Contactics: The Daily Drama of Human Contact

The book presents a new useful field called "contactics", the study of conscious contact. It addresses two central questions that permeate our existence in the waking hours of our contact with things: How do we make sense out of things in our lives and the world around us? What do we do to change the existing sense of these things? Accordingly, the book is divided in two parts. Part I shows, through the use of small scenarios and analysis, what contactics is and how it works. Here we observe how conscious actions - doing, saying and writing - are organised in terms of a few simple elements of a code that is situated in every brain. Part II presents case studies that show how contactics as a social behavioural science is used for problem solving, extending itself to a humanistic philosophy, "contactism". Contactism requires that a solution to problems involving human contact take place in an egalitarian manner.