in the hope
we have named
…language is an important tool.
It serves
for experiences that one has not yet had.
You have built up
models
words and concepts
tuning and accommodating
the meaning of words
throughout our lives.
The ‘object’
calls forth and lives
to relay self-programming.

In the face of our terror before the uncontrollable chaos of the universe, we label as much as we can with language in the hope that once we have named something we need no longer fear it. /

…language is of course an important tool. It serves in many ways and one of the most powerful is that it can provide instructions for experiences that one has not yet had. …This is the way that you have built up, through linguistic communication, a vast number of models that you could then use in your actual experiential reality. … children make the semantic connections between words and concepts by observing the language games the adults around them are playing. …the process of tuning and accommodating the meaning of words and linguistic expressions continues for each of us throughout our lives. /

The ‘object’ on which the aesthetic reader concentrates is not ‘verbal,’ but experiential; the ‘object’ is the cognitive and affective structure which the reader calls forth and lives through. /

The significance of words isn’t their superficial ability to relay information but rather to structure the self-programming quality that’s inherent in language itself

Anne Bogart, A Director Prepares / from Radical Constructivism by Ernst Von Glasersfeld / Rosenblatt, L.M. (1985) ‘Viewpoints: Transaction versus interaction – A terminological rescue operation’, Research in Teaching English, 19, 1, pp.98-107 quoted in Radical Constructivism, Glasersfeld / Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 2, Manga DVD