https://mikechiasson.ca.transforms.ca/ 2026-10-25T03:32:15+00:00 https://mikechiasson.ca.transforms.ca/ https://mikechiasson.ca.transforms.ca/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2026-10-06T18:35:01+00:00 mchiasson (mchiasson@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca.transforms.ca/hannah_arendt?rev=1791311701&do=diff Hannah Arendt's work focuses primarily on how individuals and collectives can think and act in ways that escape the social and political conditions that inhibit ethical and imaginative thinking and action. Her work emerges out of the tragedy and chaos of World War II and the holocaust, having escaped as a Jewish woman to the United States. text/html 2026-09-03T04:23:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca.transforms.ca/?image=wiki%3Adokuwiki.svg&ns=wiki&rev=1788409408&tab_details=history&media_do=diff&do=media <img src="https://mikechiasson.ca.transforms.ca/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg?w=500&amp;h=500&amp;tok=30ccdf" alt="dokuwiki.svg" loading="lazy" width="500" height="500" /> text/html 2024-12-04T19:39:01+00:00 mchiasson (mchiasson@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca.transforms.ca/news?rev=1733341141&do=diff text/html 2024-12-04T19:38:10+00:00 mchiasson (mchiasson@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca.transforms.ca/blog:2024:1204_design_paper_outline?rev=1733341090&do=diff Design Paper Outline Some initial ideas swirl around the metaphysics of design; using the Wikipedia entry, an examination of the fundamental categories into human understanding. (see metaphysics) If design is fundamentally about a object, process, or system to serve some kind of purpose (see text/html 2024-12-04T19:37:36+00:00 mchiasson (mchiasson@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca.transforms.ca/readings:coyne_1995?rev=1733341056&do=diff Enlightenment thinking of rationalitaion and the valorization of the indivdual -- ok? ([Coyne, 1995, p. 2](zotero://select/groups/5700439/items/4BLYV8T8)) AI implications This first account of disruption, this technology-driven rhetoric, has most force where we hold to the philosophical position of ra- tionalism or Enlightenment thinking, with its valorization of the individual, principle, and reason. Another characterization of this account is to describe it as modern, continuing the Enlighten… text/html 2024-12-04T19:36:21+00:00 mchiasson (mchiasson@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca.transforms.ca/readings?rev=1733340981&do=diff text/html 2024-12-04T19:12:06+00:00 mchiasson (mchiasson@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca.transforms.ca/design?rev=1733339526&do=diff Design A focal point for a range of controversies, in terms of: * “what design is” * how it is done * who is in charge of both the process and outcomes * and what is its purpose. Design also has a double aspect in that the same questions asked of it can also be asked of what it produces and renders. text/html 2024-12-04T19:02:11+00:00 mchiasson (mchiasson@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca.transforms.ca/metaphysics?rev=1733338931&do=diff From Wikapedia: The beginning of Aristotle's Metaphysics, one of the foundational texts of the discipline Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study of mind-independent features of the world, text/html 2024-12-04T19:01:12+00:00 mchiasson (mchiasson@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca.transforms.ca/blog:2024:metaphysics?rev=1733338872&do=diff text/html 2024-11-20T21:16:50+00:00 mchiasson (mchiasson@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca.transforms.ca/blog:2024:1120_experience_and_technological_design:who_where_when_and_why?rev=1732137410&do=diff Participation and Technological Design: Dominant and Alternative Leaps Across the Who, Where, When and Why Who, how and where people are invited to discuss (and influence) technological design rests ultimately on varying and competing assumptions about value and values. These assumed values, always-loosely justified leaps to what is valued, prompt various leaps to processes and procedures that will achieve these values, and to human participation. In any case, these values and procedural mean…