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, 29 March 2011

Marx, Foucault, Habermas

Marx- linear pattern of progress that traces a coherent movement through various modes of production.

Foucault: (postmodernism)critique of power knowledge and discipline a cyclical pattern of successive forms of power and violence that lead to greater forms of domination. Positing an individualist ideal of a person free of all social norms and the aesthetic transformation of the self

Frankfurt School - Critique of instrumental reason (hegemony of instrumental rationality)

Habermas: Suggests we need an expanded reason (Communicative Rationality/Discourse)(c.f Derrida), he critiques Marxism and Postmodern theory. Normative foundations without conventional foundationalism : eg a reason that does not simple accept positivism, an intersubjective reason concerned with the process of communication 


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A bridge between the interpretive (qualitative) and the prescriptive(quantitative)?
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