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, 7 June 2012

Cultural Stacks and the Temporal, Emergent Dimension



Adding a temporal dimension enables a depiction of emergence as 'individual's' subject positions can then change, emergence can be explored and depicted (c.f Foucault's work). Here for example.. we could consider  the danger (to mutual progress via evolution of subject position) of the  forces such as that of ridicule:  of attempting to replace a temporal (diachronic) space of  forgiveness based on natural complementary and shifting, permeable boundaries of natural evolutionary forces with the constructed absolute oppositions/fixed boundary of a form of  'humor' based on static (perhaps visual) caricature which only considers the ...'current (synchronic) structure', the dynamics of this can be depicted..and compared...

Perhaps the bias of those  subject position's (and their maintenance) that rely on absolute  binary opposition   are susceptible to  utilizing such forces.. as they may visualize any potential realm of alternatives as itself  a single  absolute opposition (to be avoided)?

Which positions are these? Forces of production that assume a negative ground?, Forces of material production, forces of literary production ? (c.f. extending distinction). Forces of popularization?
Forces of digitalization?

A strong position in the encoded hierarchy of the current situated structure...?

(Is there a difference between such a strong position founded on binary opposition and the force of  globalized corporate capital? - Chomsky would say there isn't?)


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