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is 'the creation of an appetite in the mind of the auditor, and the adequate satisfying of that appetite.

In his essay 'Psychology and Form,' Burke defines form as 'the creation of anappetite in the mind of the auditor, and the adequate satisfying of that appetite' (CS 31).

is a gestalt which is not an abstract shape or form that may be shared by several things, but rather the form or shape of an individual. Unlike form, gestalt does not usually imply a contrast with 'matter' or 'content'. Objects that have a gestalt (e.g. Plants, musical works, cultures) are thought of as organic unities, appreciable only as a whole, not by the piecemeal consideration of their parts.

German has two words for 'form': 1. Gestalt is a native German word, originally from stellen ('to put, set up, arrange, form', etc.), but generating a verb of its own, gestalten ('to form, shape'), and hence the noun Gestaltung for the process or product of such forming. A Gestalt is not an abstract shape or form that may be shared by several things, but the form or shape of an individual. Thus it can refer also to the formed or shaped individual itself. Unlike Form, Gestalt does not usually imply a contrast with 'matter' or 'content'. Objects that have a Gestalt (e.g. plants, musical works, cultures) are thought of as ORGANIC unities, appreciable only as a whole, not by the piecemeal consideration of their parts. (inwood 1992 : 108)

is a noun in architecture and a verb in industry.

In architecture, form is a noun... in industry, form is a verb.Buckminster Fuller

is a product of the interaction and conflict between the physical and online dimensions of space.

By function Castells means the dynamic opposition between the electronic global and the face-to-face local. By meaning he implies a complex relationship between 'individuation' (personal identity) and 'communalism' (the shared identites of ethnicity, social class, and culture). And form is a product of the interaction and conflict between the pysical and online dimensions of space. The 'space of flows' links up separate locations electronically. (le gates City Reader)

What is real is the continual change of form: form is only a snapshot view of a transition' (Bergson)

is a sphere of ideological patterns and influences, competing and shaping each other.

She defines form as a sphere of ideological patterns and influences, which can be present in any given text, competing with and shaping each other. She details 'a cultural-political field in which literary forms and social formations can be grasped as comparable and overlapping patternings operating on a common plane' (626). (net)

is a verb in industry and a noun in architecture.

is an arousing of desire, including 'expectations' evoked by a conventional genre.

an arousing . . . of desires', including 'expectations' evoked by a conventional genre ([1931] 1968: 124, 139)

form, n.Memes

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