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Visual information construing

bistability as a revealer of mediating patterns

Sylvie Leleu-Merviel

pp. 237-265

Abstract

Positing that information is a process, this chapter brings together different concepts to describe the informational process, from difference (Bateson) and diaphora (Floridi) to pattern (Bates) through to aspects, viewpoints and outlooks (Mugur-Schächter). Examples of the visual experience of bistable images show how these concepts come together to support coalescence, which is proposed as the key stage of visual sense-construing. Lictions (i.e. bonds, echoes, strengths, etc.) interlink data knitted together to support, at a higher epistemological level, a template of compatible patterns within a same "horizon of relevance". The formation of such a template constitutes meaning-making, by naturalized coalescence or rationalized contiguity, and socially normalized sharing procedures.

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Published in:

Ibekwe-San Juan Fidelia, Dousa Thomas M. (2014) Theories of information, communication and knowledge: a multidisciplinary approach. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 237-265

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6973-1_10

Full citation:

Leleu-Merviel Sylvie (2014) „Visual information construing: bistability as a revealer of mediating patterns“, In: F. Ibekwe-San Juan & T. M. Dousa (eds.), Theories of information, communication and knowledge, Dordrecht, Springer, 237–265.