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DISCLAIMER: This is a collection of terms and definitions generated during class and is to be used for in class conversations only. Students are also permitted to use these definitions in casual conversation when in a Seattle coffee shop in the late 1980s. Use outside of these contexts is not recommended and will void your warranty.

Wüsching

  • Movement real time, it's like wooshy.

Ideology

  • Unknown, Knowns
  • "Unthinking" (Too broad for Alan)
  • Something that is assumed before the discussion begins

Entropy

  • The 2nd law of thermodynamics
    • The tendency from something to go from being order to disorder
  • "Information" is not created
  • Shannon's Information Theory, specifically used as a measure of "Information".

Memory

  • "Information Storage" (after Flusser)
  • "Information"
  • "Artifacts" (salient artifacts?)

Hegelian

  • Onward and upward forever.
  • History is going somewhere! Things are getting better.
  • Coffee shop usage, in contrast to Postmodern idea that things just "go". Not up or better ... just going.
  • y = m * x + b where (m > 0) <= hegel

Aesthetic

  • (See ideology)
  • Aesthetic arises out of ... um.
  • "The Packaging"
  • "of Beauty", Alan, 2014
  • gestalt -
  • intentionally, subjectively ordered (organized)?
  • Negative Entropy

Expressive (vs. Affected or Effected)

  • A super-modernist idea that everybody after AE is mocking.
  • An old useless term, based on the idea that beauty exists and can be recognized.
  • Tied to emotion and motion.
  • Related to or evoking emotion.
  • "Affected" vs. effected
  • Tied to the impulsive.
  • Ordered in a "human" way.
  • (yeah, just see aesthetic)

Material

  • What is the "material here"?
  • What is the "material" of photography?
  • What is the "medium" ... uh mixed.

Ground (against Figure) - framing

  • The context where the "content" is situated <= This is the right answer.
  • Negative space
  • The aesthetic context
  • The setting
  • How it is situated
  • Background

History

  • What you should delete after browsing.
  • An uninterrupted chain of memories that ... what was I saying?

Monument

  • Objects that serve exclusively as memory supports, solved the problem of "hard" objects that "lose" their "memory".

Artifact

  • An unintentional monument (see above)

Ontology

  • "On the Nature of Being"
  • e.g. Can we even know what it is really like to be something else?
  • e.g. Why do we like to look at a live map of the wind?
  • e.g. Why is "real-time" more compelling than static?

Epistemology

  • The study of how we "know" (and understand Truth).
  • e.g. Do we ever really know what is true?
    • Plato has an opinion about this, and thus has an epistemological viewpoint.

Phenomenology

  • Husserl's Phenomenology
  • Truth can only be reduced to our experience of it
  • Things can't be reduced farther than it
  • "I don't know, but I know what I feel."

Truthiness

Sciency

  • Has the appearance of science / objectivity
  • The objective, scientific equivalent of Truthy

Objective Knowledge & Subjective Experience

  • See above.

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