Part of the point of hierarchy is to create a system in which dependency is separated from intimacy. And just to be sure, we will also separate power from dependency…so the people furthest from the point of interaction and relation – from the risks of dependency – to need have the greatest concentrations of power. Yet their only real domain…
The immersive entertainments’ industry puts me in mind of a way of innovating that has some of the qualities of an intimate dynamic, but without the grit and pushback of the face to face. In this version of events reader and viewer participate in the involved narrative – they get lost in the plot there is a blurring of the…
In other language from a different discipline something akin to reverie would be called compassionate non-attachment. The notion comes from the work of the early 20th century German philosopher Sigmund Friedlaender, who introduced Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt Psychotherapy, to the idea that opposites define each other and that there is a resting point in the middle – the point…
In her MA thesis, Sarah Sutton (2007) proposes the concept of ‘corporate reverie’ linked to the role of ‘corporate parenting’, which is a responsibility in the role of senior officers in local authorities (as described in various parts of UK government policy (1998)). This role is particularly expected of these corporate parents in relation to ‘looked after children’ (in some form…
Partnership is to do with equality, in theory – public sector partnerships have proliferated in the late 1990s and early 2000s with mandates to try and tackle ‘inequality’ (close the gap – as it is commonly described). They also confront those that are involved in them with the paradoxes of working with those who are not one’s equals, and with whom…
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