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”
Category Archives: Design and World
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”
World
RELATED TERMS: Dau Project; Diegese and Diegesis; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Storyworld; “these three types of world — the world, my world and a contained world-like domain — are often difficult to distinguish.” (Gaston, 2013: x) “Every human lives in a world”. (Reed, 2021) “the word ‘world’ constantly shifts between its cosmological, ontological, theological,Continue reading “World”
World-Building
RELATED TERMS: Arendt; Design of Narrative Environments; Global Challenges; Heidegger; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Ontology; Sloterdijk; Terraforming; Theoretical Practice; World; World-as-Milieu Use for: World-forming, World-making, Worlding, World-shaping, Welt-Bilden “the last man will save from the rubble a stool or a tree stump on which to rest from his labours …” (Cliff and De Chabaneix,Continue reading “World-Building”
Actor-Network Theory
RELATED TERMS: Actant; Actantiality; Actantial model – Greimas; Human Actantiality; Agency; Theoretical practice; Ethnomethodology; Latour; Storyworld; Apparatus – Dispositif; Object-Oriented Ontology According to Jary and Jary (2000), actor-network theory combines post-structuralist insights with detailed empirical studies of scientific practices and technologies, organisations and social processes. It builds on the work of Bruno Latour, John Law and Michel Callon. TheContinue reading “Actor-Network Theory”
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