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Excellent site, keep up the good work
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Knut, there is much so much good info
on your site, plus photo illustrations; I feel
like a boy with a raging sweet tooth in a
candy store. And, I’ve plenty of cash to
buy everything I want. 
Decisions, decisions
decisions…
Jerome
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I just came across your blog and wanted to drop you a note telling you how impressed I was with the information you have posted here. I also have a web site & blog about advertising so I know I’m talking about when I say your site is top-notch! Keep up the great work, you are providing a great resource on the Internet here!
Maggy from: http://www.soloadsonly.com
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Very interesting website, Knut. We share an interest in phenomenology and gestalt psychology. I just discovered your blog, while pursuing issues pertaining to Herbert Spiegelberg. Excellent photographs – and apart from your art, you are a fine teacher.
I’m a physician – have written on phenomenology and medicine for decades, was fortunate to meet my own teacher and now friend and collaborator Oz Wiggens at the New School in New York in the early 1970’s – through Oz I met Maurice Natanson, Ed Casey, etc – and also he opened doors to Spiegelberg, Gurwitsch, Straus and many, many others… Today, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine (PEHM) http://www.peh-med.com is a “pluralogue” – an experiment – I am working nowadays on two other projects – one in global telemedicine (So we at PEHM are a “supporting partner” for “Health Information for all 2015 http://www.HIFA2015.org) and also the globalization of a “Decade of the Mind” 2010-2020. As these move forward, or not…. Well I certainly need a muse for communication. “Barebonescommunication” … Yes!
Best to you, Michael Schwartz.
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Hi
My name is Mary Edwards and I’m a doctoral student at the University of Florida studying educational technology. My cohort of doctoral students is creating resources pages using google groups and I’m designing a page about phenomenology and the phenomenological approach to research.
I really like your venn representation of phenomenology and request permission to add it to my page (image attached as a bitmap for your reference). Our google group site is limited to Ed Tech doc students and requires an administratively distributed password.
Thanks for your consideration.
Mary
Mary Edwards, MLIS
Distance Learning Librarian and Liaison
Health Science Center Libraries
University of Florida
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Hi Knut.
Thanks for your thoughtful response to my questions regarding your opinion on hitthebitch.dk.
I agree that the target group for the campaign could be various groups, and the effect will differ depending on whether it is kids, young people, their parents or simply the public debate.
In my opinion the campaign is succesful on the matter of drawing attention to the problem (violent relationships) as it’s provocative language and the paradox between the language (violence) and the message (stop violence).
This use of ironi and twisted metamessages works great on me personally as it makes me notice the problem and reflect on both the actual problem, the media and, most of all, on the communication conflicts inherent in the use of irony and ambiguity; generally and all the more so when when violence is used (ironically) in the name of a good cause.
It also leads me to reflect on the moral dilemma; do we as (interactive) consumers take part in the responsibility for the object we consume – is it wrong to laugh about violence even though the laughter is part of the means to make us think.
These are in my opinion important questions to ask yourself, not in order to get an exact answer right away but to develop an your set of values, in life as in language.
In this matter the campaign is succesful as it makes me think – but I’m not sure, I’m the precise target group and my moral/lingvistic reflections will not help girls or boys living in fear and violence.
I agree with you that the catharsis effect is an illusion and I doubt that the game will prevent violent relationships.
However as a part of a larger campaign with lots of info, counselling, role models and other alternative media genres I think it is a good eyecatcher/opener and hopefully a way to break the silence.
I think breaking the tabou is a neccessary beginning in the attempt to change a negative behavior and if not solve, then minimize a potentially fatal problem in society; a challenge which will take years and years.
I look forward to work with the campaign and all the questions it raises – I hope to get the point of view of the organisation behind – to hear their ambitions with the effect of campaign and their response to the critique.
Thanks again for your time, interest and wise words.
Best,
Nanna
Ello,
I’m a Graphic Design and Photography student at Columbia College Chicago. I stumbled across your blog while researching Roland Barthes, for a History of Photography paper. Your posts are extremely helpful! And after spending some time here I really appreciate what your doing and I’m impressed with all the useful information. Keep up the excellent work!
Many thanks for your time!
Monica
Dear Monica
Thank you very much for your most encouraging comment. I am glad that you like the blog, and have found use for some of the information in here.
I wish you the best of luck with your study in design and photography. And again: many thanks for your kind comment.
Did you see my Berlin Black and White bog, by the way. Lately, I have spend most of my time practicing visual communication, and not only talking about it
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I find the last thing to be very important.
All the best
Knut
Please visit: http://berlinblackandwhite.com/