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




Friday 8 July 2011

Society of the Spectacle

Translation

Guy Debord - Rewriting of Marxism replacing the  commodity with the image.

Debord was an alcoholic who committed suicide in 1994.

He still belived in a real  self and truth are accessible c.f Baudrillard
(perhaps this is source of his melancholy and escapism)

Encouraged 'Derive' as a response to the separation engendered by society of the spectacle
He redesigned it from that of the surrealists/Baudlaire as a political act
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