- Title
- Playing person: an architectural adventure
- Creator
- Ednie-Brown, Pia
- Relation
- Immediation 1 p. 182-205
- Relation
- Immediations
- Relation
- http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/immediation-1
- Publisher
- Open Humanities Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- In play, you don’t bite, you nip. The difference between biting and nipping is what opens the analogical gap between combat and play. It is the style of the gesture that opens the minimal difference between the play gesture and its analogue in the arena of combat. Brian Massumi (2014: 9) As you read these written words, on some screen or page somewhere, they are to some extent involved in the act of mediating between whatever it is I am trying to say and whatever meaning you might glean from them. As anyone who writes comes to realise, they will do an imperfect job—for meaning is not simply “conveyed” or moved seamlessly from one place to another. This is linked to the fact that words do not simply mediate—they also have an immediacy that acts in the moment of your reading—now—as the act is taking place. This event will inflect the meaning of any assemblage of words I might have strained to compose into clear form. One could see this as interference—the pesky potential for misunderstanding. However, this would be to risk overlooking every other potential of words.
- Subject
- architecture; playing; renovation; Victorian terrace house
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1441725
- Identifier
- uon:41510
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781785420849
- Language
- eng
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