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

What is Research? Why? How?


Natural Research
  • We continually identify “things” (Subjectively defined entities (Systems))  From our subjective Flow of Experience (pre epitemological field of being)(Lifeworld?, Lebenswelt? Husserl) assign Values to these 'Things' (Systems)(Connor, S)  via distinction (Spencer Brown) of system boundaries(D’arcy) and closure(D’arcy)
  • This closure process necessarily involves reduction of complexity via a number of filters from our perceptual systems/language/culture/education/world view
Organised Research
  • An organised attempt to decide rationally on regularities, values, perspectives and actions (anticipation, interpretation of Flow and Prescription)(re Happiness(Mutual/Sustainable) Game) .
  • I see this as essentially a process of Communicative Rationality (Habermas (his defn of lifeword is different



  • Re colonisation of lifeworld by Instrumental Rationality (Technical- Productive bias of Capital)

  • Phenomenological Lifeworld of Husserl is our natural subjectivity (define) - Lifeworld of Habermas is culturally grounded agreement - (conceptual) and is potentially subject to colonisation by Instrumental rationality (technical/productive interests of capital) that may distort and deny natural access to Phenomenological Lifeworld
  • Direct analogy to Representational Knowledge and Random Expressive Flow
PCP

A persons processes are psychologically channelled by the way in which they anticipate events
A person anticipates events by construing their replications

Kelly postulates i and ii of PCP
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