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




Friday, 24 September 2010

Capitalism and the Performative?

Capitalism would like to own the performative?
Capitalism needs the performative to be owned?
Capitalism is just another performance?
Capitalism obscures the performative so it can be used to control discursive communities?
Capitalism requires that the relation between representational knowledge and the performative is considered "just academic"
Capitalism promotes the idea of the performative as  property?
Capitalism uses the performative (celebrity - cult of personality)

Performative: identity as performance Butler J
c.f performative utterance Austin J
Language games, Discursive communities

What do Marxists say about this...?
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