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, 8 October 2010

Habermas

Main Distinctions:


  • Lifeworld/ System (215)
    • Lifeworld as potentially rational discussion of ends and means (ideal speech situation)


  • Claim Making & Consensus / Background Assumptions (pp220)



  • Communicative Rationality/Instrumental Rationality


3 types of validity claims


  • Truth (Science) / Normative (Social/Moral) /Subjective (Phenomenol- Authenticity/Sincerity)

Layder 218


Which areas of lifeworld susceptible to colonisation by system (power&capital&state) which are not - empirical research




Considered Objectivist/Modernist - Layder questions this


Habermas has been criticised for his emphasis on language, rational communication and reason, and negelecting the unconcious and the role of emotion.. (by lyotard foucalt etc) Layder 229 -237

However these factors (emotional and artistic nature) are  what Habermas claims that instrumental rationality denies people through its colonisation of the lifeworld...
also due to forces of mystification through expert interests ( c.f Latour Black box)


Layder on Habermas
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