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signs/symbols
Greek σύμβολον mark, token, ticket, ‘tessera’, < σύν sym- prefix + root of βολή , βόλος a throw
Farside, Gary Larson.
Chauvet Cave paintings.
But what truly distinguishes the non-representational
research from others is a different orientation to the
temporality of knowledge, for non-representationalists
Vannini
Before
After
research methods:
procedures for
collecting material
research strategies:
procedures for the
treatment of data
research
methodologies: the
bodies of knowledge
that shape the above
two
7 principles
1. Life is movement
2. Anti-biographical and pre-individual
3. Practice, action and performance
4. Relational materialism
5. Animates rather than reports
6. Affective capacities of bodies
7. Ethics built on the craftsmanship of everyday life
1
life is
movement
Brian Brettschneider
@Climatologist49:
Q u a n t i t i e s ,
expiration dates,
cooking times, the
mood and and hunger
of the intended
recipient, and
thousands of other
factors are thrown
into the calculations
until the cook
arrives at a meal
that is often
mistakenly treated as
a relatively simple
outcome.
Keller Easterling
WGBH, “Happy
Birthday Julia Child!
A Rocking Tribute
To A Cooking
Legend.”
4
relational
materialism
Seeker, “Your Gut
Microbes Are
Controlling Your
Mind, Here’s What
You’ll Do For Them”
5
animates rather than
reports
@Ruben_Fro,
“Dissolving Realities
Vietnam #1.” “Slices of
street life, captured with
360 cameras in only a
couple of seconds, and
brought to life by a
proprietary Unity shader
in real time, specifically
created to render point
clouds in a cinematic
and immersive way.”
6
affective capacities
of bodies
rozzzafly,
“Surprised Kitty
(Original)”
7
ethics built on the
craftsmanship of
everyday life
Medium Design
There might be messages that incite The most resourceful, practical cooks know how to
or calm, but without having to make triangulate between the contents of their
declarations or organize refrigerator, their pantry, and the food
confrontation, the designer might preferences of those for whom they wish to cook.
also operate like the parent with Rather than cooking from a recipe, the mind clicks
squabbling children. The parent does through hundreds of possible combinations between
not try to parse the content of the half a cup of milk that will only last one more
argument but swiftly changes the day, two eggs, frozen peas, baking soda, cilantro
disposition of the context. They leaves, hot sauce, a half stick of butter, a
lower the temperature of the room, cheese rind, tomato paste, a tin of sardines, and
move a chair into the light, increase two bananas. Quantities, expiration dates, cooking
the blood sugar of one child, or times, the mood and and hunger of the intended
introduce a pet into the arms of recipient, and thousands of other factors are
another so that the chemistry of the thrown into the calculations until the cook
room no longer induces or supports arrives at a meal that is often mistakenly treated
violence. as a relatively simple outcome.
Keller Easterling
There might be messages that incite or calm, but without
having to make declarations or organize confrontation, the
designer might also operate like the parent with
Easterling