by the term action i mean activities that are consequential problematic, and undertaken for what is felt to be their own sake. the degree of action- its seriousness or realness-depends on how fully these properties are accentuated and is subject … Continue reading →

richard mc keon, student of John Dewey, from University of Chicago, created a map of philosophy and pointed out the fundamentals of philosophy with the article; philosophic semantics and philosophic inquiry. i got the chance to read this article last … Continue reading →

design processscenario, enactment, conceptualization, idea generation, brainstorming, project proposal. shape grammar, motion grammar.pattern (design) artefactshow do we define them?how do we name products?visual language, textual language, action languagelanguage: speaking, talking, writing, expressingspeaking, talking: voice of the product: ethos. talking: interacting … Continue reading →

Kenneth Burke in Nonsymbolic motion/symbolic action essay put action in a symbolic perspective. For Burke, action is symbolic, and action differentiated from motion when we name it. so it becomes and exists with the language (that is conventional and arbitrary.) … Continue reading →

william james in his ‘experience as activity’ essay generally talks about action and agency issues. After having a distinction between bare activitiy and complete activity, he asserts that the complete activites like creation and done by intention, and has a … Continue reading →

a link to istanbul bienal: http://www.iksv.org/bienal/english/

here is some of the search tools that use visualization and chunking/clustering. my favorite is the visual thesaurus… Grokker www.grokker.com Vivisimo vivisimo.com Clusty clusty.com KartOO www.kartoo.com NewsIsFree www.newsisfree.com Visual Thesaurus www.visualthesaurus.com

in defining your problem area, there is a three-step formula: topic: i am studying…………question: because i want to find out what/how/why ………………….significance: in order to help my reader understand…………………..[page56] we can classify research as pure research and applied research. in … Continue reading →

goffmann in his long article begins to read where the action is with an analysis of coin-tossing. it seems a little bir naive at the beginning, but just before the transition to the real life conditions we have the general … Continue reading →

starting with the notion of fateful occupational duties, action as a kind of self oriented evocation in ritualized form of the moral scene arising when such duties exercised. action consists of chancy tasks undertaken for their own sake. excitement characters … Continue reading →

on the one hand, character refers to what is essential, and unchanging about the individual-what is characteristic of him. on the other, it refers to attributes that can be generated and destroyed during fateful moments. in this latter view the … Continue reading →

goffman in the last section shifts his focus to the character and action.. he believes that people have primary and secondary capacities that is going to be exhibited under fateful conditions. by primary capacities he means behaviors revealed under the … Continue reading →