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(800) Narrative is a fundamental means through which people live their lives
(781) Communication codes are learnt and culturally defined
(747) Law as a discourse framed by the world that it inhabits and creates
(721) Images do not embody information about their use
(690) The Reflective Practitioner: Choreography As Research In An Intercultural Context
(687) Frayling: into, through and for art and design
(641) Inside Out - Issues of interpretation in virtual heritage
(640) Barthes: Death of the Author
(617) Reflexive Modernisation: knowledgeable subjects able to reflect on their social conditions
(587) Spectacle as Show - not an inferior part of tradegy
(580) changing our footing in talk
(579) Ernest Boyers: Priorities of the Professoriate
(576) bystandering as a footing position
(573) Thick Conceptions of Practice: cognitive skills that give rise to contextualised beliefs
(560) topography of action: to rise above or drop below a field of experience
(539) ICT-Based Learning Environments: transmission or active exploration?
(536) discussion about culture anticipates and disseminates culture
(532) Types of Research in the Creative Arts and Design
(527) Bernstein: Horizontal Discourse and Vertical Discourses
(521) Design scholarship as an alternative form of research grounded in practice
(510) Self-Reflexivity: the natural sciences versus the human sciences
(495) A Depiction Of The Process Of Picture Making: Emergence Of A Meta-Subject
(481) Clive Wearing: procedural and declarative memories
(477) Constructivism and Online Education
(459) coalescing in the act of interpretation
(449) Wittgenstein's picture theory of meaning
(448) Differance: formation of form
(447) Interaction Design: university & applied research centres
(426) Gestell: enframing and converting everything encountered
(413) Empiricism: failing to secure contingency
(406) post-traditional order contesting the hierarchy of legitimacy
(397) Reflexive Modernisation: Beyond Modernism & Postmodernism
(360) the mirror is both a utopia and a heterotopia
(344) Francis Bacon: misconceptions in the discovery of causes
(322) Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
(205) Donald Schön: The Reflective Practitioner Model
(210) deus ex machina
(195) archaeology-poem: multiple registers
(203) Julia Kristeva: The Abject
(193) Defamiliarization and Making Strange
(191) suture: revelation of constructed nature
(178) insurrection of subjugated knowledges
(168) Donna Haraway: situated knowledges
(161) Historical Revisionism
(146) every utterance generates a response
(149) freemason: secular architect shaping the world


(150) freemason: utopic representations of an orderly society

http://folksonomy.org.uk/?s=150
Simon Perkins (20-01-2004)
Utterance:
Freemasonry during this period [early eighteenth century] was tolerant, enlightened, generally secular yet morally aware, and concerned with issues to do with scientific discovery. This science was used to legitimate a vision of social order as based in natural order. Freemasonry provided not only a vehicle for the scientists to lecture and socialize; it also offered the means through which these economic and political interests might find common support. It played a part in the civilizing of civil society. Newtonian science not only provided legitimacy through the symbolism of masonry for a higher, morally regulated, perfectible society, but also the means through which perfection might be achieved. The lodges were utopic representations of an orderly society by which self-interested bourgeois individuals might be shaped into moral subjects not only through their veneration of the symbolic order found in both nature and architecture, and their acceptance of rank and hierarchy, but also through their own freedom as moral subject sand as part of a group that perceived itself as a moral elect. Through such means the unhewn stranger could be shaped into a trustworthy brother. Such a process could not but help promote the development of the shared political and economic interests that we have all come to associate with freemasonry in more recent times.
- ©Hetherington: Heterotopia & Social Ordering, p.88
Motivation:
Book: Hetherington, Kevin. 1997 The badlands of modernity: heterotopia and social ordering, London, UK: Routledge.


(151) freemason: Solomon's Temple - classical order
(154) heteroglossia: multilanguagedness
(131) contingent product of contingently existing forces
(92) authenticity: authority of the object
(80) tends to perfection: nature
(63) information is a commodity and is properly controlled by market forces?
(61) Diachronic and synchronic
(3) Walter Benjamin: das passagen-werk / the arcades project
(38) Michel Foucault: Heterotopia
(40) Kevin Hetherington: Heterotopia & Social Ordering
(44) Henri Bergson: Tendencies and Composites
(45) readerly texts and writerly texts
(48) Deleuzian Memory of Sans Soleil


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