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 24 March 2012

The limits of binary classification? notes


What are the limits on the application of  binary measurement systems?
e.g. logics based on an excluded middle

If we are insistent on applying a binary classification system to  a continuum
especially if we feel we are identified with one pole in an either or situation
we appear to have no choice but to assign an absolute negative value to the other pole.

This is likely to lead to conflict…

It is the product of a lack of wisdom of how measuring systems (relatively simple designed abstract systems logics) 
relate to  the systems to which they are being applied  i.e. often to  complex living systems

The fact that the things being measured are of a type both susceptible to measurement makes them an order of magnitude more similar than they are because of the category applied…?




this relates to queer theory
logical typing 


Refs 


http://research.barcelonagse.eu/tmp/working_papers/528.pdf


Fischer Resolcing the theoretical ambiguities with reference to polarization and conflict.


Kreisberg,Northrup Thorson "Intrractable conflicts and their Transformation"


Schon &Rein

Frame reflection: "

toward the resolution of intractable policy controversies"


tle: High Technology and Low-income Communities : Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology

Author: Schön, Donald A.

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