barebones communication

Shot at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark 2008. Exhibition by Candice Breitz. 

“This means that what affects us from the current passively pregiven background is not a completely empty something, some datum or other (we have no really exact word for it) as yet entirely without sense, a datum absolutely unfamiliar to us. On the contrary, unfamiliarity is at the same time always a mode of familiarity.”

Edmund Husserl: Experience and Judgment,  revised and edited by Ludwig Landgrebe, translated by James S. Churchill and Karl Ameriks, Routledge & Kegan Paul,London, UK 1973, page 37.

Library Thing.  

More on pitstops.

 Photograph shot by the blog author.

Are these the bare bones? 

Yes, they certainly are. These are the bare bones of an ostrich. The struthio camelus is the largest living bird in the world. Originates in Africa. But it can’t fly, can it? It runs fast, though.

An “ostrich” is also the label of a person who refuses to face reality and accept facts. And a way to get your head chopped off if you are not careful as a photographer.

But is it even a photograph of the barebones bare bones? Well, we’ll see about that  In a while. Right now I am in the process of preparing a couple of posts on what I have, so far, labeled the notebook on phenomenology. You will be amazed how useful phenomenology is for understanding communication. And using it.

And here are some tasks for you to engage in - while you wait. Please elaborate on

a) parts and wholes in the picture

b) identity in manifolds

c) presence and absence 

And by the way, what are the connotations of this picture (semiology)? And how would you mentally close it (gestalt closure)? So all at once we speak of semiology, gestalt psychology and phenomenogy within the same universe. As a combined instrument of understanding communication. And for doing it.

Unless you want to bury your head in the sand that is (The context begged for this one, sorry).

Good luck with it.

I’ll be back

 Ostrich shot by the blog author.