Deconstructing: Perspectives on Perspective-Making

Abstract

Being asked to provide commentary and critique on this compelling collection of perspectives on two powerful and converging disciplines – the media and psychology – proved to be both a compliment and a daunting task. It forced me to collect thoughts that always bounce around in my head, and try and order them in a way that both spoke to the request, but also added something that extends the work overall. To do this, I needed some sort of mental model, something to organize my thoughts and direct them toward a goal. I ended up by deciding to think of myself as an art critic, who has been invited to peruse a new exhibit, made up of various pieces of art, executed by a variety of artists, who were selected by a curator who had their own vision of some theme or unifying construct that drove the individual choices for the exhibit.