Fatih Kursat Ozenc

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 pure research you are focusing on abstract ideas, conceptual study. this may or may not [...]

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 idea of phases of action: squaring off, determination, closure, settlement.. consequentiality and fatefulness have just [...]

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 display, the by-products of practical gambles, of serious fateful scenes, become in the case of [...]

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 individual can act so as to determine the traits that will thereafter be his; he [...]

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 consequential but not problematic situations. under the consequential and problematic conditions a second set of [...]

action is to be found wherever the individual knowingly takes consequential chances perceived as avoidable.ordinarily, action will not be founnd during the weekday work routine ath home or on the job. page 194 chance is not sought out, but also carved out. beginning with a boy’s chance taking, we move on to consequentiality; from there [...]

i like prologues, it is the chance where you can speculate or& stimulate your potential reader’s mind. goffman begins where the action is with a prologue:“to be on the wire is life, the rest is waiting.” -karl wallenda goffman as much as i understood uses ‘naive’ life sections to understand the action. beginnning with the [...]

erving goffman’s ‘interaction ritual’ consists of six articles that explore the face to face behavior in interaction. i am going to focus on the sixth article ‘where the action is’. it is the one that talks about the action, and character; an enormously nice match with my themes…yesterday when we were chatting with nassim, we [...]