I have provided a small glossary / taxonomy of useful words and phrases that have been used during the learning journey. Some of these are listed below;
Dialectic
Dialectic (also dialectics and the dialectical method) is a method of argument for resolving disagreement that has been central to European and Indian philosophy since antiquity. The word dialectic originated in ancient Greece, and was made popular by Plato in the Socratic dialogues. The dialectical method is discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject, who wish to establish the truth of the matter guided by reasoned arguments.
(As per extract from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic - 02/03/2014)Diegesis
Diegesis is a style of fiction storytelling which presents an interior view of a world and is:
- that world itself experienced by the characters in situations and events of the narrative
- telling, recounting, as opposed to showing, enacting.[1]
In diegesis the narrator tells the story. The narrator presents the actions (and sometimes thoughts) of the characters to the readers or audience.
In contrast to mimesis
Diegesis (Greek διήγησις "narration") and mimesis (Greek μίμησις "imitation") have been contrasted since Plato's and Aristotle's times. Mimesis shows rather than tells, by means of action that is enacted. Diegesis is the telling of the story by a narrator. The narrator may speak as a particular character or may be the invisible narrator or even the all-knowing narrator who speaks from "outside" in the form of commenting on the action or the characters.
(As per extract from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diegesis - 02/03/2014)Primary sources
The term "Primary sources" refers to sources that are original materials. They are from the time period involved and have not been filtered through interpretation or evaluation. Primary sources are original materials on which other research is based. They are usually the first formal appearance of results in physical, print or electronic format. They present original thinking, report a discovery, or share new information.Simulacrum
Note: The definition of a primary source may vary depending upon the discipline or context.
Examples include:
• Artifacts (e.g. coins, plant specimens, fossils, furniture, tools, clothing, all from the time under study);
• Audio recordings (e.g. radio programs)
• Diaries;
• Internet communications on email, listservs;
• Interviews (e.g., oral histories, telephone, e-mail);
• Journal articles published in peer-reviewed publications;
• Letters;
• Newspaper articles written at the time;
• Original Documents (i.e. birth certificate, will, marriage license, trial transcript);
• Patents;
• Photographs
• Proceedings of Meetings, conferences and symposia;
• Records of organizations, government agencies (e.g. annual report, treaty, constitution, government document);
• Speeches;
• Survey Research (e.g., market surveys, public opinion polls);
• Video recordings (e.g. television programs);
• Works of art, architecture, literature, and music (e.g., paintings, sculptures, musical scores, buildings, novels, poems).
• Web site.
This is a frequently used term in contemporary art and comes from from Greek philosophy, from the time of Plato, which means a copy of a copy of an ideal form. It has become a fashionable word to use in postmodernist discourse, appearing regularly in documents of Jean Baudrillard and Gilles Deleuze.
More recently, the term has been revived in the context of arguments about the relationship between an original work of art and its replication. For Baudrillard the simulacrum takes precedence over the original, with the effect that the original is no longer relevant. The plural of Simulacrum is Simulacra.
For further reading, see;
Tate modern national archives reference to Simularcrum
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