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: Narrative and the Self
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”
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