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, 21 September 2010

Postmodernism

It sees no difference such as ‘high' culture and ‘low' culture. As it protests against totalitarianism of rationality, instead it suggests narrations and irrational behavior. But this does not mean postmodernism simply supports all sorts of narrations and myths. It vehemently condemns grand narratives and replaces them with local cum micro narratives. Particularly when it comes to metaphysical aspects, it demolishes foundationalism, essentialism, and absolutism. It denies absolute objectivity of truth, reality and knowledge and supports plurality of truths, multiplicity of meaning and celebration of difference.(Undecidable) When it comes to epistemology, postmodernism deliberately refuses reason as an ultimate instrument of knowledge. In social and political sphere it closely observes the disparity, coercion and domination implanted by the utopian concepts of universalism, transcendentalism. In turn postmodernism develops "incredulity toward metanarratives"26 andrejects any foundational or universalistic account of existence. It invokes de-naturalization of hierarchy and topsy-turvy of centrality. In ethical grounds though postmodernists are groundless, they value plurality of cultural, ethnic and religious "small narratives". They aim to (re)conceptualize a pluralistic justice which takes into account the concern for the "other", the "excluded", "unrepresented", "unknown" or "marginalized": the postmodern ethico-political project constitutes a response to "difference, exclusion and marginalisation"27 produced by modernity. Except for the distrust in systematic moral codes and integrated forms of life, postmodernism shows respect to moral relativism and promote diversity of all kinds.



It opens up various other possibilities that rejoice fluidity, variations, multiplicity, diversity, plurality, difference, etc., without prescribing any final solution.


Dr.M.Susithra
The Dept. of Philosophy &Centre for Philosophical Research


Its full of undecidables - sloppy logic? purpose?

Also denies meta langage which addresses undecidables


I am suspicious that it clears the way for division and dominace by capital via the language games of instrumental reason


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