Communion
When human beings connect with each other or with other natural and intelligent life forms like animals or trees for example, there is the possibility of a shared meaning. When being in a relation in which a shared meaning is emerging, this fundamentally qualifies the relation. Being in communion with another being affects the performance of presence and the negotiation of trust fundamentally.
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Being and Bearing Witness
The key question within the Participatory Systems Initiative is ‘how to design systems so human…
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ACADEMIA
Presence, Availability and Representation
In the spring of 2010, we published the call to contribute to this special issue on Witnessed…
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ACADEMIA
Witnessed Presence
Human beings, in the act of being witness and bearing witness, have been mediating presence for…
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Actor-Presence Model
It has been argued that profiting from certain forms of employee experiences requires a form of…
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Notion of ‘presence’
Developments in the four companies appear to show that at least some employees (non-managers…
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Mediations
The whole face … runs forward, the glance no longer stops anywhere, the mouth never utters a word…
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The healing witness
A human face is … spread out … beneath the glance of other human faces, and it takes gladly to…
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Speaking subjects
In the beginning was suffering. —Julia Kristeva (1993), Proust and the Sense of Time
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Traumatic memory
One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house. Far safer, through an abbey…
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The call to witness
Through prayer, dialogue, art, and analysis, we therefore must seek “the great infinitesimal…
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Knowledge sharing
So far, nothing suggests that human presence is requisite to knowledge sharing, but Davenport and…
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Remote presence and mediated therapy
In the spring of 2008, a mediated therapist treated twenty patients remotely, in a workplace…
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The recognition of difference
There is one field, however, in which the contribution of the two projects—the actual witnessing…
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Recognition beyond recognition
Globalisation transformed Western conceptions of witnessing and bearing witness to gross violations…
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Who, then, is the actual witness?
Western authors walk a thin line. De facto, collaborative undertakings such as ‘Breaking the…
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Said, not spoken and inaudible
Annemarie Prins declares in a leaflet on the play that: ‘the main goal of this production is to…