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




Saturday 25 May 2013

Metanarrative Dynamic


Habermas believes that such remnants of the Enlightenment are essential to correct the misperception that we can effectively live together with NO metanarrative. Habermas accepts a metanarrative that remains flexible and open to new understandings (cf. his auto-poietic "learning" systems, when he criticizes Luhmann's auto-poietic non-learning systems.) I think this metanarrative is the process of enabling communication
 Foucault sees that as unacceptable, subjective. Habermas sees Foucault as neo-conservative, throwing out all to preserve a purity of perspective we cannot and do not need to achieve, while providing us with no guidance on how to proceed in our social world.

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