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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.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Adorno always fought for the radical autonomy of art. Only as an alternative to everything else – and in radical separation from anything else – could art be able to create insights and to change the world.
What’s amazing about … Weiterlesen
chin = inch
Research is formalized curiosity.
What a smart explication of research! It’s not about positivist empirical studies. Instead, the concept of analysing through curiosity is the ability to observe and possibly even understand what is happening in the world.
ports = sport
hint = thin
“Only he [or she] who knows the past has a future.”
It is only through awareness and contemplation of the past that we develop a concept of time and of the idea that there could be, and must be, a future – which, however, does not say anything about the content … Weiterlesen
nerve = never
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
This seems to be a very democratic statement; sometimes, however, extremely difficult to comply with it, and, at times, even questionable. As long as this concept of freedom is applied to judgements and opinions that are within an acceptable spectrum … Weiterlesen