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

Representatinal knowledge and the Performative

A delicate relationship
prone to stereotyping?
c.f Jung Cognitive Types

Knowledge type may stereotype performative type as facile?

Performative type may stereotype knowledge type as hesitant scared and divisive?


more importantly, the performative may see declarative statements as creative
(c.f. performative utterance) (acts of power?)


whereas knowledge types see them as neutral...


hence a performative may be reluctant to acknowledge an event / issue as they consider acknowledgement to be reconstruction...


what happens to politics? 
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