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




Wednesday, 22 September 2010

Seminar

Kathleen suggests I read  Foucault, Giddens, Fairclough
(language games - discourses)

attempt to position research

'about': others constructs or 'through': my own

Clarify  difference between

General Research Topic & Research Methodology (Theoretical  Research Position)

I assume this means she thinks I am confusing my concern with complementarity of constructs (specifically  distinction/union)  Critical Knowledge/Random Expressive Flow (I realise this can only operate at certain levels of knowledge (in and between certain language games!?) 


with a need to take a specific research position  (eg post sructuralist as opposed to structuralist)


(Habermas is officaily a modernist (hes  associated with Frankfurt School of Critical Theory)( Layder Points to the fact that Habermas work spans different perspectives with aspects of Post modern thats why I like some of his concepts to  quote the postmodernist wikipedia (Which we are not supposed to "While influenced by American pragmatism, structural functionalism, and even poststructuralism, many of the central tenets of Habermas' thought remain broadlyMarxist in nature."   (replace this with Layder quote))


Kathleen jokes that I should "circle like vulture around a core target of research"  its funny...
- funnily enough no one mentioned "Core" is perhaps itself part of a  language game with certain power interests and  trajectories !... then of course  there is N-N-N-Nerd-Core !  
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