Affordance: ) to refer to the actionable properties between the world and an actor (a person or animal). Gibson (1977, 1979
"perceived affordance,"
"in design, we care much more about what the user perceives than what is actually true. 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 (Design))
Appreciative Judgement:
... to see, to value, and to respond to situations in familiar ways that, while they last, exclude the power to see other possibilities (ibid, p.
69). Vickers 1995
„...a set of readiness to distinguish some aspects of the situation
rather than others and to classify and value these in this way rather than in
that‟ (ibid, p. 82).
Concept: a representation in the mind - may be visual, lingsitic etc (Source)
Constructive Alternativism: There are always different ways to interpret or give meaning to any event. We (potentially) need never be trapped by our past as we are all capable of reconstruing events.
Kelly G
Construct (Kelly): a construct has a specific opposite whereas a concept does not. Thus, all constructs are bipolar
Context: wider environment of knowledge claim? (relates to closure)
(Bryson)
Creativity: " to question our patterned assignment of values and boundaries"?*
"Bringing the autonomous patterns into concious awareness and rationally questioning them and experimentally trying alternatives"
(Discourse) Closure : Relates to ontology, epistemology; pragmatic selection of "Knowledge"via placing a conceptual boundary around a "system" and associating it with a linguistic term. in the context of open systems, undecidability etc
(Hume, Post-Structuralism, Postmodernism, Jayaratna & D'arcy, Habermas)
Emergence: If by the characteristic organization of a system we mean that which defines it as `this particular case of that kind of a system', then the most fundamental postulate of classical systems theory might be that the characteristic organization of a system is `other than' the mere sum of its parts--a set of properties based on, yet emerging from its constituents as something `new' (von Bertalanffy, 1968, p. 55). (c.f Univocity - Deleuze)
Episteme : a way of undersanding the world that is limited to a specific time and place - (boundary?)
Ideology: Hidden assumptions inherent in narrative,:Eagleton, Terry (1991)
" 'common sense' assumptions which are explicit in the conventions according to which people interact linguistically, and of which people are generally not aware": Fairclough
indeterminacy (openness to an elsewhere and otherwise of a body..., in any here and now). Massumi
Interpellation Interpellation can be considered as 'recruitment' as it invites a person into a subject position. When they do so, the consistency principle then leads them into a cycle of investment whereby they bond their sense of identity both to the subject position and also the underlying ideology.
Althusser, L. (1989). 'Ideology and ideological state apparatuses' in Lenin and Philosophy and other Essays. London: New Left Books pp 170-86
http://changingminds.org/explanations/critical_theory/concepts/interpellation.htm
Knowledge: Conceptual patterns/structures utilised by the mind to identify regularities (usually by reduction?see requisite variety) in the complexity experiencial flow. See Anticipation, Construct.
Construing replications.
C.f Lyotard types - Efficiency, Truth, Ethical, Beauty
(choose and clarify)
Narrative: For general purposes in semiotics and literary theory, a "narrative" is a story or part of a story. It may be spoken, written or imagined, and it will have one or more points of view representing some or all of the participants or observers
(Jameson)
Meta Narrative: Overriding background narrative taken as true, a narrative claiming universal applicability (historical?) context?
Meta Language: Higher level language that enables discussion of an object language(that assumes truth).(can address undecidabiliy)
Performative: concious choice of identification in present, c.f unconcious identification (inherited, manipulated)
(c.f Austin, Butler?)
Random Expressive Flow: allowance of a stream of expression (vocal/movement) without imposing conceptual criticism .(may be combined with specific focus) c.f Stream of conciousness
Maciunas, Deleuze, Csíkszentmihályi
Art Movements: Fluxus, Surrealism, DaDa, No-Wave, Expressive Art Therapy
Reification: association of state of identification (performative?) with specific form of consumption (product)
(Marx?)
Stigmergy : a spontaneous, indirect coordination of actions, where the result of one action stimulates the performance of a subsequent action.
Stigmergy : a spontaneous, indirect coordination of actions, where the result of one action stimulates the performance of a subsequent action.
System: That which one chooses to define as a seperate entity by placing a boundary around it . (defined by the subject/discourse)
System2"The 'system' is no longer some part of the world which is to be engineered or optimized, the 'system' is the process of enquiry itself." Checkland & Scholes 1990
System2"The 'system' is no longer some part of the world which is to be engineered or optimized, the 'system' is the process of enquiry itself." Checkland & Scholes 1990
Undecidability: A statement that undermines itself eg "this statement is false"
(Postmodernist claims to be against 'grand narratives' could be argued to fit into this catagory) Habermas calls this a performative contradiction?
Univocity: (Deleuze), an always-differentiating process, an origami cosmos, always folding, unfolding, refolding. Deleuze summarizes this ontology in the paradoxical formula "pluralism =monism".[2]
Validity: (link p393 Denzin & Lincoln)
Weltanshuung - an individuals particular world view - perspective - assumption set
c.f episteme (Foucault)
