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yuti — December 27, 2007 / 5:11 pm
Francis Bacon words ‘knowledge is power’ express his world view which, “took a deliberately strong position against the idea of a separation and opposition between techniques and science, manual and intellectual work, and mechanical and liberal art.(Hiskes, 1986)” The unity between material (technique) and non-material (intellectual) can also be seen in Japanese tradition include the sympathy to nature depicted in the Manyohshu, the notion of “the beauty of change and transition” (mono no aware), the delicate sentiment conveyed by the Kokin-wakashu, and the stylish (iki) lifestyle and art in the urban culture of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Yedo(old name of Tokyo)(Nonaka&Takeuchi, 1995).
In social theory, symmetry between material and non-material object can be seen in actor-network approach. The approach, or some people also call it as a theory, see social as a construction between human and material object. The ‘ideology’ of material object in this approach can be followed by seeing its performance. In my research about bio energy, how material influence human life occur in environmental issue. Another example is how we deal with our routines which influenced by the earth rotation. How material object ‘act’ influence our behaviors, and percept the world.
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