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




Thursday, 11 November 2010

Essay Positions

I decided to choose the positions of:

Pragmatism: Kelly (Expectation, Personal Construct Psychology) : Rep grid / Self Characterisation

Critical/Transformative: Habermas (System/lifeworld), Fairclough (Ideology), Butler (Performativity) and Deleuze (re Whole systems/Emergence)
Tool:  (Critical Discourse Analysis/Critical Language Study)

Constructivism: Derrida- Deconstruction

(using Cresswell's Research Catagories (from reading list)

why? because each of the selected  authors are difficult to place within the narrower catagories from the lecture series:

This lead however to a conflict size: 4000 words  (I have 15000)

So I have to choose between those covered :

Positivism (No) ( has been replaced by post positivism)

Phenomenology (no) although Kelly has been placed here

Structuralism - (?) Kelly has been placed here

Post Structuralism ((YES)  - Derrida, (Kelly is also considered a constructivist) - Deconstruction

Post Marxism (YES) - Habermas/Deleuze/Butler - Critical Discourse Analysis


I will state in my essay that I do not consider the catagory system/taxonomy an adequate set of catagories  in which to place these authors...

to quote Derrida "can I say what is my position? I can say what I am stating now"
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