Morophospace » Agency http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild Experiential aesthetics the mechanics of learning behaviour Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:11:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Agency, Artifact (Object) & Representation http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/2013/04/04/agency-artifact-object/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/2013/04/04/agency-artifact-object/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:12:15 +0000 Phil Devine http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/?p=1459

]]> http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/2013/04/04/agency-artifact-object/feed/ 0 Cultivation (Educating) of Individuals http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/2013/04/03/cultivation-of-individuals/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/2013/04/03/cultivation-of-individuals/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:06:26 +0000 Phil Devine http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/?p=1421 Arts: Representation (arts), the depiction and ethical concerns of construction in visual arts and literature.

Social Sciences: Social representation is a stock of values, ideas, beliefs, and practices that are shared among the members of groups and communities.

Science: Representation (psychology), a hypothetical ‘internal’ cognitive symbol that represents external reality.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation)

Agency of external form is related to ‘experiment’. The agency of external forms determine/results in representation. Representation then can result in the production of cultural artifacts (via objects in intellect), increasingly so within the digital domain (hence artifacts reject representation, as representation is subjective?). The digital domain is both representative of existent, and digital cultures, cultivated by both existent and digital artifacts. Learning / understanding is then related to the representation of artifacts; learning / understanding being demonstrated by production of artifacts, intellectual or existent, within the physical domain, or digital domain.

Are artifacts more numerous ‘apparent’ within the digital domain, and do artifacts in the digital domain appear to have greater powers of representation (related to collaboration and individual concern). So is, what is ‘apparent’, closer to representation? If so, artifacts in the digital domain must have closer relation to learning and understanding (by being apparent). The ‘agency’ of object must then be made apparent, by physico-psychical organization (experiment), and then demonstrated (or understood) by production of artifacts. Agency must then be made visible by ordering and re-ordering of artifacts ‘assemblages’, for both student and teacher (is this a whole new theory of education, or the emperor’s new clothes?).

]]> http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/2013/04/03/cultivation-of-individuals/feed/ 0 Agency of Information in Culture & Learning http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/2013/03/27/agency-of-information-in-culture-learning/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/2013/03/27/agency-of-information-in-culture-learning/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:00:51 +0000 Phil Devine http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/?p=1314 For my final assignment I intend investigate “Location & Idenity (Representation) within the Agency of 21st C learning”, this area of study directly relates to both ‘Culture’ and ‘Learning’ in the view that both are reliant on “external forms which have been objectified in the course of history” (Georg Simmel). This argument further relates to the Subject/Object debate within a Post-Human critique, and relates to the increasing objectification of learning. My final assignment will take a view on the increasing ‘ability’ of learning to act in the world, culture of learning, related to objectification.

“the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history” (Georg Simmel)

Representation has been an ongoing theme throughout my Tumblog. Representation of objects must give objects agency when related to understanding (therefore related to learning and culture), and representation must be a precursor to knowing, even though objective representation maybe rejected (or re-formed – re-visited) in favour of ‘new knowing’.

]]> http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/2013/03/27/agency-of-information-in-culture-learning/feed/ 0 Cognosphere – Agency of Information? http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/2013/03/26/cognosphere-agency-of-information/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/2013/03/26/cognosphere-agency-of-information/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:37:36 +0000 Phil Devine http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/?p=1298 How agency is acquired is important, can agency only be acquired by representation? I can see links to a Post-Human critique in this argument, a re-evaluation of connections between subject and object (interesting when seen in relation to intersubjectivity). This also asks the question, if ‘a thing’ has Agency, how does Agency re-interpret that ‘things’ existence. Can a ‘thing’, be endowed with Agency, that maybe greater than the agency of humans (?), and can this be interpreted as another manifestation of existence (related to life)?


(http://jofish.com/galleries/2008/mum%20birthday%20trip/index.htm)

Then how is, how an ‘thing’ is represented, as well as it’s attached powers of communication, connectivity and fluidity, important to learning? A re-interpretation of what it means to be existent, related to the apparent possibly? So, is it down to the subject to change it’s view of interpretation of existence, rather than the object being constructed in the image of the subjects concern? That touches on (religion and) God complex…

]]> http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/2013/03/26/cognosphere-agency-of-information/feed/ 0 Location & Idenity within the Agency of 21st C learning http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/2013/03/23/location-idenity-within-the-agency-of-the-21st-c-learner/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/2013/03/23/location-idenity-within-the-agency-of-the-21st-c-learner/#comments Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:20:21 +0000 Phil Devine http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/phild/?p=1272 > All those lego bricks talking to each other… and talking to us. Lego bricks as a metaphor for possible learning objects (things)! The image above I think can be interpreted as a sea of available learning possibilities, being assembled and re-assembled. Agency in learning, being apparent, within the ability of learning, and learning [...]]]>

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All those lego bricks talking to each other… and talking to us. Lego bricks as a metaphor for possible learning objects (things)! The image above I think can be interpreted as a sea of available learning possibilities, being assembled and re-assembled. Agency in learning, being apparent, within the ability of learning, and learning ‘objects’ to act in the world – a sort of interpretation (or re-consideration) of cognosphere.

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