GOOGLE SEARCHES - Sandra Chu

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Gilbert Simondon - a French philosopher that theorized about individuation, saying that the individual self is an effect of individuation, rather than a cause.

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Derrida - Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher best known for his theory of deconstruction, which has to do with deconstructing concepts, ideas, and texts and interpreting them in new ways, and to not just blindly accept the unnatural or the socially accepted norms.

(Here's an interesting video I found on him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKJlSY0DBBA)

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Anthony Giddens - a British sociologist, known for his theory of reflexivity, which has to do with reflecting upon one's work, thus changing your own perspective. He believed in reflexive modernity, believing that society is becoming more self-aware, thus also becoming more reflexive.

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Donald Schon was a philosopher and professor at M.I.T. who wrote “The Reflective Practitioner.” This book covers how reflective practice can aid professionals in learning from their experiments and experiences.

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Deleuze - Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher. One of his ideas were of "becoming," where two things create a becoming and, by interacting, create something like a symbiotic unit.

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Anthony Giddens and Runaway World - this book focuses on how globalization is reshaping our lives, showing how our interdependence directly affects our cultures, traditions, families, and politics.

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Deleuze and Guattari - co--authors of the book, "A Thousand Plateaus," they explore their Assemblage theory, where assemblages that seem to be whole can actually be taken apart and put back together on a separate system and still work.

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Manuel DeLanda - a Mexican-American philosopher that builds on the theories of Deleuze and Guattari. In his book "Assemblage Theory (Speculative Realism)," he builds on the original Assemblage Theory and shows how it can be applied to history, science, and mathematics.

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Rabindranath Tagore - he was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, who created poems, songs, and art that reshaped Bengali literature and music.

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The aesthetics of management storytelling - has to do with how and why some stories are more effective than other stories, and how aesthetic preferences can be a factor. Our social meeting exercise is based on this.

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Ante-narrative - the storytelling that happens before the narrative happens, as well as the storytelling of what may happen in the future

Pre-individual - the aftermath of individuation, which also allows for future individuations to happen

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Bruno Latour’s ("Reassembling the Social" author) Actor-Network Theory - the idea that all factors involved in a social situation are just as important, meaning the inanimate objects, ideas, or processes are just as valuable as the humans they support in the social situation