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




Thursday, 12 April 2012

Logical Typing and dualistic/binary coding of the English Language

Logical typing (Varela)  could be argued to be an attempt to deal with an elitism and  exclusion) inherent in the dualistic/binary coding of our language system.(c.f. criticism of logical typing as elitist and consequence exclusion from poststructural thought (+ref)

Towards the separation of part from whole  (see Deleuze (1972) for his attempts to compensate with "positive difference" the  foetal BwO)

c.f the flat plane (Hicks 2005) , silos, and division of labour  into auto-poetic expert technical communities/department that lack of inter community intelligence... ?  e.g. the various social and technical crises

It is concerned with the difference between absolute opposition and complimentarily in language ( i.e. re :difference between living and non living abstract systems that has been abandoned by post structural theory)

 c.f Valera(1991)

(i.e. it is a meta-marking of difference)

Re: programming languages : 'reflexivity (and reflection*) depends" on having a weakly typed language (Foote B.) ( if positions are not fixed functionally  then a program can rewrite its's code): perhaps there is a motivation to ensure typing has been removed from the english language...? My position is that the public should be made aware of any such programming capacity. and how it is being used... (c.f the aims of  Discourse Analysis)

c.f object orientation

why? clarity of definition>
efficient diagnosis and prescription (technocratic definition of rationality Instrumental rationality(Habermas)) <> (binary reductionism + prejudice + fixing of subject position+exclusion (Foucault))... 


*How do we Bridge this opposition?
c.f extending conceptions of 'rationality' to include a freedom of subject position and valuing inclusive listening* (a dynamic example of which is the random journey) 

Deleuze uses the term "Positive Difference": a different term for complementarity...that includes oppositional difference, again levels of typing are mixed so the complexity leads to confusion, perhaps this is the translation....


Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. 1972. Capitalism and Schizophrenia. 2 vols. 1972-1980. Trans. of L'Anti-Oedipe. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit. ISBN 0826476953.
Hicks S.R.,  Explaining Postmodernism - Rousseau to Foucault
*Brian Cantwell Smith, Procedural Reflection in Programming Languages, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD Thesis, 1982.
 Brian C. Smith. Reflection and semantics in a procedural language. Technical Report MIT-LCS-TR-272, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., January 1982.
Varela, F., Thompson, E. and E. Rosch (1991). The embodied mind. Cambridge, M.A.: The MIT Press.
Varela, F., Maturana, H. R. and R. Uribe (1974). Autopoiesis: The organization of living systems, its characterization and a model. Biosystems, Vol. 5, No. 4.
Brian Foote's Pages on Reflection in Smalltalk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_(computer_programming)
http://log.reflectivesurface.com/2004/09/01/programming-aesthetics-and-religion/

http://www.sourceintegralis.org/VarelaUroboros.htm

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