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Philosophy on the Way to Ecology, Chapter 2, Section I
What interested me most in the chapter was phenomology, or structures of consciousness from first person point of view. The quote, “Galileo had already asserted that only properties of matter that are directly amenable to mathematical measurement (such as size, shape, and weight) are real; the other more subjective qualities such as sound, taste, and color are merely illusory impressions” (page 32)
These words led me to think about subjectivity and how people label their perceptions. Intersubjectivity is also related to social life, so I turned to social media to examine how people use hashtags as a way to keep order. The words I chose were home, spicy, woman, red, sour, tree and gray. The range of information shown in the hashtags was very wide.
It seems that there is a lot of interpretations as to what qualifies under one subjective terms. I also feel that social media has the ability to tear down walls of subjectivity when it builds integrated databases of images tied together by one word.
The above set of social media images is labeled "tree".
These words led me to think about subjectivity and how people label their perceptions. Intersubjectivity is also related to social life, so I turned to social media to examine how people use hashtags as a way to keep order. The words I chose were home, spicy, woman, red, sour, tree and gray. The range of information shown in the hashtags was very wide.
It seems that there is a lot of interpretations as to what qualifies under one subjective terms. I also feel that social media has the ability to tear down walls of subjectivity when it builds integrated databases of images tied together by one word.
The above set of social media images is labeled "tree".
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