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




Wednesday 13 June 2012

Social Freedoms and Subject Position









  • Discussion on Assange TV
  • Assange mentions '3 Fundamental freedoms'
  • Movement, Communiation and Commerce, the focus is on the Internet as potential solution space as a global tool...  
  • Commons of data c.f capital data corporate :data mining 
  • Build alternatives is  possible : 1 global tool internet? sharing comms re env


    • The problem with this discussion between these current celebrities of subversion (with their constructed/emergent subject positions?) is that the issue of  subject position (Davies & Harre) is not part if the discussion...

    nor possibly the way subject positions may emerge via random expressive flow & awareness int the context of  (global?) inclusivity...(Response to Heylighen (2007) (my ref from blog ) , a view obscured by the binary dynamics discussed in Hall S
              and Douglas M

    there is a technical inclusiveness  enabling the 3 freedoms he mentions, Communication, Movement, Commerce, but these are all objectively driven... based on a fixed bounded ego...

    but this highlights the architecture problem they themselves mention... the individual ego is a control language game that the corporate system has normalized as an absolute bounded 'reality'. 

    ...there are no women around the table?



    ...positioning Woman as the owner of the unbounded ego? plays into the dualistic game itself? 

    Re: The game is one of fixing and bounding performative  subject position? (Butler 1989) . 

    We see this with caricature based on binary opposition used in the popular press etc that has been arguably controlling politics, and politicians via influencing the voting public in the UK for the past 30 years via News International Etc...



    Davies, Bronwyn & Rom Harré ( 1990) ` Positioning: The Discursive Production of Selves ', Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 20(1): 43—63 

    Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge. November 15, 1989. Paperback, 192 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0415900433. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de,Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

    Stuart Hall (1997) "The Spectacle of the 'Other'," in Stuart Hall (Ed.) Representations. Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices.

    1. Heylighen F. (2007): The Global Superorganism: an evolutionary-cybernetic model of the emerging network society, Social Evolution & History 6: 1. Heylighen F.






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