The Knower's Lens
Interpretation
The work of making something mean something. Data, texts, images and events do not announce their own significance; the categories a knower brings determine what is even available to be noticed, which is why disagreements about interpretation are rarely settled by looking harder.
How the knower shapes knowledge. These concepts ask what the knower contributes to what is known, and why two careful people looking at the same thing can arrive somewhere different.
Situations that raise interpretation
All 31 situationsReal cases a class can argue about, where this concept is what is actually at stake.
- Perpetrators, re-enactingSoutheast Asia
- Restoring murals nobody saw paintedIndia
- Move 37East Asia
- The city the lasers found under the jungleSoutheast Asia
- The hand that knows the strokeEast Asia
- Two names for one ancestorAfrica
- The third umpire and the ball that never arrivedSouth Asia
- Restoring what you cannot seeEast Asia