RELATED TERMS: New Materialism; Object-Oriented Ontology; Postanthropocentrism; Posthumanism; Poststructuralism The term speculative realism was coined by Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier and Iain Hamilton Grant as a title for a conference held at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2007. According to Avanessian and Malik (2016) speculative realists positioned themselves in distinction to both poststructuralismContinue reading “Speculative Realism”
Category Archives: Design and World
Realism
RELATED TERMS: Actant; Audience; Defamiliarisation; Dau Project; Humanism; Posthumanism; “The essence of realism … is the distance taken with regard to stories, to their temporal schemes and their sequences of causes and effects. Realism opposes situations that endure to stories that link together and pass from one to the next.” (Ranciere, 2013: 7) “Stories demandContinue reading “Realism”
Object-Oriented Ontology
RELATED TERMS: Actor-Network Theory; New Materialism; Ontological Designing; Postanthropocentrism; Posthuman; Posthumanism; Speculative Realism; As an inheritor of the line of thinking developed by actor-network theory, on the one hand, and phenomenology, on the other hand, object-oriented ontology (OOO) may be of interest to design practices in as far as it concerns the relationship between theContinue reading “Object-Oriented Ontology”
Methodology and Method
RELATED TERMS: Affordances; Avant-garde movements; Critical Theory; Critical thinking; Cultural Studies; Dissensus – Ranciere; Ethnomethodology; Feminism and Materialism; Historical materialism – Marxism; Multimodal research; Ontology; Performance and Performativity; Postmodernism; Poststructuralism; Psychogeography; Research Methodologies; Storyworld; Theoretical Practice; Wicked Problems – Wicked Challenges “philosophers and literary theorists frequently refer to theories as stories (in this story we have to acceptContinue reading “Methodology and Method”
Lifeworld – Lebenswelt
RELATED TERMS: Affordances; Arendt; Dasein; Design History; Diégèse and Diegesis; The Everyday and Design; Metalepsis; Ontological Designing; Ontological Metalepsis; Phenomenology; Storyworld; World; World-Building “Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” Chief Seattle Designs, particularly within the approach of theContinue reading “Lifeworld – Lebenswelt”
Design, Entwurf, Entwerfen
RELATED TERMS: Dasein; Technology, Writing, Design; Libidinal Economy – Part 1; Before-After-Thought In James Joyce’s terms, thrownness, or living in the wake, is expressed as, “from the night we are and feel and fade with to the yesterselves we tread to turnupon” (FW473. I0-11, quoted by Heath,1984). Design Projection In relation to the potential of designContinue reading “Design, Entwurf, Entwerfen”
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”
Global Challenges – Learning
RELATED TERMS: Global Challenges; Wicked Problems – Wicked Challenges According to Nicholas Maxwell (2021), humanity is confronted by two great challenges of learning: learning about the universe; and about ourselves and other living things as a part of the universe; and learning how to create civilisation. The first challenge, Maxwell contends, has been addressed by modernContinue reading “Global Challenges – Learning”
Global Challenges
Related Terms: Wicked Problems – Wicked Challenges; World-Building “We are confronted in the twenty-first century with an array of serious problems but among them two immense challenges stand out: on the one hand, those problems presented by carbon technologies, and, on the other hand, those posed by silicon technologies.” (Daniel Ross, 2019) In the philosophyContinue reading “Global Challenges”
World-as-Milieu
RELATED TERMS: World; World Building Bernard Stiegler, in contemplating the mode of existence of the noetic soul, in other words, the (human) psychic apparatus, is led to consider what is its milieu. Ross (2018: 16) explains that, at first, Stiegler thought it must be language. However, further contemplation made him realise that it is theContinue reading “World-as-Milieu”
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