scholarly journals Di-vision/double vision

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
1969 ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Suzie Attiwill
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Binary Relation ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Double Vision ◽  
Interior Decoration ◽  
Conference Theme ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Thinking Differently

The conference theme ‘Between excess and austerity’ indicates a division which has shaped the discipline of interior design during the twentieth century. This paper is the outcome of a desire to open up this binary relation which continually dogs the practiceof interior design. The writings of Gilles Deleuze, in particular his attempt to ‘overturn Platonism’, are used as a tool to lever and open up possibilities for thinking differently. The immediate effect is that in between excess and austerity one encounters an ‘and’ – excess and austerity – hence the title of the paper ‘di-vision/ double vision’. Rather than between or either/or, it is both. This produces a blurring of vision which problematises the distinction made between interior design and interior decoration based on questions of excess and austerity as one equated with ornamentation versus the essentialism of a minimal aesthetic. This paper considers three familiar modernist surfaces from the twentieth century. Looking through glasses provided by the writings of Deleuze, the Platonic nature of the surfaces is apparent but so too are other ways of viewing these surfaces – division becomes di-vision or double vision and the possibilities for other ways of thinking and doing proliferate. The question of excess and austerity shifts from one of ‘to decorate or not?’ to one where the binary is blurred and the between becomes ‘and’ rather than a between of moderation. This involves an epistemological shift from a search for essences and ideals to an encounter with surfaces where meaning and events happen in which the proliferating intensity of life can be both austere and excessive.

Designing Interiors

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciano Crespi
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Industrialised Countries ◽  
Theoretical Reflection ◽  
The Way

The following is a theoretical reflection about the re-development of existing spaces. First, various changes in the way we live worldwide are considered, especially in industrialised countries. Then a process that spans from research to design is proposed to identify those actions required to reach an innovative response to the problem at hand. The second part of chapter illustrates a series of possible design strategies collected from the interior design work of past masters and contemporary designers. The goal is to offer a possible reading of certain important examples, providing an inventory, by definition an incomplete one, of design approaches, ways of thinking, and practices. Sometimes there is a common thread, sometimes not.

Review: Donna J Haraway, Manifestly Haraway: The Cyborg Manifesto, The Companion Species Manifesto, Companions in Conversation (with Cary Wolfe)

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 245-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Latimer
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Companion Species ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Thinking Differently ◽  
Post Humanism

In this review of Donna J Haraway’s book, Manifestly Haraway, that brings together The Cyborg Manifesto, The Companion Species Manifesto and Companions in Conversation (with Cary Wolfe), the author aims to show how Haraway’s work taken together is inspiring and revolutionary, offering us a basis for thinking differently about how we can intervene in dominant power relations in ways that are not simply critical but constructive of new ways of doing and being a social scientist. Like Foucault before her, Haraway offers not just exceptional tropes to think with – the cyborg, the companion species – but practices, ways of thinking and writing and relating, through which to make knowledge, and remake worlds. Making kin, becoming-with – not post-humanism but compost – these are the messages of her manifestos for doing our theorizing and our researching differently.

Critiques and Integrations of Phenomenology

2018 ◽  
pp. 87-95
Author(s):  
Federico Leoni
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Spatial Structures ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Phenomenology played a central role in twentieth-century philosophy. But, from the second half of the century, many alternative philosophical movements emerged. Despite their radical criticism of phenomenology, they regularly touched upon themes that had been originally propounded by phenomenology itself. This is true of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze. At the basis of their approaches, there is the need for a new version of the transcendental, the idea of an impure transcendental, and the intuition of a non-transcendental structure of the transcendental, which they all name “difference.” Phenomenology could draw useful insights from these perspectives: e.g., a more continuous view of the range of psychopathological experiences; a more exact comprehension of the different temporal and spatial structures of psychopathological worlds, as the internal possibilities and infinitesimal variations of the transcendental; and a more critical way of thinking through the structure of institutions and the normativity that dominates them.

Immanence and Deterritorialization

1998 ◽  
pp. 137-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Günzel
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Academic Philosophy ◽  
The Impact

In academic philosophy the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari are still treated as curiosities and their importance for philosophical discussions is not recognized. In order to remedy this, I demonstrate how the very concept of philosophy expounded by the two contributes to philosophical thinking at the end of the twentieth century while also providing a possible line of thought for the next millenium. To do this, I first emphasize the influence of Deleuze's thinking, while also indicating the impact Guattari had on him. This account will therefore show Deleuze's attempts before Guattari to concieve of a non-dialectic philosophy of becoming. I will turn to rethink this approach given the influence of Guattari and his anti-psychoanalytic analysis of territorial processes. The result is a conception of philosophical activity as an act of 'becoming minor'.

