Phd Candidate in Design
[Karl Marx, William James, John Dewey, Ervin Goffman, Kenneth Burke]To act is to take action. Action means motion or change that ground in the nature of things. (Aristotle) For Burke, action is the human body in conscious or purposive motion. Having a consciousness and purpose requires free will and choice. Without choice, it is only [...]
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. Persuasion can be attained by two mediums, text and speech, so rhetoric is by definition the art of speaking and writing effectively. Rhetoric has three types based on Aristotle’s ‘Rhetoric’; juridical, epideictic, and deliberative. Juridical is dealing with the past; epideictic with the present, and deliberative with the future. [...]
(Aristotle – Poetics, Brenda Laurel – Computers as Theatre, Shakespeare -Hamlet) Human beings like to imitate. Imitation begins with the imitation of nature. Human beings also like to learn; to understand the outside world. These are the two motivations of poetry according to Aristotle. Poetry covers different modes of imitation, like tragedy, comedy, epic poetry, [...]
christopher alexander in the timeless way of buildings tries to define patterns for the design auidence, especially for architecture. thinking about design, it is really hard to talk about a language. first of all design needs to define subject matter in every project it deals with. secondly every project comes with its own domain. if [...]
Aristotle, Plato, Santayana Aristotle gives the definition of love as an excess of feeling, towards one person in one of the passages of Ethics. He begins his argument by categorizing love as feeling that is as much towards lifeless objects, and friendship. The latter one, friendship means mutual love, involves choice, and choice is driven [...]