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




Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Hegemony in the context of a concept of "Random Expressive Flow"?

Random Expressive Flow(c.f Stream of Conciousness(Ref)): Essentially a term I chose for its empowerment potential and width of application from concept to poetry to improvised performance. As a means of exploring self-organising potential...(Swimme+ Refs)




If we think in terms of  Hegemony ( Gramsci,Van Djik) :
It could become associated exclusively with Extrovert 'Bombastic Performance', or with Introverted Intuitive Poetic Exploration. It could be associated with "Becoming animal" Deleuze and hence a threat to social norms in a positive (Ref) and negative (Panoptican(Foucault)). It could be considered a dangerously 'anarchic' threatening concept opening up space for potential exploitation (eg feminist criticism of free art movements(Ref)).  ]


I am probably simplifying - I read a quote "Hegemony can only be  identified once a situation is closed, while it remains open there is nothing solid to be hegemonized"(ref)? is this true..if so there lies the boundrary between post marxism and post structuralism... the boundary that isn't a boundary, it rests on the issue of closure. (The process/assumption of closure being the essential focus?)
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