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, 18 November 2010

Post Structuralism


2 )is concerned with philosophical issues such as the nature of "truth" and conceptions of the individual.

3) While structuralists conceive of the "subject" as the socially determined centre of consciousness, post-structuralists "de-centre" the subject by claiming that "the self" is constitutedthrough signifying practices situated within social discourse. c.f binary dualism knowledge/random expressive flow = Emergent wisdom? Madness?

4) language is always fluid and meaning can never be recovered completely.
stereotyping, premptiming - provisional concepts theories

5) , there is no absolute authority for knowledge or "truth"; there is only interpretation which produces meaning by the interaction of a reader with a text.
Idealistic - so if forced into to in a death camp by nazi soldiers its my responsibility to ",  "love the dancing girls in the smart uniforms.."
+ provides a perspective of potential freedom. essential?

6) Since language is the ultimate source of meaning, then all claims to "truth" are treated as products of discursive struggles for power. 
assumes there is struggle hence assumes power is not everywhere?
only truth? doesn't this bias us away from anaylsing evidence of power/exploitation
c.f sophistry debate socrates    
c.f modernity juggernaught- 'dont look and it will be ok.
fits well with american dream

7) Post-structuralists search for contradictions and multiple meanings in a text or aim to expose the power relations within language, discourse and representation

assumed imposed boudaries, distinction, taxonomies, types






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