by admin | Jul 3, 2024
The term provoke derives from pro-vocare, to call forward, to challenge; to incite, to stir up, to arouse to a feeling, to quicken, to excite. A strong vocative text tends to provoke actions. It is action sensitive, opening-up the realm of the ethical. For example, a...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
Roland Barthes uses the terms studium and punctum when he poses the question: what it is that distinguishes a photograph from a mere snapshot? He uses the word studium to refer to the interest we may have in photographs. Studium is the interest we have when we open a...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
The radical reduction consists of focusing on the way that a phenomenon gives itself as itself, while applying the epoché to all senses of subjectivity or agency. The radical reduction censures out consciousness, subjectivity, or the person that constitutes the...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
The existential theme of Mitwelt and relationality may guide our reflection to ask how self and others are experienced with respect to the phenomenon that is being studied. To explore relational aspects of a phenomenon is to ask: How are people or things connected?...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
The term revoke means to recall, to bring back, to rescind. Revoking our words is to go back on our word—not to betray them, but to return to those conditions before the word fixed meaning and form to them. To abrogate the cognitive claims that words have made on us,...
