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be//log consists of three sections:
Quotes
In this sections, we publish and look for innovative, inspiring and insightful quotes from all fields and times – again with short explanations.
We are happy to accept ideas and examples with short explanations and the author’s/contributor’s name. After editorial review, we may then publish them. Please send your contributions to: info@be-design.info
Stupid words and stupid sayings
Peculiar misunderstandings and, at times, terrible fashions have sneaked into our language, and, in so doing, determine our thoughts without us being really aware of it. The words are simply used, used up, as if they wouldn’t constitute a problem – but, thinking is very much rooted in discourse, and this discourse predominantly takes place in the form of language. This is why we need to think about these stupidities and buzzwords and why they should be published together with short reflections.
We are happy to accept ideas and examples with short explanations and the author’s/contributor’s name. After editorial review, we may then publish them. Please send your contributions to: info@be-design.info
Anagrams
Anagrams (originally from Greek ἀναγράφειν anagráphein = rewrite) are words formed by rearranging the letters of a different word. Surprisingly often, anagrams are like a mirror – or distorting mirror – in relation to the source word; sometimes as a paradox, other times as enlightenment. There is obviously something the old and the newly formed words have in common. Anagrams are a source of linguistic imagination, they engender associations and they are simply a great type of game.
“The text is a forest in which the reader is the hunter.”
Forests are complex. Something beautiful or scary may lurk and suddenly materialise behind shrubs or trees. There are no predefined paths, instead the ways through the forests are winding and, in a good sense, bewildering. One is confused and, when … Weiterlesen
mother – thermo
For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. No woman should say, ‘I am but a woman!’ But a woman! What more can you ask to be?
The astronomer and women’s rights activist Maria Mitchell undoubtedly knew (also) from her own experience about the enormous obstacles that were and still are put in the way of active women today, but even more so in the 19th century … Weiterlesen
robe – bore
“Existing knowledge must be disassembled and reassembled in new ways.”
This describes precisely the principle of collage, the development of which the artist Max Ernst worked on intensely in collaboration with other Dada artists: everything was cut or torn apart and then analytically re-coordinated and reconfigured in totally new relationships … Weiterlesen
“I rebel, therefore we are”
The proximity to cogito ergo sumus springs to mind, but the point is not that we are when somebody is thinking – what is needed is action in the form of rebellion because rebellion with the purpose of bringing about … Weiterlesen
steer – reset
“Living on the razor’s edge”
This sounds very much like existentialism, but it actually mirrors normal life: very much alive, we wind ourselves through constantly impending disasters by a hair’s breadth.