Affect & Hope in the context of Designed Percieved Affordance :

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

Humans and their  Activity Systems (eg education) can become individualised, isolated and enclosed (re enclosure/subject positions ( Davies and Harre, Henriques) by   Designed Systems (Physical and Abstract (Eg Search Engines (1), Mapping Tools ))

the discourse dominated by the objectification of  "designed perceived affordance"(£££) (Norman)

(one counter to this could be  Affective Resonance (Massumi))

The closure is derived not simply because of lack of will on behalf of the enquirer but because of  conditioning bought about by the following influences:

The bounded nature of acquired knowledge sets, accepted norms of social env (Hegemony?)

The cultural belief that the only way to extend ones knowledge is to follow an incremental extension of well-defined knowledge sets.. (D'arcy) (this is an epistemological/educational problem) (relates to acceptance of/enquiry into  Random Expressive Flow)

'Practical' constraints'  and priorities (Who decides?) (c.f Construction drive ideology)

Weltanschuungen (Checkland) etc

Another boundary could be added to depict the point at which the potential environment

To retain and extend hope (and affect) in such a context may require the following...

" the abandomment of conditioned influences, , abandonment of reassurances about reality, and ultimately the sacrifice of ones Weltangschuung. as long as these influences remain intact, thepossibility of unending enquiry remains a myth" D'arcy

Relates to Massumi/Manning, see Q's  Foucault

Affective Resonator (Massumi) - re individual/de-centred self

Could be related to Frankfurt School - Critical Theory - Habermas/Marcuse

(1) I discovered the "Filter Bubble"Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" | Video on TED.com ]
 2 days after designing the above diagram, Is this a collective affective resonance(Massumi) or the filter bubble itself?

As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.

"If "code is law", as Creative Commons founder Larry Lessig declared, it's important to understand what the new lawmakers are trying to do. We need to understand what the programmers at Google and Facebook believe in. We need to understand the economic and social forces that are driving personalisation, some of which are inevitable and some of which are not. And we need to understand what all this means for our politics, our culture and our future."

 Eli Pariser. The Filter Bubble

HENRIQUES, J. et al. (1984) Changing the subject. Psychology,

social regulation and subjectivity. London, Methuen.