I’m going to lay claim to the Stolterman and Manovich question with some quick answers that I hope to flesh out over the course of the semester! Stolterman comes from a phenomenological tradition. How do I know this? First, we asked him. Second, a great example comes to mind from his book Design Way in…
UPDATED: Now have backlogs for Sept 4 & Sept 6… The Sept 4th podcast is Erik’s lecture, Sept 6th is the Manovich discussion. I will try to get the other podcasts up this week. PODCASTS : http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~tdbowman/590_podcasts/
All that stuff that Jeff mentioned in Tuesday’s lecture about the sort of dialectic analysis that structuralists employ actually reminded me of something from my design workflow. It’s an ideation technique that an Industrial Designer friend of mine (“Dale”) showed me when we were collaborating on an museum exhibit design a few years back, although…
So I really got to thinking on Tuesday while we were discussing the magazines that fashion, like video games, or heroin (not necessarily different from video games) is much like an addiction. Our culture today is heavily dependent on “fixes” to help a person get through the day (see smoking figures. On a side note,…
Relation of phenomenology to hermeneutics. For the purposes of this class, you can confuse them. Hermeneutics originally started as a exercise in biblical exegesis (very accurate reading, getting it right). Philology emerged as a practice of linguistic study, history of linguistics, etc. Hermeneutics came about as a strategy to “closely read” the Bible in order…
