Between You and Me, I Never Really Cared About Anyone Else to Begin with
2021
2021
Written as a fictional dialogue between two people, this thesis is an auto-ethnographical text about the author’s struggle to speak, to maintain conversations with others and the resulting implications on their creative practise as a designer. The persona of the writer oftentimes fails to speak his mind, turns silent in encounters with other people and frequently withdraws back into their thoughts. Throughout this dialogue, however, they are able to explain how their practise still allows them to find ways to communicate.
For them, in any creational process, there are always two kinds of conversation at play: one between the creator and the creation, and one between the creation and whoever uses or engages with it. The author utilises notions of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Émile Benveniste and Roland Barthes to prove their theory of a work that inherently speaks for itself, proposes such outlooks on interacting being necessary to keep consciousness of the self and explains how they always exist, despite being difficult to heed at times.
They subsequently realise that the main reason for their troubles in speaking is that, ultimately, the person they seek to communicate with is an undefined “you”, the “you” that they are creating for, and not the “you” of the other person in a direct encounter. Even though they believe in Martin Heidegger’s definition of truth to enable them to convey their believes through their work, do they conclusively come to see that the work will always stand between them and a “you” that is the other person.
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For them, in any creational process, there are always two kinds of conversation at play: one between the creator and the creation, and one between the creation and whoever uses or engages with it. The author utilises notions of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Émile Benveniste and Roland Barthes to prove their theory of a work that inherently speaks for itself, proposes such outlooks on interacting being necessary to keep consciousness of the self and explains how they always exist, despite being difficult to heed at times.
They subsequently realise that the main reason for their troubles in speaking is that, ultimately, the person they seek to communicate with is an undefined “you”, the “you” that they are creating for, and not the “you” of the other person in a direct encounter. Even though they believe in Martin Heidegger’s definition of truth to enable them to convey their believes through their work, do they conclusively come to see that the work will always stand between them and a “you” that is the other person.
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