Katherine,
Good topic. I would check:
Peter Wagner (1995) Reading Iconotexts. From Swift to the French revolution.
London: Reaktion Books ISBN: 0-948462-71-x
It treats 'pictures as encoded visual discourse'.
Kind regards,
Karel.
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>Hi Jurgen
>
>Lately I've been wondering something similar myself. In my thesis I'm
>arguing that a large collection of government emblems amounts to a
>visual archive and that this archive contains discourses (using
>discourses in the Foucauldian sense). My argument rests on the premise
>that discourses are not exclusively contained in language, but can be
>found in all archival records, including visual records. It also
>presupposes that the emblems are records of past communication and that
>it is possible to glean changes in the discourse. So long the objects in
>your study are portrayed as records of communication in and of
>themselves (and not only mediums for other communication) I guess the
>same argument could apply.
>
>I'd be interested to hear what other listers think of this.
>
>Best
>
>Katherine
>
>References
>Foucault, Michel 'On the Ways of Writing History,' Essential Works of
>Foucault 19541984 Volume 2: Aesthetics p. 289.
>
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>Katherine Hepworth
>PhD Candidate
>National Institute of Design Research
>Swinburne University of Technology
>
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>Victoria 3181 Australia
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>>>> Jurgen Faust <[log in to unmask]> 21/04/09 3:30 PM >>>
>Hi All,
>
>I would like to know whether there is anybody who would support a
>statement that
>designers also maintain discourses on an object level? That means that
>designers generate
>objects; solutions to verify, change or transform existing solutions in
>better once?
>I am currently exploring the idea that textual matters in design
>comprehend also design
>solutions as objects. I am using the current transformation of the
>existing i-phone we see,
>when we look at all the proposed changes in competitive products.
>
>
>Jurgen Faust
>
>Prof. DIGITAL MEDIA
>MHMK MUENCHEN
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