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




Wednesday, 5 January 2011

The "body without organs": Deleuze... an interpretation


Deleuze has promoted the term "body without organs"  in relation to creative potential...

"When you will have made him a body without organs,
then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions
and restored him to his true freedom. [1]"

 there have been many interpretations of this


For me the "body without organs" is a term that brings to light the reductionist bias in naming... that labels the part while ignoring the whole.... it counters this by labelling the whole while ignoring the part (the parts are still there, they are just labelled as the whole)

is the hand just a hand or is it the body ? of course it is both! 

and likewise,  are we an individual or are we humanity? of course we are both!? ...

why is this so difficult to grasp the second  while the first is obvious? are we being programmed to deny that...?
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