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, 3 April 2012

Bridging Concepts: Where are they?



Bridging or Complementary concepts are an attempt to compensate for a languages bias towards dualism. Living systems exhibit complimentarily and self similarity, language systems exhibit duality and opposition.

An example is a concept of "Everything Being Anything"  another the "All in All"

These are philosophical attempts to compensate for an essential inclusive connection that can be lost/obscured by  language systems built on binary foundations, they remind us that the wholeness is not separate from the part...that the excluded middle is a problem with language, not with us.

Where are they, are there any? If not why not?

It could be worth exploring if such concepts were central to certain theoretical stances, cultures etc , but perhaps got lost /discarded /excluded in certain disputes, perhaps  between those concerned with inclusivity, the inherent and emergent and those concerned with language and construction.
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