About me
- Ornamental Hermit
- Psychology student focusing on cognitive neuroscience and psychoanalysis
- Interested in (but not limited to) cursed/dark philosophy, occultism and aesthetics
“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”
contact
- Telegram: https://t.me/claroscuro
On the one hand, some believe there should be a Cartesian separation between a subject who studies and an object to be studied. This epistemology of separation demands minimal interference with the object of study. The epistemology of interaction, on the other hand, assumes that to gain knowledge about something "out there" you have to interact with it, even at the cost of changing it. In traditional research, when there is interaction between the subject and the object, it is controlled, as in the case of physicists interacting with matter, or it is restrained, as in the case of ethnographers unavoidably interacting with the objects of observation during a field visit. Designing something is obviously incompatible with an epistemology of separation because its purpose is always to change—by design, so to speak—but it is also incompatible with controlled interaction because it is too complex, uncontrolled, and specific. https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2015/a-personal-perspective-on-research-through-design
