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




Monday, 26 September 2011

Current Stance Updated Sept 2011

1. General/Living Systems Theory - Emergence - Wholeness (Vickers,  Von Bertalanffy)

2. Post Structural - Openness of Potential of reading  (Barthes), and  movement  Massumi)
(c.f Derrida - My reading of Derrida  is that  closed systems of Language/Concepts can restrict/filter our view - c.f. Appreciative Judgement Vickers of a multilayerd ground  of inclusive value(c.f 1) 
( While language offers some  freedoms of interpretation it also can shutter out/bias  our view of eg Wholeness/Self similarity/Emergence (BwO)  - some forms of post structuralism attempt to deny any common ground of being ( )- I consider that while this can free the local from some  general  metanarratives it can also enclose the 'individual' subject in an isolated  'free' position, susceptible to 'textual' and symbolic  forces of positioning . Perhaps the emphasis on this is due to capital forces, perhaps it is  due to binary basis of the linguisitic concept.
3. The forces of capital also tend to  impose a closure on thought, movement and the subject? (Fairclough, Gramsci ), eg by appropriating aspects of  General Systems  and Complexity theory for their own exclusive purposes (eg Hyeck -  neoliberal 'free market' ideology)
Also by:
Allowing / promoting forms of Opennes/Creativity/Freedom that maximise  flows of capital(Massumi) - Internal Combustion engine etc
Reducing/ stereotyping by allusion (Wodak) forms of Openness/Creativity/Freedom that don't maximise capital flows.
c.f Inclusive Value <> Comparative Value (Marx)

Hence a need for Critical Theory -  Habermas(1971 )  (They also address the binary with ideas such as Unity in Diversity (Ref)
And a Theory of "the Other" Derrida / Habermas  

This suggests a balance of certain Post Structural insights (re constituative?) and understanding of Ideology/hegemony from the likes of Habermas.


> Critical Discourse Analysis - Fairclough (1989,   )
> Wodak - (2006)
> Van Djik 


Barthes (1977),Image,Music, Text Hill et al :New York.
Derrida J (1976)Of Grammatology, trans. (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press
Fairclough N. (1989) Discourse and Social Change 
Habermas J. (1971) Knowledge and Human Interests, 











Vickers, Sir Geoffrey (1995) The Art of Judgment – A Study of Policy Making. Sage 
Publications.
Wodak R, Pragmatics and Critical discourse Analysis


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