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




Wednesday 22 December 2010

Re Discourse Analysis : Creative Facilitation

Discourse Analysis


1) The focus of discourse analysis should be local points of power rather than centralized forms to show how power functions daily through normalized techniques and procedures.

OK 


2) Analysis should focus on the material or practicaleffects of power rather than a search for its origins.

OK

3) Power should be analyzed as operating independently of particular persons; individuals are only the conduits through which power moves.

OK


4) Studies should portray power as ascending from the lowest levels of society (the family, schools, etc.) rather than descending from above.
? this allows for potential but does it adequately acknowledge the internalisation of oppressive power structures 
(Foucault) re access to inherent resources

5) Power should not be treated as ideology, but instead as the rules and instruments that produce what is accepted as "truth".

? "Ideology"    technologies of the self?  conceptual apparatus > expert systems?
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