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By David Bennewith

*See also is a lexicon written and compiled in 2017 by the students of the graphic design department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie as a part of the writing class of Phil Baber.

While reading Hugh Kenner’s Mechanic Muse the other day I came across a sentence which I thought was relevant to our lexicon and made a mental note to send it to all of you: “Terminology alters our sense of what the mind does, what are its domains, how characterised and bounded.”

But when I went to copy it out just now, I realised that it doesn't say “terminology” at all, but “technology.” Which I suppose makes more sense. But still, I like the misreading – the notion that what is thinkable is characterised and bounded by our terminology, our vocabulary, and that the realm of the thinkable may therefore also be stretched and changed by revisiting and rethinking the terminology that we have at our disposal. 

Till next time, 
Manon Bachelier, Elina Birkehag, Yun Hee Chae, Beatriz Conefrey, Kimberley Cosmilla, Eliott Déchamboux, Anton Halla, Wooseok Jang, Zuzana Kostelanská, Jurgis Lietunovas, Marcel Mrejen, Kaspar Sellin, Claes Storm, Laslo Strong and Alexander Übelhör.

Website by Beatriz Conefrey, Kaspar Sellin, Laslo Strong

The Gerrit Rietveld Academie is a small-scale, independent and internationally oriented university of applied sciences for Fine Arts and Design in Amsterdam (NL) where artistic expertise converges from a wide range of angles.

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