RELATED TERMS: Collecting; Defamiliarisation; Events; Material Culture; New Materialism; Representation; Tangled Hierarchy and Strange Loop “the thing really names less an object than a particular subject-object relation.” (Brown, 2001: 4) “Thing theory is at its best … when it focuses on this sense of failure, or partial failure, to name or to classify. Thing theoryContinue reading “Things”
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New Materialism
RELATED TERMS: Affordances; Object-Oriented Ontology; Speculative Realism; Like new materialism, design practice is interested in, “understanding things as active agents rather than passive instruments or backdrops for human activity” (Barnett and Boyle, 2016). Certain aspects of new materialist thinking, which Sara Ahmed has called white feminist materialism (Hickey-Moody, 2015: 169), may be of value inContinue reading “New Materialism”
Apparatus – Dispositif
RELATED TERMS: Actor-Network Theory; Collage, Montage, Assemblage and Bricolage; Biopolitics and Biopower; Cinema and Film Theory; Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Control; Distribution of the Sensible; Genealogy – Nietzsche; Practice ” ‘échafaudage‘ is the term Axelos suggests best translates the Heideggerian notion of das Ge-stell, usually translated as ‘en-framing,’ or, in French, as arraissonment orContinue reading “Apparatus – Dispositif”
Anthropology
RELATED TERMS: Sociology; Ethnomethodology; Agency; Actor Network Theory; Cyborg Anthropology Anthropological research may provide some methodological guidance in the understanding of design practices as complex socio-cultural, techno-economic practices. For example, Anusas and Harkness (2014) suggest that, “in both anthropology and design … there is and perhaps always should be a concern with that other whichContinue reading “Anthropology”
Anthropocene – Capitalocene – Chthulucene; Plantationocene
RELATED TERMS: Anthropo-Scenes; Human Ecosystem; Postanthropocentrism; Posthuman; Posthumanism; Symbiocene; World; World-as-Milieu; World-Building “the Earth … is leaving the relatively stable and benign state that is known as the Holocene, the geological period of the last 11,700 or so years which is now retrospectively perceived as a rather unique period, the rare ‘long summer’ (Fagan 2004,Continue reading “Anthropocene – Capitalocene – Chthulucene; Plantationocene”
Anthropo-Scenes
RELATED TERMS; Anthropocene – Capitalocene – Chthulucene; Platationocene; Cultural geography; Postanthropocentrism; Posthuman; Posthumanism; One strand of narrative environments may be defined as Anthropo-Scenes: they concern what the world is like both now, what it might be like in times to come and what life, including human life, in those present and future worlds is likeContinue reading “Anthropo-Scenes”
Antagonist
RELATED TERMS: Actant; Actantial Model – Greimas; Agon; Narratology; Protagonist The term antagonist is derived from the Greek word antagonistes, meaning opponent, competitor or rival. The antagonist may be a character, group of characters, or an institution representing the difficulties and obstacles against which the protagonist must struggle, preventing the protagonist from achieving his/her/its/their quest, goal,Continue reading “Antagonist”
Analepsis and Prolepsis
RELATED TERMS: Tragic theatre – Aristotle; Metalepsis A Greek tragedy usually starts with a ‘flashback’ or analepsis, a recapitulation of the incidents of the story which occurred prior to those which were selected for the plot. The reader is plunged in medias res (‘into the middle of things’), and earlier incidents in the story are introducedContinue reading “Analepsis and Prolepsis”
Alienation effect (Verfremdungseffekt)
Use for Distancing effect; estrangement effect RELATED TERMS: Avant-garde movements; Defamiliarisation; Literary theory; Psychogeography; Situationist International; Epic theatre – Brecht; Theatre of Cruelty – Artaud Mode of address and mode of engagement of audience and/or participant are important aspects of the threshold and immersive experience of design interaction, in terms of narrative beginning and sequential progressionContinue reading “Alienation effect (Verfremdungseffekt)”
Alienation
Related terms; Alienation-effect (Verfremdungseffekt); Alltäglichkeit; The Commodity; Historical materialism – Marxism; Lefebvre; Reification; In general, alienation refers to the sense of distance from nature, separation from others, and helplessness that is an effect of modern existence since the time of the Industrial Revolution in the West, from approximately 1750 onwards. In Karl Marx’s writings, alienationContinue reading “Alienation”
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