RELATED TERMS: Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Control The question underlying this post is whether design practices are carried along by the shift proposed by Byung-Chul Han (2015), the impetus coming from elsewhere, or are they highly active proponents and drivers of the change, providing the materials for depressive evaluations of oneself, compulsive inattentiveness orContinue reading “Burnout Society”
Category Archives: Perception
Narrative Environments – Lynchian Set Design
RELATED TERMS: Actant; Defamiliarisation; Liminality; Design, the Buddhisms, Geo-Politics and Geo-Economics According to Edwin Heathcote (2025), the interiors in David Lynch’s films suggest that, “our environment is somehow theatrical, temporary, a dream – an expression of the subconscious.” Lynch, while working with production designers, “conceived of these rooms as spaces with every bit as muchContinue reading “Narrative Environments – Lynchian Set Design”
Mono No Aware and Ma
RELATED TERMS: Sabi and Wabi Sabi The human-environmental interactive dimensions of the design of narrative environments may be enhanced by a consideration of Japanese aesthetics expressed through design principles. Beginning in the Heian era (794-1185), the Japanese developed a distinct sense of aesthetic perception, including such experiences as mono no aware, ma and wabi sabi.Continue reading “Mono No Aware and Ma”
Visual Arts and Visual Media
RELATED TERMS: Mode and medium; The proper goal of sculpture and of all the visual arts, it might have been held at one time in the past, is the depiction of physical beauty. However, this universalistic horizon, as well as the horizon of critics and philosophers of the Enlightenment, are rendered problematic by the opacityContinue reading “Visual Arts and Visual Media”
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”
Distribution of the Sensible – Ranciere
RELATED TERMS: Agonism and avant-gardism; Agonistic Politics – Mouffe; Apparatus – Dispositif; Arendt; Avant-garde movements; Dissensus – Ranciere; Politics and the Political A narrative environment could be conceived of as a ‘distribution of the sensible’; or, if it is a political act, a disruption of a ‘distribution of the sensible’. Ranciere’s phrase, partage du sensible, isContinue reading “Distribution of the Sensible – Ranciere”
Dissensus – Ranciere
RELATED TERMS: Agon; Agonism and avant-gardism; Avant-garde movements; Defamiliarisation; Design of Narrative Environments; Distribution of the sensible – Ranciere; Methodology and Method; Modernism and avant-garde art practice; Politics and the Political Some designed narrative environments may be said to constitute a form of dissensus or, “a dissensual re-configuration of the common experience of the sensible,”Continue reading “Dissensus – Ranciere”
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