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, 9 September 2011

Social Theory and Complexity Theory




Bookchin, M.( 2005)The Ecology of Freedom. Oakland: AK Press, 2005. 
Cilliers P:(1998)
Castellani and Hafferty (2009) Sociology and Complexity Science: A New Area of Inquiry
Eve et al (1997). Chaos, Complexity and Sociology: Myths, Models, and Theories. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Jenks & Smith (2006): Ecology Cognitive processes and the reemergence of structures in post-humanist social Theory, Routledge 
Swimme B. (Re Self-Organisation and the Membrane)
Deleuze, Systems Theory and Emergence A Journal of Modern Critical Theory 29, 2 July 2006 19-39
Urry, John 2005. “The Complexity Turn.” Theory, Culture and Society, 22(5): 1-14.
Emergence : a property of Whole Systems (General Systems Theory) Bertalanffy, L.

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