after i read a few critiques of vision as a metaphor for scientific
knowing, i decided to write several papers expunging every visually based
word. the papers may not have been very successful products (although the
members of my dissertation committee liked them), but the exercise was
extremely valuable in that it required that i pay attention to how the
language of vision filters my thinking, especially as a safely distant
viewer.
trying to say what we think we mean without recourse to the traditional
tools of authority might generate new understandings (almost wrote
insights there!) about how meanings are constructed.
kathie
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start all over.
start all over.
we need to make new symbols,
make new signs,
make a new language,
with these we'll redefine the world
and start all over.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^tracy chapman:new beginning
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Katherine_Goff who-is-at ceo.cudenver.edu
http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~katherine_goff/index.html