RELATED TERMS: Habitat; Niche; World Environment is the name given to the outcome of the active processes of environing, which create an immunological sphere, in Sloterdijk’s terms, and which thereby create a meaningful context for the actants who are engaged in creating, sustaining and changing it. Environment, in this sense, is close to the notions of habitatContinue reading “Environment”
Category Archives: Design and Environment
Enaction Paradigm – Cognitive Science
RELATED TERMS: Body; Exosomatisation; Ontological Metalepsis; Sensorimotor System; Somatosensory System; World-building Enaction, as a programme for understanding cognition, was initially articulated in 1991 by Varela, Thompson and Rosch (2016). This programme breaks with the formalisms of the information-processing and symbolic representation approaches previously prevalent in cognitive science. Instead, cognition is taken to be grounded inContinue reading “Enaction Paradigm – Cognitive Science”
Remembering: Mnemonics, Mnemotechne and Memory
RELATED TERMS: [Of] Grammatography; Hypomnesis, Hypermnesis and Anamnesis; Exosomatisation; Learning “Cities are made of sedimented strata of memory” (Adams, 2021) Frances Joseph (2010: 302) points out that mnemotechne is an archaic term for how memory and thought are fundamentally related to the inorganic through the world’s materiality. As such, she comments, it may well be theContinue reading “Remembering: Mnemonics, Mnemotechne and Memory”
Architecture
RELATED TERMS: Distribution of the Sensible – Ranciere; Interaction Design; Narratology; Sculpture; Urban design; “the sense of architectural space is … related to the political distribution of the sensible and the way it frames reality through fiction.” (Grabar, 2021: 279) Rowan Moore (2014) argues that it is a terrible misconception to think that architecture isContinue reading “Architecture”
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”
Tangled Hierarchy and Strange Loop
RELATED TERMS: Deixis and Deictic Acts; Heterarchy; Metalepsis; Ontological Metalepsis; “A weird knowing. Weird, from the Old Norse, urth, meaning twisted, in a loop.”(Morton, 2017: 92) Douglas Hofstadter (1979: 18) argues that a strange loop occurs whenever, by moving upwards or downwards through the levels of a hierarchical system, you unexpectedly find yourself right back where you started.Continue reading “Tangled Hierarchy and Strange Loop”
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