The Fishbowl

Welcome to the Course
9/10/19

Gilbert Simondon
• French philosopher best known for his theory of individualism

9/12/19

Don Schon: The Reflective Practitioner
• Developed the concept of reflective practice
• Contributed to the theory of organizational learning
• Examined engineers, architects, managers, psychotherapists, and town planners
• Showed how professionals solve problems

9/13/19

Become (Deleuze)
• The process of becoming is a new way of being
• Function of influences

9/19/19

In his 1999 Reith Lectures, entitled ‘Runaway World’, the sociologist Anthony Giddens (please google) makes the following claim:
‘There is a global revolution going on in how we think of ourselves and how we form ties and connections with others.’
According to Giddens, new forms of intimacy are replacing older connections in three key areas of our lives: sex and love; parent-child relations; and friendship. He argues that these transformations are occurring ‘almost everywhere’, differing only in degree and the cultural context in which they take place.
• A British sociologist
• Known for theory of structuration
• Holistic view of modern societies
• Holistic: characterized by comprehension of the parts of something as intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole

9/21/19

Poem by Rabindranath Tagore (please google)

Where The Mind Is Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

• Originally composed in Bengali
• Originally titled “Prarthana”, meaning prayer
• Represents his vision of his country new and awakened

10/1/19

management of aesthetics of story telling

understanding of how and why some stories are more effective than others

10/4/19

"Reassembling the Social" is the title of Bruno Latour’s book (please google) which is an introduction of Actor-Network Theory. Please google.

Actor-Network Theory is an attempt that explains the process in which society is constantly reconfiguring

10/5/19

“In the 'world of immersion,' authorship is no longer the transmission of experience, but rather the construction of utterly personal experiences.” Brenda Laurel
• Laurel is a video game designer and researcher
• Advocate for diversity and inclusiveness in video games
• "Pioneer in developing virtual reality"
• Focuses on human-computer interaction

10/7/19

A favorite quote from Luce Irigaray's book “Sharing the World”:

“Our eyes are not capable of seeing, nor even contemplating, intimacy, at least not directly. They can only imagine something about intimacy from the light, the gestures, the words, that it radiates. But intimacy as such will remain invisible, irreducible to appropriation...” 

10/25/2019

"In the quiet corridors of academia, a new science has been emerging---one that speaks directly to the momentous events going on around it. For want of a better term, we call this new science the “science of networks.” And unlike the physics of subatomic particles or the large-scale structure of the universe, the science of networks is the science of the real world---the world of people, friendships, rumors, disease, fads, firms, and financial crises." (Duncan J. Watts).

• Sociologist and a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
• Formerly a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, New York City known for his work on small-world networks

10/26/2019

Reader-response theory
• focuses on the reader or audience reaction to a particular text
• the reader and their experience of a literary work

10/28/2019

"learning organization” by Peter Senge
• Group of people who are continually enhancing their capabilities to create what they want to create
• Peter Senge describes himself as an ‘idealistic pragmatist’
• The five disciplines he sees as central to learning organizations
○ Systems thinking
○ Personal mastery
○ Mental models
○ Building shared vision
○ Team learning

Three Men in a Boat is a famous 1889 poem by Jerome K. Jerome
•  English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat
•  "I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."

J. M. Coetzee
• Novelist, essayist, linguist, translator
• Recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature