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, 4 March 2011

Decisions, Binary Opposites and Post Structuralism

If Post structuralism always implies that the subject is determined in and through language (Best on Foucault) then I don't agree it's the best way of addressing the dualism of language.  Language implies concepts with boundaries and binary distinctions.... My belief is that  a more appropriate stance to our shared ecological situation is that our experience emerges from a collective source beyond the distinctions and judgements of language, and all it's potential conflicts. This aspect is esssentially a shared inclusive nature that we may occasionally experinece/access by remaining open to such an emergent shared optimum, and dont get drawn in to evaluative language games and distinctions. It's about conceptual, social and physical space...


Perhaps some post structuralist Authors take this view, Deleuze seems to share aspects of this view according to my reading of Delanda. 


Perhaps the post structuralist turn language back on itself to point us towards the false closures and potential openings beyond the blunt instrument of language?


Perhaps as in the post below discourse structures can be analysed to identify patterns that encourage reification and normalisation of the forms of reproduction a the expense of our souls freedom?


On a reflexive level I'm not sure I can cope with the apparently mighty battles of post structural language games as Kathleen says I need to pick an author I get on with... 


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