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management of aesthetics of story telling
- understanding why something could be effective
Aesthetics: a set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in art

ANTE-NARRATIVE- retrospective narrative is linked to living story- antenarrative
PRE-INDIVIDUAL (please google both words) - "e individual, whose being is always relative to the pre-individual out of which it is formed, is not 'one', but 'more than one' - it requires that the individual's being is continually "out of phase with itself."

Reassembling the social- "fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'.
- Book by Bruno Latour

Brenda Laurel- She is an advocate for diversity and inclusiveness in video games, a "pioneer in developing virtual reality", a public speaker and an academic.
“In the 'world of immersion,' authorship is no longer the transmission of experience, but rather the construction of utterly personal experiences.”

Self-reflection- capacity of humans to exercise introspection and to attempt to learn more about their fundamental nature and essence.
Participative observation- research technique in anthropology and sociology characterized by the effort of an investigator to gain entrance into and social acceptance by a foreign culture or alien group so as better to attain a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure of the society.
Symbolic interaction- a micro-level theory that focuses on the relationships among individuals within a society
Auto-ethnography- qualitative research in which an author uses self-reflection and writing to explore anecdotal and personal experience and connect this autobiographical story to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings.
Dichotomous thinking- evaluate one's personal qualities in extreme, black-or-white categories.
Structures and structuring- the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex., construct or arrange according to a plan; give a pattern or organization to.
Interpretation - interpretation is an assignment of meaning to the symbols of a formal language
Sharing thoughts and mental process- sharing ideas or thoughts with others what you are thinking, interchangeably for all the things that individuals can do with their minds.

Luce Irigaray's- Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist.

Zygmunt Bauman:
- sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of Poland by a political purge in 1968 engineered by the Communist government of the Polish People's Republic and forced to give up his Polish citizenship to move to Israel

participant observation- "a research technique in anthropology and sociology characterized by the effort of an investigator to gain entrance into and social acceptance by a foreign culture or alien group so as better to attain a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure of the society"

Symbolic Interactionism-"the view of social behavior that emphasizes linguistic or gestural communication and its subjective understanding, especially the role of language in the formation of the child as a social being."

Action Research - " philosophy and methodology of research generally applied in the social sciences. It seeks transformative change through the simultaneous process of taking action and doing research, which are linked together by critical reflection."

Conversation- a talk, especially an informal one, between two or more people, in which news and ideas are exchanged.

Three Men in a Boat is a famous 1889 poem by Jerome K. Jerome- "book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide"
J. M. Coetzee- "John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African–born novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature"
"learning organization” by Peter Senge- "Peter Senge’s vision of a learning organization as a group of people who are continually enhancing their capabilities to create what they want to create has been deeply influential"

John L. Casti- author, mathematician, and entrepreneur

NON-COOPERATION- failure or refusal to cooperate, especially as a form of protest.