Fundamentalism or Tradition

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Modern Context ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The One

Tradition, secularization and fundamentalism—all three categories are contested, yet in their contestation, they shape our sensibilities and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. The discussion around the mutually implicated meanings of the “secular” and “fundamentalism” bring to the foreground more than ever, and in a way unprecedented in the pre-modern context, the question of what it means to think and live as Tradition. The Orthodox theologians of the twentieth century, in particular, have always emphasized Tradition not as a dead letter but as a living presence of the Holy Spirit. But how can we discern when Tradition as living discernment is not fundamentalism? And what does it mean to think as a Tradition and live in Tradition when surrounded by something like the “secular”? The essays in this volume continue both the interrogation of the categories of the “secular” and “fundamentalism,” all the while either implicitly or explicitly exploring ways of thinking about tradition in relation to these interrogations. In this interrogation, however, one witnesses a consensus that whatever the secular or fundamentalism may mean, it is not Tradition, which is historical, particularistic, in motion, ambiguous and pluralistic, while simultaneously not being relativistic. If the wider debates about the secular and fundamentalism seem interminable and often frustrating, perhaps the real contribution of those discussions is a clearer sense of what it means to live and think like—to be as Tradition.

The Immediate Realism of Léon Noël

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-189
Author(s):  
Gaven Kerr ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
Important Contributor ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Epistemological Position ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Epistemological Realism ◽  
Etienne Gilson

After the emergence of the neo-Thomist movement in the early twentieth century, the question of how best to present Aquinas’s latent epistemological realism came to the fore. Léon Noël was an important contributor to this area of neo-Thomism, but his work has unfortunately been eclipsed by that of other more recognizable authors such as Etienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain. Noël argued that Aquinas’s realism is a form of immediate realism that recognizes the challenge of modern representationalist epistemologies but does not succumb to non-realist ways of thinking. Hence Noël presented immediate realism as an epistemological position that is inspired by Aquinas but also capable of addressing philosophical concerns that emerged after his death. In this article I present Noël’s view as interesting in its own right and capable of engaging with contemporary non-Thomist trends in epistemology.

Philosophical reimaginings of educational places and policy: Through the metaphor of a wardrobe

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Alerby ◽  
Sonja Arndt ◽  
Susanne Westman
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Life World ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
Chronicles Of Narnia ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Witch

The aim of this paper is to challenge the physical and conceptual boundaries of educational places and spaces with the use of metaphor: the story of Professor Kirke’s magic wardrobe in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis (1950) . By explicating and theorising the concerns that arise, we provoke diverse ways of thinking about the complexities of shifting, expanding, constantly evolving educational spaces and places. In our theorisations, we draw on the philosophy of the life-world through Maurice Merleau-Ponty, on a post-structural approach through Julia Kristeva’s work, and on the new-materialist perspective of Gilles Deleuze. As these three philosophical perspectives draw upon different basic assumptions about humans and the world, they also illuminate different aspects of a variety of phenomena and concepts, which we elaborate on in this paper to reach a more comprehensive understanding of educational spaces and places. Our argument arises from philosophical engagements with the story of the Pevensie siblings’ transformation – and transportation – to Narnia through the wardrobe, with notions of educational openings and opportunities, to explore possibilities for reimagining the conceptions and realities of places and spaces in education. To conclude, citizens of today, including children, students, teachers, politicians and researchers, need to discuss basic assumptions for education and policy to reimagine the entangled complexities of educational spaces and places.

scholarly journals Research on the Application of Chinese Traditional Elements in Contemporary Interior Design

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Chen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Interior Decoration ◽  
Current Application ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Development Path ◽  
Cultural Connotation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Art Design

China has a long history of history and culture, and it has gathered a variety of cultural elements and symbols in the long history. The cultural connotation and spiritual heritage presented by traditional Chinese decorative elements provide a source and motivation for the innovative development of the modern decoration industry. Therefore, drawing on traditional elements to carry out innovative exploration of the art design has become an important outlet for the development of the industry. This article aims at exploring a sustainable development path for China’s art design field by analyzing the current application of traditional Chinese elements in contemporary interior decoration design.

scholarly journals ‘A New Order is Being Created’: Domestic Modernism in 1930s Britain

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-428
Author(s):  
Daniel Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
New Order ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Standards Of Living

This article addresses the attempts in Britain in the 1930s to integrate modernist aesthetics with the home. A number of initiatives during this period were directed towards improving both standards of living and the public's taste: arising from exposure to continental modernism (Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier) and with a fervent belief in the democratisation of the living space, innovators such as Wells Coates, Jack and Molly Pritchard, and Maxwell Fry sought to re-invent the home for the twentieth century. The results were often short-lived, and in some cases, abject failures. Yet the negotiations that these designers, architects, and visionaries made between high-minded aesthetics and the practicalities of quotidian British life reveal much about standards of taste during the 1930s. This article takes two case studies in detail: The Lawn Road Flats – the Isokon Building – in Hampstead, London, and the activities of the Design and Industries Association (DIA). In doing so, I chart the ways in which interior design developed in Britain during the decade before the outbreak of World War Two, and explore how small-scale, short-lived activities in this period laid the foundations for a flowering of new modes of living post-1945.

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