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 5 July 2010

Lines of Flight- Deleuze

‘Line of flight’ is a concept used by Deleuze to explain rhizomatic thinking and the creation of paths or journeys of escape from the apparatus of capture found in the state formation. The apparatus of the state is primarily concerned with coding and inscribing all bodies. Lines of flight are attempts at deterritorialisation, or to escape the striated space of the state and move into smooth space. Striated space is confined space, but very loosely smooth space are spaces of freedom, without instrinsic properties and without pre-defined direction. To take an everyday example, think of young people who skateboard on the road, or people who ride bikes over walls and street stairs. In these simple examples they are deterritorialising the striated space established by the apparatus of capture, appropriating it for creative ends and ‘becoming something altogether different’. In other words, they are creating the conditions for smooth space whereby free action has the potential to occur.


http://www.salient.org.nz/features/body-without-organs-war-machine-huh
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