfremdungseffekt); Epic theatre – Brecht; Xu Zhen Supermarket; Dissensus – Ranciere; Genre – and Story (fabula) and Plot (sjuzet); Story (fabula) and Plot (sjuzet or sjuzhet); Realism Defamiliarisation, Ostranenie or making strange is a literary device that was brought to attentionContinue reading “Defamiliarisation”
Decolonisation and Decoloniality
RELATED TERMS: Modernity and Coloniality Decolonisation is the historical struggle for national sovereignty against colonialism. In recent history, the term is most often applied to the decolonisations that took place in the period after World War II, when European countries generally lacked the wealth and political support necessary to suppress faraway revolts in their colonies. Furthermore,Continue reading “Decolonisation and Decoloniality”
Dau Project
RELATED TERMS: Realism; World, World of the Story and World of the Narrative Environment An interesting question for the narrative environment designer is: to what extent was the Dau project, enacted in 2009-2011, and reiterated in 2019, a narrative environment? It also raises, obliquely, the question of the boundaries between (voluntary) ‘participation’ and (involuntary) ‘subjection’ particularly, asContinue reading “Dau Project”
Dasein
RELATED TERMS: Design, Entwurf, Entwerfen; Storyworld; Everyday; Present-at-hand (Vorhanden) and Ready-to-hand (Zuhanden); Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Modernism; Philosophy; Sloterdijk; Heidegger; Nietzsche “There is a Dasein whose thrownness consists precisely in the overcoming of its thrownness.” Herbert Marcuse (2005, 1928: 32). As one particular understanding or interpretation of ‘lifeworld’ or ‘being-in-the-world’ or, indeed, the everyday,Continue reading “Dasein”
Daoism
USE for: Taoism RELATED TERMS: The notion of dao (tao), in as far as it indicates a path, a way or a set of principles, may have importance for considering the kind of pathway or passage that occurs in a narrative environment. Also, reference to the dao is important in highlighting that a narrative environment is always, to someContinue reading “Daoism”
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