theory 
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800) Narrative is a fundamental means through which people live their lives
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781) Communication codes are learnt and culturally defined
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747) Law as a discourse framed by the world that it inhabits and creates
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721) Images do not embody information about their use
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690) The Reflective Practitioner: Choreography As Research In An Intercultural Context
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687) Frayling: into, through and for art and design
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641) Inside Out - Issues of interpretation in virtual heritage
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640) Barthes: Death of the Author
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617) Reflexive Modernisation: knowledgeable subjects able to reflect on their social conditions
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587) Spectacle as Show - not an inferior part of tradegy
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580) changing our footing in talk
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579) Ernest Boyers: Priorities of the Professoriate
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576) bystandering as a footing position
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573) Thick Conceptions of Practice: cognitive skills that give rise to contextualised beliefs
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560) topography of action: to rise above or drop below a field of experience
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539) ICT-Based Learning Environments: transmission or active exploration?
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536) discussion about culture anticipates and disseminates culture
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532) Types of Research in the Creative Arts and Design
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527) Bernstein: Horizontal Discourse and Vertical Discourses
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521) Design scholarship as an alternative form of research grounded in practice
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510) Self-Reflexivity: the natural sciences versus the human sciences
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495) A Depiction Of The Process Of Picture Making: Emergence Of A Meta-Subject
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481) Clive Wearing: procedural and declarative memories
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477) Constructivism and Online Education
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459) coalescing in the act of interpretation
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449) Wittgenstein's picture theory of meaning
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448) Differ
ance: formation of form
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447) Interaction Design: university & applied research centres
(426) Gestell: enframing and converting everything encountered
http://folksonomy.org.uk/?s=426
Utterance:
Through the notion of 'Gestell', Heidegger (1978) tried to grasp the essence of modern technology as 'enframing' and converting everything encountered natural, or human, into a reserve stock of resources to be harnessed and deployed for further deployment. ...[In this way digital] technologies are harnessed to convert concern into a resource that can be represented, formalised, calculated and made deployable for allowing, further representation and calculation of concern. Thus, through grid technologies, key aspects of human existence like care and concern become themselves objects of representation - 'things' that are representational substitutes for existence itself. In other words, one key activity (concern) that makes us humans gets converted into yet another of those resources that can be accumulated, stored, recombined and exchanged. New forms of risk management and grid technologies contribute to the relentless march of Gestell and confirm the looming danger of modern technology pointed out by Heidegger (1978): reality and life (in our case its expression through concern) get increasingly substituted by teleologically-mediated representations. What is 'real' is what technology is able to define and represent, which now includes concern in the form of calculable risk.
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©Professor Claudio Ciborra (London School of Economics and Political Science)
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Motivation:
Book: Heidegger, Martin. 1978 The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays, London, UK: Routledge. 0061319694
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413) Empiricism: failing to secure contingency
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406) post-traditional order contesting the hierarchy of legitimacy
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397) Reflexive Modernisation: Beyond Modernism & Postmodernism
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360) the mirror is both a utopia and a heterotopia
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344) Francis Bacon: misconceptions in the discovery of causes
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322) Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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205) Donald Schön: The Reflective Practitioner Model
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195) archaeology-poem: multiple registers
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203) Julia Kristeva: The Abject
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193) Defamiliarization and Making Strange
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191) suture: revelation of constructed nature
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178) insurrection of subjugated knowledges
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168) Donna Haraway: situated knowledges
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161) Historical Revisionism
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146) every utterance generates a response
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149) freemason: secular architect shaping the world
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150) freemason: utopic representations of an orderly society
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151) freemason: Solomon's Temple - classical order
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154) heteroglossia: multilanguagedness
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131) contingent product of contingently existing forces
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92) authenticity: authority of the object
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80) tends to perfection: nature
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63) information is a commodity and is properly controlled by market forces?
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61) Diachronic and synchronic
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3) Walter Benjamin: das passagen-werk / the arcades project
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38) Michel Foucault: Heterotopia
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40) Kevin Hetherington: Heterotopia & Social Ordering
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44) Henri Bergson: Tendencies and Composites
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45) readerly texts and writerly texts
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48) Deleuzian Memory of Sans Soleil
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