I was a little bit shocked by the post-structuralism. What is it talking about? There’s no self? Yes, I am constructing myself when I was writing this post. I want myself doesn’t sound stupid, I don’t want anyone knows that I haven’t read Jeff’s reading for this week. 🙂 But that is me, isn’t it?…
I was wondering if anyone else made the connection between post structuralism and reflective design. I personally see alot of similarities and overlaps. I guess it makes sense, considering both have roots in critical theory. The playful transgression of existing rule systems (post structuralism) seems to be a great way for designers and users to…
from: http://www.strategy-business.com/li/leadingideas/li00051  What companies need, therefore, is a new approach to demand creation that actually enables — make that forces — a company to be what it says it is. To borrow the phrase architect Jon Jerde made famous, that discipline is placemaking. Places are what provide the primary means for companies to demonstrate exactly…
Certain aspects of a post-structuralist perspective are very cohesive and useful for analysis.  But how can post-structuralism prematurely claim we cannot discover truth about the world without stating this as its discovered truth?  Perhaps this might be perceived as a play on words, but doesn’t every theory attempting to explain the world indulge itself in some proclamation of…
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I think I would like more think about things in structuralism approach. And from this account, I thought, there is no totally new things or innovative things. Hypothetically, human have 100 English words in total to compose a sentence in order to describe an object. Based on the permutation and combination, there are definitely limit…
“Wa, look at these mp3 players, they looks just like iPod, and the price is as same as iPod too!…” “But they are not belongs good brand! no brand at all!” “Who cares! Do you know that now in China every mp4 players looks just like iPhone, same interface, touch screen, the difference is that…
I think more about my paper and try to narrow down the topic today. For now, the rough title is: Design mobile phone faceplates: appearance as experience and interaction. In this paper, I would like to focus on how mobile phone faceplates improve user experience. Mobile phone faceplates in Asia are designed by the following…
I feel completely absurd writing a blog post to introduce poststructuralism, and indeed, I am *not* doing that here. Rather, I will do two things. I will try to restate the summary I made at the end of class today, and I will refer to the wikipedia entry on poststructuralism, which I think is not…
For a brief moment in class today, I toyed with the idea (in my head) of asking just what if there were a way of measuring language games so that one could arguably state that language game A is better than language game B, what could this measurement be? If we by some miracle could…
When we were thinking of examples of a pair of things that we normally don’t necessarily associate with each other that we could apply cultural logic to, as defined as -a broad pattern, set of practices, or set of rules that crosses many levels of a culture I thought of the comparison of the two…
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