In PPM6 I read what is one of the shorter phenomenological meditations. Continuing on with the an exploration of the question, "How is it with the Nothing?", this meditation identifies a new categorical description, namely, 'provocation,' and is a development of an idea I had written about two years earlier: the estrangement effect. In turn, I suggest that evocative speech is expressed as a provocative kind of estranging questioning, the kind that instigates by irritating, disturbing and exciting. In this sense it 'turns on' learning.
February 13, 2014 was the 10th anniversary of the original experiment that produced 363 phenomenological mediations, published as 'Being and Learning' (Brill: 2012). Each day between Feb 2014-15, I returned to the original meditations, and my commentary is documented here. And then, again, on February 15, 2024, on the 20th anniversary of the first days of the original experiment, I revisit and comment on a daily basis, once again.
"Provocation" importantly has the root 'vocare' (voice, speak, announce, call). The speech that 'calls' or 'calls out' is the one that provokes thinking and thus creates the condition for being and learning.
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