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




Binary Coding

  • Difference




3. The anthropological argument (made by DuGay and Hall; Mary Douglas) that each culture gives meaning by classifying things. Classification means emphasizing the difference; better said: when you classify something, there is a principle according to which you decide it is different or similar - so it has to go into this class of things (e.g. chairs) or the other (e.g. dogs). The idea here is that difference is created by those principles of classifications (those things which you highlight as central to defining a chair versus a dog). Though it may look like those principles are 'natural', 'logical' and 'immutable', they are in fact social conventions  c.f coding in text and databases - c.f transcoding Bahktin Volsinov


The problematic issues arise with classifying types of system that do not neatly  fit the selected / assumed categories:
e.g. Mercury,
http://thinkingdifference.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/stuart-hall-why-does-difference-matter.html
   
c.f Planet Earth. (a system of which we are a part) and binary systems.

This relates to closure,

c.f  Verala, Spencer-Brown

Closure, Gestalt, Discourse Closure, Systems Boundary



Programming:


My experience of programming education : (I have recently gained a qualification in"advanced server side PHP and Javascript programming")
is that the binary choices that underly it  and the data structures and database structures it utilises are not questioned, issues such as "consistency of attributes of  identity" are assumed in terms of validation etc.

  • Re Object orientation in programming:




  • , "Object Oriented Programming puts the Nouns first and foremost. Why would you go to such lengths to put one part of speech on a pedestal? Why should one kind of concept take precedence over another? It's not as if OOP has suddenly made verbs less important in the way we actually think. It's a strangely skewed perspective." [40] Yegge S

  • In the current OO model, there is a kind of Sartrean bad faith going on. The object is fixed or pinned down to its identity.
    The object should have no identity. Everything that it does is a “performance.”

    Shapiro
  • http://www.alan-shapiro.com/rules-and-patterns-system-for-design-process-support-software-by-alan-n-shapiro/














  • Control of data : Architecture of systems : "if you have centralized data it attracts control freaks" re "it is essential for our security"









  • Discussion on Assange TV

  • Re: Database of explorers? Should I have one? c.f google maps etc..
  • 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, for very  good reason perhaps, is that the issue of  subject position (Davies & Harre) is not part if the discussion... nor the way subject positions can emerge via random expressive flow & awareness and its global inclusiveness... there is a technical inclusiveness but this highlights the architecture problem they themselves mention... the individual ego is a control game that the corporate system has framed as the only game in town. 

    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...


    Positioning Woman as the owner of the unbounded ego? plays into the dualistic game itself? 
    We reach the issue of logical typing again... perhaps 

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










  • Control of Subject Position? - what is this 'self' we are protecting  and through which we define freedom etc?

    • Assumption of bounded self
    Reified freedom of identification
    Construction of random flow?
    Construction of inclusive listening?
    Construction of optimum focus?


    Coding: as Method

    Comparison of Methods : Rep Grid (Constructivist) and Narrative Analysis(Social Constructionism)


    Habermas:

    From the perspective of Habermas, as complexity grows in society, original kinship bonds, face to face negotiation and social solidarity in the lifeworld are handed over to institutions, codified law, expert systems and a metric(capital) (structure?), this abstract, limited metric then returns to colonise the lifeworld (agency?), as "instrumental rationality' in the form of capital, bureaucracy and ideology (mystification), and it could be argued, these utilise and promote (Aritistotelian) the reductionism and excluded middle bias of binary oppositions (that are built into our institutions and cultural systems via binary coding our computer systems/expert systems)(Latour ), and reification (refs) to replace more humane holistic/inclusive/dialectical forms of reason (communicative rationality (Habermas) in the name of "pragmatism". 
    Internet offers global utility but based often on binary coding of identity..is this a danger?... a reductionism of the 'individual' the forgets/denies  the collective global identity/subject position as it does not fit into the binary categories/architectural foundations...
    How to compensate for this ... when security fears and capital interests push us towards further 'security' measures and exclusion...?





    Coding: 

    (v.f re Assumed flat plane  absolute categorization driven by instrumentality (links to feminist criticism? ask Catherine) re natural systems: complementary, self similar, no absolute boundary,
    (metaphor of hands of body)

    *the tendency towards classification via binary categories is an issue  with potentially serious consequences in the context of fixing (arbitrary and profitable) oppositional subject positions...


    Classification/coding  can be 'object' based or functional...
    i.e. can relate to human need or be an isolated depiction -  e.g. it can be automated and uncurious replication or a conscious deliberation and discussion  of function.(relates to Habermas Communicative Discourse)


    Coding refers to an analytical process in which data, in both quantitative form (such as questionnaires results) or qualitative (such as interview transcripts) are categorised to facilitate analysis.
    Coding means the transformation of data into a form understandable by computer software. The classification of information is an important step in preparation of data for computer processing withstatistical software.
    One code should apply to only one category and categories should be comprehensive. There should be clear guidelines for coders (individual who do the coding) so that code is consistent.
    Some studies will employ multiple coders working independently on the same date. This minimizes the chance of errors from coding and increases the reliability of data.





    For disciplines in which a qualitative format is preferential, including ethnography, humanistic geography or phenomenological psychology a varied approach to coding can be applied. Iain Hey (2005)[citation needed] outlines a two step process beginning with basic coding in order to distinguish overall themes, followed by a more in depth, interpretive code in which more specific trends and patterns can be interpreted.

    The process can be done manually, which can be as simple as highlighting different concepts with different colours, or fed into a software package. Qualitative software packages include for exampleAtlas.ti,  and NVivo.


    While Deleuze and Guattari do understand gender does play an active role in todays' society, they argue for an ethics that opposes the general and the particular as they feel these are systems of over-coding and determinism.

    http://struggleswithphilosophy.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/some-quotes-from-brian-massumi.html
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