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Individuation:

According to Gilbert Simondon, a French philosopher of individuation, individuation shows that there is a state of stability and metastability for a person.“By better understanding our relationship with the technical objects fashioned to regulate our existence in the world, we create for ourselves the possibility of a new idea of what it means to be human.”

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Deconstruction:

According to Jacques Derrida, who originated the meaning of “deconstruction”, it is an approach to understand the relationships between text and its meaning. This method questions the fundamental conceptual distinctions. Due to this creation, Derrida has had an enormous impact on intellectual life around the world.

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Don Schon: The Reflective Practitioner

A practitioner who examines research of experience, interaction and reflection. According to Don Schon, he defines his reflective practice as the study by which professionals become aware of their utter knowledge base and learn from their personal experience.

Don Schon is “a philosopher and professor who developed the concept of reflective practice and contributed to the theory of organizational learning.”

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Gilles Delezue - Become

Gilles Delezue is a French philosopher that wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. According to Deleuze, “the process of becoming” is a new way of being that is a function of influences rather than resemblances. This process is one of removing the element from its original purpose and bringing about new ones.

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-Deleuze and Guattari

Guattari and Delezue wrote a number of pieces together. One of the pieces they came up with together is the Assemblage Theory. According to Guattari and Delezue, the theory provides a framework for analyzing “social complexity by emphasizing fluidity, exchangeability, and multiple functionalities.” It ends up being a more realistic way of characterizing large extended social formation like states or regulatory agencies.

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Manuel DeLanda

Manuel DeLanda is a writer, artist and philosopher who built on the Theory of Assemblage. This theory can go beyond its original structure. According to DeLanda, shows how the concept can be applied to “economic, linguistic, and military history as well as to metaphysics, science, and mathematics.”

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Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore is a Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter. He was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 with his book Gitanjali, Song Offerings. Tagore also introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature. In one of his poems, “Where The Mind is Without Fear”, it overall is about what would go through someone’s mind if a they were not feared of being wrong.

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“Sharing the world” by Luce Irigaray – This novel discusses how it remains almost impossible to identify another outside of our own world. The author questions the validity of the "sameness" that sits at the root of Western culture. Irigaray uses the word "Otherness" to represent the same values by which we are ourselves defined and thus we remain in "sameness'.

Self-reflection- The thought about one's character, actions, and motives.

Participative observation- A research technique to gain access into and acceptance in a social world by culture or group in order to obtain understanding about the specific society.

Symbolic interaction- Analyzes society by addressing the subjective meanings that people possess with objects, events, and behaviors.

Auto-ethnography- Qualitative research in which an author uses self-reflection based on personal experiences.

Dichotomous thinking- Evaluate one's personal qualities in extreme and/or black-or-white categories.

Structures and structuring- Construct or arrange according to what is given.

Interpretation- An understanding towards something.

Sharing thoughts and mental processes- An operation that affects mental contents.

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Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman – a novel that examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This has brought major changes in all aspects of the human condition and our society we are living in today.

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Recapping methodology of the fishbowl

Participant observation – Gains a familiarity based on a group of people.

Social Construction of Reality – A theory of knowledge based on interactions with other people.

Symbolic Interactionism – A social behavior that focuses on the individual instead of the society.

Action Research – Changes of an individual is made through actions made. EX: researching

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Science of networks

Duncan J. Watts – Watts is a sociologist and researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City. He is known for his research on social networks and collective dynamics that have appeared in many journals.

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What is your metaphor?

- Reader-response theory – Focuses on the reader and their experiences based on literature in order to help the individual use for their own work.