Category Archives: World and Worldlessness

Worldlessness #2: Worldlessness and Design 

The text discusses the significance of contemporary design practices, particularly focusing on world-building as a vital approach for shaping societal values and ideologies. It explores the interplay between design, modernity, and worldlessness, proposing a shift from traditional world-making to envisioning worldlessness without apocalyptic implications, challenging designers to rethink their creative responsibilities.

Worldlessness #1

RELATED TERMS: World; World-as-Milieu; World-Building; Worldlessness #2: Worldlessness and Design A Possible Phenomenology of the Anonymous, the Invisible, the Im-material and the Im-mediate It was noted in The Paradox of the Anonymous that Dan Hancox (2025) projectively and retrojectively ascribes to Walter Benjamin a wish or a command for us, “to sift through the rubble,Continue reading “Worldlessness #1”

(The) Common (World)

RELATED TERMS: (The) Everyday and Design; World; Worldlessness USE FOR: Shared World; World in Common You-I interconnectedness and Being-with The initial discursive sources for the recognition of the common, as the shared world, the only world that there is, are firstly Beata Stawarska’s dialogical phenomenology, which establishes the ontological primacy of the the You-I relationContinue reading “(The) Common (World)”

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”

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”