I want to start with a little movie that I made using a Google Chrome extension called Draftback. The movie is a playback of a group of Rhizo14 people writing The Untext last October, 2014. Unfortunately, Draftback does not capture formatting, images, or marginalia, but it does provide a point of view on the emergence of The Untext that I have not been able to generate any other way.I…
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Loading...I want to start with a little movie that I made using a Google Chrome extension called Draftback. The movie is a playback of a group of Rhizo14 people writing The Untext last October, 2014. Unfortunately, Draftback does not capture formatting, images, or marginalia, but it does provide a point of view on the emergence of The Untext that I have not been able to generate any other way.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In my previous post, I summarized Farzana Dudhwala’s article What is Actor-Network Theory?, but I didn’t really explore what it might mean for the rhizo14 collaborative autoethnography (CAE). I want to do that here.I start with Dudhwala’s first observation that for ANT, the social is a network of relations and “does not exist as an objective reality prior to the research having even begun” (3).…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In my previous post, I summarized Farzana Dudhwala’s article What is Actor-Network Theory?, but I didn’t really explore what it might mean for the rhizo14 collaborative autoethnography (CAE). I want to do that here.
I start with Dudhwala’s first observation that for ANT, the social is a network of relations and “does not exist as an objective reality prior to the research having even begun” (3).…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In her article What is Actor-Network Theory?, Farzana Dudhwala explores actor-network theory (ANT) in positive and negative ways: saying both what ANT does and, by contrast with traditional sociologists, what it does not do. She says that ANT practitioners differ from classical sociologists first in their concept of the social.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In her article What is Actor-Network Theory?, Farzana Dudhwala explores actor-network theory (ANT) in positive and negative ways: saying both what ANT does and, by contrast with traditional sociologists, what it does not do. She says that ANT practitioners differ from classical sociologists first in their concept of the social.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This post was extended by a Rhizo14 article and presentation, but that was fine as I learned some new stuff. But back to complexity ethics.
Transgressivity is the second of Woermann and Cilliers’ four mechanisms that reinforce and promote the critical attitude toward complex systems.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Woermann and Cilliers posit four mechanisms that reinforce and promote the critical attitude: provisionality, followed by transgressivity, irony, and imagination. To my mind, mechanism is an unfortunate term, as none of the four seem mechanical; rather, I would call them heuristics, having more to do with experimentation in contact with the real, as Deleuze and Guattari say it, than with a device…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I think I should say something about what I mean by the term ethics, especially as distinguished from morals. In fact, I do not distinguish much between ethics and morals; rather, I follow what Bruce Weinstein says about the distinctions between the two: “[J]ust about everyone understands that both ethics and morality have to do with identifying right conduct and good character.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So in my last post I introduced the idea that engagement of complex spaces such as in cMOOCs requires ethical choices. We must define the open, shifting space to make sense of it, deciding what is valuable and what is not, what is in, what is out, and how it should be arranged.…
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