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




Monday, 12 July 2010

Personal Constructs, Binary Oppositions and Deconstruction

Lupton (1994) notes that western culture since plato / aristotle has been govened by various linguistic oppositions, and has valued one side of the them over the other. One of the tasks of Deconstruction has been to identify these oppositions. Identify the dominant terms and redress the balance.
We all have our own biases which can be identified in terms of such oppositions
They can be explored using the methods of Personal Construct Psychology They can be used in a number of ways, in relation to primary secondary, and tertiary research data for example:
Researching and Identifying popular dualities/binary oppositions in regard to the constructs Linguistic Flow.

To restate, it is possible to explore the definition an individual has of "Knowledge" (Form) and "Intuition"(Flow), are these considered opposite? Is knowledge a part of intuition , or intuition a part of knowledge?

Is knowledge a dirty word? (e.g. INTUITION /Squareness ;)? Is intuition a dirty word? (e.g. KNOWLEDGE<<'irrelevance'>]<'madness'> ). Here is depicted the drift towards logocentrism: where one side of the duality is exclusively valued as positive (good) and the other negative(bad), or perhaps less fundamentally? Normal – Abnormal, and Boring – Interesting]. 

Is it possible to faciilitate the individual to explore other, perhaps complimentary constructs?
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