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




Derives

International Derive - August 2012 - December 2012
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Derive Diary 2012 


These "Derives'* are my own style of experiments in  'random journeying" ** my concern being with finding a balance to the segmentation of experience that can occur due to the forces of instrumental rationality.(ref blog) I am experimenting with and adapting a simple random selector method***as I learn from experience... My mode of transport is currently a  mountain bike. On the 7th derive I found 3 wooden dice**** which I am now using to select direction and distance..



10http://maps.google.com/?q=http://share.abvio.com/5b86/b6ec/4efb/bcd7/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20120219-1128.kml




(By Foot - London)
11 http://share.abvio.com/5b86/b6ec/4efb/bcd7/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20120225-0946.kml


12 http://share.abvio.com/5b86/b6ec/4efb/bcd7/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20120226-1606.kml

(Cycle Sheffield )

14  http://g.co/maps/q5j8a

15 http://share.abvio.com/5b86/b6ec/4efb/bcd7/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20120525-1445.kml


Notes


re 1-10
Although I thought I knew the local area pretty well I am regularly finding connections and throughways that connect areas of the city together i assumed  were much father apart, this offers me different practical options for my 'normal' journeys and routes. (add example (Clough Field-Allotments - Map)


* Debord  G(1956) Theory of the Dérive. Les Lèvres Nues #9 (Paris, November 1956). Reprinted in Internationale Situationniste #2 (Paris, December 1958). Translated by Ken Knabb.
** My method is currently driven by the exploration of the value  of  random journeying as a means of compensating for the segmentation/dualism that is arguably encouraged by our instrumental culture and ideology.
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c.f Defn Surrealism: "pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express the realproces of thought, free from any control by reason and of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation" Breton




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