Comments on: Bruno Latour on the Expanding Meaning of the Word “Design” http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/02/bruno-latour-on-the-expanding-meaning-of-the-word-design/ media & film, design, philosophy, politics Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:47:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: joneilortiz http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/02/bruno-latour-on-the-expanding-meaning-of-the-word-design/comment-page-1/#comment-103 joneilortiz Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:33:43 +0000 http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/?p=952#comment-103 Sounds like the Scholastics debating Aristotelian physics (via the medieval pseudo-Aristotelian work 'Liber sex principiorum') - e.g. the doctrine that the place a body is in is the inner surface of the container of that body (--their favorite example being a vessel filled with water, where the 'place' of the water is the inner surface of the vessel, which 'circumscribes' the water). (Aristotle, Physics, Bk. 4, ch. 4, 210b35-211a2) ... Sounds like the Scholastics debating Aristotelian physics (via the medieval pseudo-Aristotelian work 'Liber sex principiorum') - e.g. the doctrine that the place a body is in is the inner surface of the container of that body (–their favorite example being a vessel filled with water, where the 'place' of the water is the inner surface of the vessel, which 'circumscribes' the water). (Aristotle, Physics, Bk. 4, ch. 4, 210b35-211a2) …

]]> By: Klaus http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/02/bruno-latour-on-the-expanding-meaning-of-the-word-design/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Klaus Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:25:07 +0000 http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/?p=952#comment-100 New Bruno Latour and Peter Sloterdijk at Harvard GSD (via Klaustoon): <a href="http://klaustoon.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/bruno-latour-and-peter-sloterdijk-ii/" rel="nofollow">http://klaustoon.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/bruno...</a> New Bruno Latour and Peter Sloterdijk at Harvard GSD (via Klaustoon): http://klaustoon.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/bruno...

]]> By: Wednesday Round Up #54 « Neuroanthropology http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/02/bruno-latour-on-the-expanding-meaning-of-the-word-design/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Wednesday Round Up #54 « Neuroanthropology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:39:23 +0000 http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/?p=952#comment-66 [...] occluded, Bruno Latour on the Expanding Meaning of the Word “Design” “the connotations of design imply a certain ‘modesty’: it’s less about construction and [...] [...] occluded, Bruno Latour on the Expanding Meaning of the Word “Design” “the connotations of design imply a certain ‘modesty’: it’s less about construction and [...]

]]> By: joneilortiz http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/02/bruno-latour-on-the-expanding-meaning-of-the-word-design/comment-page-1/#comment-55 joneilortiz Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:18:54 +0000 http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/?p=952#comment-55 It's one thing to 'trace a network' to expose a strategically hidden economic process, and something else entirely to represent the world itself as a network. <br><br>I agree with the liberating, intrinsically political power of 'bringing to light' something that was hidden, and I agree that there is a valuable psychological dimension to the demystification of capitalist processes, but at the same time a more robust network theory would have to move past the exposition, and mapping, of interdependent phenomena. --And your paper, which I very much enjoyed, is clearly attempting just that! It's one thing to 'trace a network' to expose a strategically hidden economic process, and something else entirely to represent the world itself as a network.

I agree with the liberating, intrinsically political power of 'bringing to light' something that was hidden, and I agree that there is a valuable psychological dimension to the demystification of capitalist processes, but at the same time a more robust network theory would have to move past the exposition, and mapping, of interdependent phenomena. –And your paper, which I very much enjoyed, is clearly attempting just that!

]]> By: Y http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/02/bruno-latour-on-the-expanding-meaning-of-the-word-design/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Y Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:19:15 +0000 http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/?p=952#comment-54 Not really new ideas : Jean Baudrillard already commented on such a tendency.<br>Close to Latourian ideas about tracing networks, what may be new is a reflection about designing networks as a way to rebuild a political project. See : <a href="http://yannickrumpala.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/knowledge-and-praxis-of-networks-as-a-political-project/" rel="nofollow">http://yannickrumpala.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/...</a> Not really new ideas : Jean Baudrillard already commented on such a tendency.
Close to Latourian ideas about tracing networks, what may be new is a reflection about designing networks as a way to rebuild a political project. See : http://yannickrumpala.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/...

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