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, 20 November 2014

The Systems View of Life

"As communications continue in a social network, they form multiple feedback loops, and eventually a shared system of beliefs and of values emerges — a common context of meaning, known as culture; and thus the social network becomes a community. I discuss the origin of the term “culture” and its interesting dynamics, as culture emerges from a network of communications and then puts constraints on that network. (Section 14.4.2)" Capra F.   The Systems View of Life

"through culture individuals acquire identities and restrict behaviour"

"a set of shared values defines the community and the culture also creates a boundary of the community and this boundary is continually maintained and renegotiated by the network itself."

"meaning is essential to human beings and meaning is always related to context, meaning is an experience of context, an understanding of context"
"social networks produce a cultural boundary that imposes constraints on the behavior of its members. (Section 14.4.4)" Capra F.
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