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, 27 September 2010

Performative : Butler: Constructivist<>Representative


The language may be saying something, claiming to express what it knows, but it may also be doing something else with the claim that it makes, riding the wave of an aim that is known only in the effects it seeks to achieve, in an utterance from "the other scene," in the particular ways it attempts to modify the interlocutory situation at hand. 


Butler
in
Felman, Shoshana. Scandal of the Speaking Body : Don Juan with J.L. Austin, 
Palo Alto, CA, USA: Stanford University Press, 2002. p 120.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ulincoln/Doc?id=10042908&ppg=142


shes talking about  constructivist and representative ?



The performative, understood as illocutionary, indicates reality, even transforms it, as a matter of course; it seeks to modify a situation, to have certain effects. It therefore has this situation as its necessary, if not constitutive referent. (The phenomenological word "horizon" perhaps describes this better than "referent.") Indeed, the instituting act cannot be conceived without this indicating function. 


in
Felman, Shoshana. Scandal of the Speaking Body : Don Juan with J.L. Austin, 
Palo Alto, CA, USA: Stanford University Press, 2002. p 122.




A speech act is reducible neither to the body nor to a conscious intention, but becomes the site where the two diverge and intertwine. In this sense, the speaking body scandalizes metaphysics, in particular, its penchant for clear dichotomies:


If the problem of the human act thus consists in the relation between language and body, it is because the act is conceived— by performative analysis as well as by psychoanalysis— as that which problematizes at one and the same time the separation and the opposition between the two.The act, an enigmatic and problematic production of the 
speaking body, destroys from its inception the metaphysical dichotomy between the domain of the "mental" and the domain of the "physical," breaks down the opposition between body and spirit, between matter and language, (p. 65)


Butler J Afterword
in

Felman, Shoshana. Scandal of the Speaking Body : Don Juan with J.L. Austin,  
Palo Alto, CA, USA: Stanford University Press, 2002. p 123.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ulincoln/Doc?id=10042908&ppg=145
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