Lene Pettersen
Lene Pettersen works as a concept developer and senior advisor at Bouvet ASA. She holds a Bachelor degree (hovedfag) in Social anthropology from University of Oslo, within cognitive anthropology, where she studied representations communicated through televison and wanted to explore theories of semantics, semiotics, reception analysis and other linguistic relatives during her fieldwork. After finishing her "hovedfag" she studied hypermedia and saw lots of close relations to well known fields as hyper-text, non-linearity, time & space o.a. She also studied film- and mediascience at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and holds regularly lectures about our surrounding world and ways of grasping and bringing meaning to reality.
Meaningful representations of reality
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, says the American social anthropologist Clifford Geertz in his famous book The Interpretation of Cultures from 1973. Classification is ways of placing knowledge into meaningful and representative categories. What is thought of as meaningful is [...]
