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




Saturday, 19 February 2011

Habermas : Surrealist revolt

The project of modernity remains incomplete, and in the uncertainty of the postmodern age the unity that Habermas seeks shows no signs of being realised. Life is increasingly fragmented, and to many observers the artistic community seems to retreat further into sterile abstraction and pretentious conceptualisation with every 'controversial' exhibition or statement. Lyotard argues that this specialisation proves it is impossible to present a total world view, but other more cynical observers, like the critic Donald Judd feel that "the elaboration of the term 'postmodern' is not due to real change but to naked fashion and the need to cover it with words" [26]. The modernity project is incomplete, and it is hard to see circumstances in which the degree of reunification that Habermas seeks could occur. It is, however, far more comforting to think it possible than to have to concede, with Lyotard, that we have no choice but to theorise our ineffectiveness into a postmodern sublimity and abandon ourselves to an aestheticising of the chaos around us.


http://www.voiceoftheturtle.org/show_article.php?aid=84


I am not happy with the modern/post-modern  split - the issue is meta rationality (communicative rationality - communicative disscourse) in the case of Habermas.... the revolt needed to be in tandom with an argument for a more inclusive rationality... was it ? I need to investigate more...
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