Quotes

"Dialogue is mutual search for a new reality, not debate to win with stronger arguments. In a dialogue propositions are pointers toward a common new reality; not against each other to win a verbal battle, but complementing each other in an effort to accommodate legitimate goals of all parties, inspired by theories and values, and constructive-creative-concrete enough to become a causa finalis". Galtuung


"I use the concept of affect as away of talking about a margin of manouverability, the 'where we might be able to go' and 'what we might be able to do' in every present situation. I guess 'affect' is a word I use for 'hope': Massumi


"A discourse is a system of words, actions, rules, beliefs, and institutions that share common values. Particular discourses sustain particular worldviews. We might even think of a discourse as a worldview in action. Discourses tend to be invisible--taken for granted as part of the fabric of reality."Fairclough


Emergence is “the principle that entities exhibit properties which are meaningful only when attributed to the whole, not to its parts.” Checkland


"What the designer cares about is whether the user perceives that some action is possible (or in the case of perceived non-affordances, not possible)." Norman




Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Humanism & Post-Modernism

"this subject is more appropriately conceptualised as an 'individual' or 'person' and is seen to posess the capacity for constructing the social world in a way that is meaningful to her/him. It is precisely this notion of the individual as the centre of the socialuniverse that is the object of such vehement criticism by structuralism and its post-structualist and psotmodern offshoots. This thetrefore represents a radical distinction between  the humanist and postmodern forms of thinking. Dispite this crucial divergence, there are other pioints at which there is some overlap between  humanist schools of thought and postmodernism.In particular there is  emphasis on the ocaland fragmentary nature of meaning, an anti-theoretical strain and a distruct of the search for objective truth which is the hallmark of conventional scientific enquiry.

p73 Layder D Understanding SocialTheory
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