RELATED TERMS: Diégèse and Diegesis Plato and Aristotle define literary and dramatic genres in terms of the form of enunciation. They distinguish between diegesis, reported speech which articulates the writer’s authorial voice, and mimesis, in which the writer speaks, as if directly, through the characters. This sense of diegesis differs from that developed by EtienneContinue reading “Mimesis and Diegesis”
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Narrative environments – Celia Pearce
RELATED TERMS: Artifactuality and Actuvirtuality; Design of Narrative Environments; Narrative Environments The following entry brings to attention a number of key themes for the design of narrative environments. They include: storytelling; social imaginaries; immersion; spatial narrative; experience design; illusion of authenticity; agency; identity; community; persistent community; participation; to live; to visit; guest; citizen; stranger; polity;Continue reading “Narrative environments – Celia Pearce”
Ethnomethodology
RELATED TERMS: Actor-Network Theory; Anthropology; Ethnography; Method and methodology; Sociology; Participants Ethnomethodology is an approach within sociology initiated by Harold Garfinkel (1984, 1967). It seeks to uncover the methods and social competence that people, as members of social groups, employ in constructing their sense of social reality. Ethnomethodology is mentioned by Bruno Latour (2005, fn.Continue reading “Ethnomethodology”
Agency
RELATED TERMS: Actantiality; Actor-Network Theory; Post-Humanism; De-centring the subject, situating the subject and distributing agency across a network From the perspective of design practice, the interest in ‘agency’ lies in how it may be conceived so that the action of designs over a prolonged period of time can be comprehended, once they have become partContinue reading “Agency”
Symbiocene
RELATED TERMS: Anthropocene – Capitalocene – Chthulucene; Plantationocene Glenn Albrecht (2021) argues that we must rapidly exit the Anthropocene, an era marked by its non-sustainability, its perverse resilience, its authoritarianism and its corrupt and destructive political economy. There can be no ‘good’ Anthropocene, he insists. To break with the Anthropocene, Albrecht suggests that a new foundation,Continue reading “Symbiocene”
User
RELATED TERMS: Actant; Actantiality; Lack, Loss and User-Centred Design Practices; Participant; Protagonist; In the understanding of design action and interaction being developed here, the term ‘user’ is situated in the context of the theory of actantiality. Actantiality is a theory of the situated and situational condition of any action. Actions are provisional: conditioned and conditional.Continue reading “User”
Intersectionality
RELATED TERMS: Afrofuturism; Afro-Pessimism; Critical Race Theory; Identity Politics; Whiteness Studies Beginning in the 1970s and continuing through the 1980s, critical legal scholars, such as Richard Delgado, Patricia Williams, Mari Matsuda and Alan Freeman, began publishing work that developed the discourse around race, power and law. Together, they advanced the idea that the law, ratherContinue reading “Intersectionality”
Cyborg Anthropology
RELATED TERMS: Anthropology; Actor-Network Theory; Ethnomethodology; Avatar A cyborg anthropologist looks at how humans and non human objects interact with each other, and how that changes culture. Another aspect of cyborg anthropology concerns how the self can be extended, doubled or multiplied, online, through identification with an avatar. This, in turn, opens to the studyContinue reading “Cyborg Anthropology”
Avatar
RELATED TERMS: The word avatar has a number of definitions, for example, it may mean the incarnation of a Hindu deity, especially Vishnu, in human or animal form; an incarnate divine teacher; an embodiment or manifestation, as of a quality or concept; a temporary manifestation or aspect of a continuing entity; or an icon, graphicContinue reading “Avatar”
Black Mountain College
RELATED TERMS: Bauhaus; Hochschule fur Gestaltung Black Mountain College was an experimental liberal arts college in Black Mountain, near Asheville, North Carolina. It was founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice and Theodore Dreier and other former faculty members of Rollins College in Florida. It was “the site of a crucial transatlantic dialogue between EuropeanContinue reading “Black Mountain College”
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