Comments on: Liveblog: Phoebe Sengers “Representation and Response” http://www.blogschmog.net/2008/02/22/liveblog-phoebe-sengers-representation-and-response/ We live as if the world were as it should be, to show it what it can be. Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean Connolly http://www.blogschmog.net/2008/02/22/liveblog-phoebe-sengers-representation-and-response/comment-page-1/#comment-33086 Sean Connolly Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:05:24 +0000 http://www.blogschmog.net/2008/02/22/liveblog-phoebe-sengers-representation-and-response/#comment-33086 With representation being ambiguous and interpretation being uncertain, interaction becomes a probabilistic / quantum equation which never leads up to certainty on part of the actor or evaluator. The actor and evaluator are then aware of their limitations, and so, forced to take their stance, terribly being aware of their own uncertainty and knowing that the validity of their next act cannot be proven correct to a 100-percentile certainty. This reflection and choice making through uncertainty seems to be the heart and drive of phoebe sengers presentation. Her talk seems to demand this reflection and choice-making (which she notes is implicitly occurring) interpenetrates and interlinks the lifeworld of the agent, evaluator, spectator, actor, designer, and expert. With representation being ambiguous and interpretation being uncertain, interaction becomes a probabilistic / quantum equation which never leads up to certainty on part of the actor or evaluator. The actor and evaluator are then aware of their limitations, and so, forced to take their stance, terribly being aware of their own uncertainty and knowing that the validity of their next act cannot be proven correct to a 100-percentile certainty.

This reflection and choice making through uncertainty seems to be the heart and drive of phoebe sengers presentation. Her talk seems to demand this reflection and choice-making (which she notes is implicitly occurring) interpenetrates and interlinks the lifeworld of the agent, evaluator, spectator, actor, designer, and expert.

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