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”
Category Archives: Theorists
Tragic Theatre – Aristotle
RELATED TERMS: Analepsis and Prolepsis; Arendt; Epic theatre – Brecht; Mimesis and Diegesis; Story (fabula) and Plot (sjuzet); Theatre; Theatre of Cruelty; The importance of tragic theatre for design practices is threefold. First, it places great importance on plot construction and the effects upon the audience that such plotting can achieve. Second, it emphasisesContinue reading “Tragic Theatre – Aristotle”
Arendt
RELATED TERMS: Heidegger; Critical Thinking See also essay: Arendt, Phenomenology and the Design of Narrative Environments Why are the writings of Hannah Arendt, 1906-1975, important for design practices? They are important because she focuses on the active life in its many aspects: we labour, we work, we act and we think or judge, as sheContinue reading “Arendt”
Things
RELATED TERMS: Collecting; Defamiliarisation; Events; Material Culture; New Materialism; Representation; Tangled Hierarchy and Strange Loop “the thing really names less an object than a particular subject-object relation.” (Brown, 2001: 4) “Thing theory is at its best … when it focuses on this sense of failure, or partial failure, to name or to classify. Thing theoryContinue reading “Things”
Agonistic Politics – Mouffe
RELATED TERMS: Arendt; Focalisation; Politics and the Political A Greimasian approach to narrative environments emphasises actantiality, as a complex field of inter-related, systemic or networked inter-actions involving actants of many different kinds, from conventional characters to various kinds of artefactual entities such as climate change and religious symbolism. Nevertheless, there still remains the problem ofContinue reading “Agonistic Politics – Mouffe”
Actantial Model – Greimas
RELATED TERMS: Actant; Actantiality; Actor-Network Theory; Semiotic Square; Human actantiality Joanna Kwiat (2008: 43) suggests that the actantial model of narrative structure proposed by Greimas (1983) drew on at least four theories: Levi-Strauss’ theory of opposition, which states that a given concept A is impossible to comprehend without the equal and opposite concept Not A, and how A necessarilyContinue reading “Actantial Model – Greimas”
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