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, 5 April 2011

Hegemony and the concept of "Random Expressive Flow"

Considering the definition of hegemony given below, I could, reflexively, analyse the possible forms of hegemony that could frame the meaning of "Random Expressive Flow"


Conceptual (De Bono) -  Poetic/Intuitive (Poeisis/Heidegger) - Performative/Improvised(Delanda/Eshleman)
<------------------------------------------------Random Expressive Flow--------------------------------------------------->




I see 'Random Expressive Flow' as a possible simple inclusive access point to the creative commons of our planets evolutionary capacity.(c.f Deleuze bWo, morphogenic potential (Delanda)) I am not implying that Quality and Fit will inevitably emerge, just that the experiment, if it can be designed safely, should be done before we impose order based on assumptions(bad faith?c.f pragmatism) (Hogarth Hume) (1.)

Being such an open, inclusive concept, "Random Expressive Flow" offers the opportunity for the reader to select/project different meanings. It is possible certain ones will dominate, leading to a dominant discourse being generated around the concept...
For example 'Random Expressive Flow' could be assumed to be concerned  exclusively with introverted poetic intuition on one hand, or extroverted performance on the other, these could in turn be associated with  "irrelevance to rational debate"  (perhaps by a modernist) on one hand and "the potentially abusive"  (perhaps by a feminist) on the other...


It may perhaps also  be considered an enabler or a block to empathy...
Such interpretations may or may not have "validity",  depending on the context ( post structuralists would deny the refferential validity of  truth claims (Derrida)). The point is that discourse around the concept changes depending on the  perspectives/views taken..


However what  leads to the dominant discourse and what to the marginalised? How is the dominant discourse maintained? What "Truths" are claimed? (Foucault)


Compare: 
Derrida (Marginalised Discourse)
Foucault (Docile Bodies)
Habermas (Strategic & Communicative Discourse)
Giddens (Structuration/Reproduction of Structure)
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