Category Archives: telling stories

fiction for truth

Capturing the embodied nature of knowledge work: Test #1

What our bodies are like and how they function in the world…structure the very concepts we can use to think. – Lakoff and Johnson \”I think, therefore I am\” Descartes said all those years ago, and we still trudge along … Continue reading

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Inspirations

from WMMNA\’s post on The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions runs until 10 January 2010 at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

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manufactured feelings

that\’s what this lady does for a living \”i think many times, what they\’re buying is what they wish their lives would be..\”

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subverting functions and unofficial narratives

When an object’s use is subverted, it is as though the protagonist is cheating the system and deriving more pleasure than is his or her due… (Dunne & Raby, The Secret Life of Electronic Objects) That’s somehow too simplistic. There … Continue reading

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