http://bananapeelproject.org/2009/12/23/making-sense-of-ethnography/ thoughts on technology and the politics of psychopharmacology Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:42:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://bananapeelproject.org/2009/12/23/making-sense-of-ethnography/#comment-727 katrina Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:02:24 +0000 http://bananapeelproject.org/2009/12/23/making-sense-of-ethnography/#comment-727 if I might pry: what exactly do you mean by representation, sense, and real in what you posted? I ask only because I'm wandering into similar questions to what you seem to be asking, but am unsure of the way in which you are using your terms, not sure if I'm using them in the same way. Exploring literature on visuality and space, I've been finding that there are many scholars for whom reality exists only in the collapse of the material and ideal, that representation involves a full embodied experience not one sense (sight) alone, and making sense and giving order are not isolatable one from the other. But for me, sense is not at the edge of things or representations, but is intimately bound to what defines things and representations. Why are representations more limited than words? Don't all representations transcend and fix simultaneously? This isn't a critique but honest curiosity as I struggle through my own thoughts and the flexibility of terminology. if I might pry: what exactly do you mean by representation, sense, and real in what you posted? I ask only because I’m wandering into similar questions to what you seem to be asking, but am unsure of the way in which you are using your terms, not sure if I’m using them in the same way. Exploring literature on visuality and space, I’ve been finding that there are many scholars for whom reality exists only in the collapse of the material and ideal, that representation involves a full embodied experience not one sense (sight) alone, and making sense and giving order are not isolatable one from the other. But for me, sense is not at the edge of things or representations, but is intimately bound to what defines things and representations. Why are representations more limited than words? Don’t all representations transcend and fix simultaneously? This isn’t a critique but honest curiosity as I struggle through my own thoughts and the flexibility of terminology.

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