Is my house something more than just the place I live in ?
Alternative title: Shifting between - metaphors
If you think you're normal, you probably have a corner in your house where you have hidden all your abnormalities and looks like this image at the end of this text.
Is the house the reflection of oneself?
Look carefully in all of the corners, the drawers, open every closet, maybe there's some kind of dust hiding your secret sides you would be so ashamed to share with anyone. Off course you feel comfortable, but why don't you take a look then?
-Why is everyone hiding away all that shit and pretending everything is clear? Can't they see they will just come back at you?
-- a December update --
So! (What I've learnt today) (I had written the above a couple of months ago)
Replacing the why with the --HOW
How is it happening that when people stop finding functions for the things they use-d , they just put them aside in a corner, in a box, or they throw them in the trash, not caring where that trash is going to end.
This moment.
The critical moment when the transformation happens and something looses its function.
Function is in the mind of the beholder.
This moment when the dust gathers all around the never opened closets and corners of a house.
Is the house something more than what we live in?
Is it the place where someone else is also living?
Why if I stop seeing use in an object should I be able just to throw it in a bin where I don't know its destination or whose job is to take care of?
(Oppss It's hard to get rid of the why)(I guess it's good though in order to be counter intuitive, but just as a starting point, not more. First you notice, then you find out HOW it works. WHO)
How does it happen that one stops seeing the function ?
It does not do what it's supposed to do.
It doesn't do what I bought it for!
This pot is made to prevent food from sticking on the steel.
But it has other attributes you can still benefit from.
You can warm water to make your honey more fluid again. - But other pots can do more than this
-But the manual says that once it wears off you can't use it any more so you have to throw it away! immediately!
Inspired by this comment that came from an article by Akrich, "rigid technologies don’t translate successfully from the North to the South" (Akrich 1992, The De-scription of technical objects) , I sure have to ask you some questions.
Can you eat rice with only your hands? Rice not sticky but with sauce.
Can you (more examples here)
Can you imagine ..
Sure you can!
Who is the person who sees the function and who decides what is function-less ?
What is going to happen to the function-less object?
Should we do something about it?
For whom does it work?
How to transfer the knowledge then ?
If you think you're normal, you probably have a corner in your house where you have hidden all your abnormalities and looks like this image at the end of this text.
Is the house the reflection of oneself?
Look carefully in all of the corners, the drawers, open every closet, maybe there's some kind of dust hiding your secret sides you would be so ashamed to share with anyone. Off course you feel comfortable, but why don't you take a look then?
-Why is everyone hiding away all that shit and pretending everything is clear? Can't they see they will just come back at you?
-- a December update --
So! (What I've learnt today) (I had written the above a couple of months ago)
Replacing the why with the --HOW
How is it happening that when people stop finding functions for the things they use-d , they just put them aside in a corner, in a box, or they throw them in the trash, not caring where that trash is going to end.
This moment.
The critical moment when the transformation happens and something looses its function.
Function is in the mind of the beholder.
This moment when the dust gathers all around the never opened closets and corners of a house.
Is the house something more than what we live in?
Is it the place where someone else is also living?
Why if I stop seeing use in an object should I be able just to throw it in a bin where I don't know its destination or whose job is to take care of?
(Oppss It's hard to get rid of the why)(I guess it's good though in order to be counter intuitive, but just as a starting point, not more. First you notice, then you find out HOW it works. WHO)
How does it happen that one stops seeing the function ?
It does not do what it's supposed to do.
It doesn't do what I bought it for!
This pot is made to prevent food from sticking on the steel.
But it has other attributes you can still benefit from.
You can warm water to make your honey more fluid again. - But other pots can do more than this
-But the manual says that once it wears off you can't use it any more so you have to throw it away! immediately!
Inspired by this comment that came from an article by Akrich, "rigid technologies don’t translate successfully from the North to the South" (Akrich 1992, The De-scription of technical objects) , I sure have to ask you some questions.
Can you eat rice with only your hands? Rice not sticky but with sauce.
Can you (more examples here)
Can you imagine ..
Sure you can!
Who is the person who sees the function and who decides what is function-less ?
What is going to happen to the function-less object?
Should we do something about it?
For whom does it work?
How to transfer the knowledge then ?
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