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Desire, Icon, Fetish, and Discrimination
Over the last couple of days, I’ve been mulling over the perception of quality in pop culture things. Starting from the base in Wood’s “How Fiction Works” (cannot get that book out of my way of understanding the world, now that it is there), that things with a “single register” are less rich to ‘read.’
I think that there is a connection in that notion to Bourdieu’s ‘doxa’ description (from Outline of a Theory of Practice) in that the use of a ’single register’ implies either a choice or an unawareness of the full range of possible registers. So, the producers of “America’s Got Talent,” for
Good Work in Design Work: Values, Process, and Understanding.
Introduction
It doesn’t take a lot of research to understand that design is a powerful tool in contemporary business thinking. Nor is it difficult to notice that design is increasingly central to an escalating number of parts of everyday life: more kinds of companies in more and more varied sorts of endeavors are using design, design processes, design partners, and design thinking in their work. And because design work has, in most of those applications, taken deep and considered understanding of the people who are going to use, inhabit, or experience what design makes, we tend to think that a broadening portfolio for design is a good thing. To most,
On practices
“The most rudimentary behavior must be determined both in relation to the real and present factors which condition it and in relation to a certain object, still to come, which it is trying to bring into being. This is what we call the project.”
Sartre, Search for a method, 1963
Introduction
I know that it is customary in talks of this nature to present some current, preferably path-breaking work. And we are doing one thing that is pretty cool, but at the moment its path is muddy, incompletely cleared, and god only knows where it is going.
But that weird place where you’ve got equal measures of “there is some
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research in and of Corporations (Studies in
Melissa Cefkin, Editor
The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Rick E. Robinson
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