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The corporeal order of things

the Spiel of usability

Kurt Dauer Keller

pp. 173-204

Abstract

Things make sense to us. The identity of a thing is a meaningful style that expresses the usability of the thing. The usability is a dynamic order of the praxis in which the thing is embedded and in which we are ourselves de-centered. According to Merleau-Ponty, this sociocultural and psychosocial order is a formation of practical understanding and interpretation that rests upon and resumes the elementary, perceptual-expressive structuring of being. The Spiel is one of the three dimensions of corporeal intentionality, in which this entire organization of meaning and experience unfolds. So, the Spiel of usability is a corporeal and practical intentionality that reaches from an aesthetic-ontological structuring of meaning to the order of the things in modern everyday praxes.

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Published in:

(2005) Human Studies 28 (2).

Pages: 173-204

DOI: 10.1007/s10746-005-4191-5

Full citation:

Dauer Keller Kurt (2005) „The corporeal order of things: the Spiel of usability“. Human Studies 28 (2), 173–204.