Sunday, January 14, 2007

The specific phenomenon this research project will explore is constituted at various overlapping,horizontally conceived aspects. In speaking if horizontal constitution,I am attempting to move beyond the notion of hierarchical constitution suggested by the notion of construction according to levels of meaning,of operation. I mean to imply that the various aspects of the subject/subject matter overlap,they imply each other,and that none is primary to the other in terms of significance or of constitution in time. None comes before the other. This understanding of phenomena would seem to be central to the our mode of investigation as inspired by particular understanding of being,by particular forms of ontology.

One aspect of what I am exploring is centred on questions of perception. Visual perception and its relation to cognitive perception. The relationship between the act of seeing and the act of knowing. And the manner in which these relationships are constituted in relation to/by the experience of movement in space. How does our movement in space,illuminating what we see and the sequence in which we see it,influence what we think,and what we understand and how it is understood?
Here,we shall enter into dialogue with theories of perception and of the relationship between perception and the construction of human subjective and intersubjective worlds. As well as conceptions of the relationship between embodiment and understanding,as constituted,for example,in phenomenology and existentialism.

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