RELATED TERMS: Hephzibah Anderson (2022) reviews Rachel Aviv’s first book, Strangers to Ourselves: Stories of Unsettled Minds. The book, according to Anderson, is a subtle and penetrating investigation into how ‘mental illness’ is diagnosed. It brings to attention the ways in which the diagnostic language used is far from neutral. Rather, Aviv suggests, such language,Continue reading “Designing, Psycho-Semiosis, Bio-Semiosis [Snippets 5]”
Category Archives: Design and Language
Fiction
RELATED TERMS: (Of) Grammatography In the early 15th century, ficcioun meant that which is invented or imagined in the mind. The word derived from the Old French ficcion, which meant dissimulation, ruse; or invention and fabrication in the 13th century. This, in turn derived directly from the Latin fictionem, meaning a fashioning or feigning. ThisContinue reading “Fiction”
Storyworld
RELATED TERMS: Imaginary; Dasein; Ontological metalepsis; Diégèse and Diegesis; World; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Actant; Actor Network Theory; Methodology and Method “The founding story of the academic world is Socrates being a gadfly.” (Jonathan Haight, quoted in an interview with David Shariatmadari, 2025) Design practice involves the articulation of (interpreted) narrative world/worlds and (embodied)Continue reading “Storyworld”
Deixis and Deictic Acts
RELATED TERMS: Deictic Cascade; Diegetic Levels; Heterarchy; Metalepsis; Modes of Existence; Tangled Hierarchy and Strange Loop; Transgression Designs enact deictic cascades that frame their actions, or their actantiality, their potential for action, in the theoretical language adopted here. In practice, such hierarchical cascades of deixis form strange loops and heterarchies, giving shape to the shared,Continue reading “Deixis and Deictic Acts”
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