RELATED TERMS: Heidegger; “Deconstruction is inventive or it is nothing at all; it does not settle for methodical procedures, it opens up a passageway, it marches ahead and marks a trail; its writing is not only performative, it produces rules — other conventions — for new performativities and never installs itself in the theoretical assuranceContinue reading “Deconstruction – Derrida”
Category Archives: Theorists
Povinelli
RELATED TERMS: Critical Thinking; Deconstruction – Derrida; Entanglement; Hermeneutics; New Materialism; Ontological Turn; Posthumanism Since the beginning of the 21st century, Elizabeth Povinelli argues, critical theoretical discourses have been marked by a particular style and approach. They have shifted, she suggests, from hermeneutic and deconstructive methods of reading towards a set of methods of knowledgeContinue reading “Povinelli”
Theatre of Cruelty – Artaud
RELATED TERMS: Alienation Effect – Verfremdungseffekt; Avant-Garde Movements; Epic Theatre – Brecht; Performance and Performativity; Theatre; Tragic Theatre – Aristotle; Antonin Artaud, 1896-1948, wrote the extraordinary theoretical book, Le Théâtre et son double (The Theatre and Its Double) in 1938. Influenced by Balinese dancers he saw in Paris in the early 1930s, Artaud imagined a Western theatreContinue reading “Theatre of Cruelty – Artaud”
Sloterdijk
RELATED TERMS: Heidegger “Humanity becomes a political concept. Its members are no longer travellers on the ship of fools that is abstracted universalism, but workers on the consistently concrete and discrete project of a global immune design.” (Couture, 2016: 73) The work of German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk (1947-) has direct relevance for design practices. AsContinue reading “Sloterdijk”
Lefebvre
RELATED TERMS: The Everyday and Design; Historical materialism – Marxism; Cybernetics; Structuralism Henri Lefebvre is one of the core writers, along with Michel de Certeau, for examining, understanding and deploying social, spatial and environmental practices in a narrative environment. Lefebvre distinguished between three spatial spheres: the ‘perceived space’ of everyday social life; the ‘conceived space’Continue reading “Lefebvre”
Latour
RELATED TERMS: Actor-Network Theory Bruno Latour summarises concisely the necessity of considering at one and the same time the three interconnected dimensions or actantial fields of the design of narrative environments, that is, narrative (discourse), people (society) and environment (real), in the following sentence: “Is it our fault if the networks [of both the modernContinue reading “Latour”
Genealogy – Nietzsche
RELATED TERMS: Agonism and avant-gardism; Apparatus – Dispositif; Critical thinking; Historicism; Nihilism; Ontological designing; Philosophy Genealogy, as defined by Nietzsche, in as far as it is an approach to historicity, meaning-production and values, has great relevance for design practices, as it permits a particular kind of understanding of the limitations of historicism in understanding historicalContinue reading “Genealogy – Nietzsche”
Heidegger
RELATED TERMS: Arendt; The Everyday and Design; Lefebvre; Philosophy; Present-at-hand (Vorhanden) and Ready-to-hand (Zuhanden); Sloterdijk The work of Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) is of great relevance to design practices and to the analysis of designs as elements of material culture because it deals with spatio-temporal ways of being in the world and contains concepts such asContinue reading “Heidegger”
Epic Theatre – Brecht
RELATED TERMS: Alienation effect (Verfremdungseffekt); Antagonist; Audience; Avant-Garde Movements; Defamiliarisation; Design of Narrative Environments; Historical Materialism – Marxism; Protagonist; Theatre; Theatre of Cruelty – Artaud; Tragic theatre – Aristotle Theatrical devices may be of great value when considering the impacts, or rather the actantiality, of designs, whatever their character. In this context, it is wellContinue reading “Epic Theatre – Brecht”
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”
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