The Fishbowl

Vocabulary 1 – Welcome to the Couse

Individuate (google along with Gilbert Simondon): Gilbert Simondon theorized in which “Individuation is a process which never determines a definitive state, but only a temporary resolution to a set of evolutionary instabilities” (https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/introduction-to-simondon).

Activity: “Something done for pleasure or entertainment. especially one involving movement or an excursion” (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/activity#Noun).

Learning: ”learning is a process that results in a change in knowledge or behavior as a result of experience” (https://teaching.berkeley.edu/resources/learn/what-learning).

Society: “Society is made up of individuals who have agreed to work together for mutual benefit” (https://people.howstuffworks.com/what-is-society.htm).

Sociality: ”Sociality is a survival response to evolutionary pressures” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociality).

Unabated: ”It keeps on going without stopping or slowing down” (https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/unabated).

Archive: ”Kept to show the function of that person or organization”( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive).

Vocabulary 2 – Making Space

Focus: “To converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions”

Evoke:” To cause the manifestation of something”

Contemplate: “To think carefully about and accept the possibility of something happening”

Difference: “A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else”

Making: “Process of growth or development”

Designing: “Specification of an object, manifested by some agent”

Space: “The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate”

Social: “Interaction of the individual and the group”

Innovative: “Ahead of times”

Vocabulary 3 – Virtual Reality: Our Digital Escape

Reflect: “Embody or represent (something) in a faithful or appropriate way”

Repeat: To do again

Phrase: “written or spoken expression”

Select: “exclusively or fastidiously chosen”

Vocabulary 4 – Re-structuring text

Re-structure: “Change the organization of”

Create: “Bring into existence”

Value: “Importance given to something”

Share: “allow someone to use or have something you own”

Process: “series of events which produce a result”

Practice: “action rather than thought or idea”

Reflection: “Careful thoughts”

Solitude: “Seclusion or Isolation”

Learning: “learning is a process that results in a change in knowledge or behavior as a result of experience”

Vocabulary 5 – Sharing what we see when we read

Reading: “decoding symbols to derive meaning”

Interpret: “Make sense”

Process: “series of events which produce a result”

Hub: “Center of activity”

Network: “A group”

Become (google with Deleuze): “new way of being that is a function of influences”

Singularity: “A point at which a function takes an infinite value”

Difference: “A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else”

Connect: “To join together”

Destiny:” Predetermined course of events”

Vocabulary 6 – Question

Chaos: “Unordered state of matter”

Confusion: “Not quite sure what’s going on’

Embrace: “Completely accept something”

Resistance: “Refusal to accept”

Vocabulary 7 – Simulating a society

Platform: “hardware or software used to host an application. or service “

Momentous: “far-reaching importance”

Formation: “giving shape to something”

Dramatic: “Exciting and impressive”

Transform: “To change”

Understanding: “Grasp the full meaning of knowledge”

Mapping: “Associating one thing with another”

Simulate: “Create something similar”

Vocabulary 8 – Reading the other’s text

Immerse: Involve deeply

Deep: Rich and intense

Understanding: “Grasp the full meaning of knowledge”

Mode: The most frequent

Reading: “decoding symbols to derive meaning”

Vocabulary 9 – new forms of intimacy and friendship

Intimacy: “Closely acquainted”

Agency: “individual or object through which power is exerted”

Emotion: “internal state of being”

Creativity: “characteristics that allows a person to think outside of the box”

Self: “The subject of one’s own experience of phenomena; perception, emotions, thoughts”

Form: “Level of performance”

Friendship: “Having an easy or accepting relationship with something”

Vocabulary 10 – Theory of assemblages

Social: “Interaction of the individual and the group”

Ontology: “A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships”

Autonomy: “to act or function independently”

Entity: “That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit”

Assemblage: “A collection of things”

Flow: “Movement of things in a particular way”

Vocabulary 11 – Reassembling the social

Sift: “To separate or scatter”

Sort: “To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria”

Select: “exclusively or fastidiously chosen”

Assemble: “to put together”

Associate: “To spend time socially”

Emerge: “To become known”

Enter: “To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space”

Reveal: “to show and display that which was hidden”

Vocabulary 12 – Meeting once again

Aesthetics: “Appreciation of beauty”

Abstraction: “capture some kind of commonality between different instances”

Aphorism:” phrase conveying some principle of concept of thought”

Axiom: “A fundamental assumption that serves as a basis”