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Monday, October 6, 2003
The Nature of FormsBuilding off Dewey's thoughts on Having an Experience, we looked at Kenneth Burke's thoughts on form. Burke is more practical than Dewey; he offers more clear examples and is more tactical in his approach. Form is "an arousing and fulfillment of desires." It springs from the subject matter. There is something in the content that binds it together. As an essentialist, Burke believes we're shaped by these patterns, both natural and social. He calls it priority of forms. Patterns (or forms) are there to be found and used. Burke describes five aspects of forms, one of which is the syllogistic progression. In this form, an action occurs and something necessarily has to follow. It is the purest form of Dewey's experience. We also did another exercise in class where we watched classmate Jennifer Anderson navigate through How Many Bugs in a Box?, a children't CD-ROM from ~10 years ago. We then had to break down the experience using the three interpretations of interaction that we've learned (entitative, existential, essentialist).
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