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<div class="page-header" ><h1>Socialized reality</h1></div>
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<div class="page-header" ><h1>Five Insights: Socialized Reality</h1></div>
  
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<div class="col-md-3"><h4>Interests</h4></div>
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<li>Truth</li>
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<li>Reality</li>
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</li>Free choice</li>
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<li>Rational choice</li>
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<li>Epistemology</li>
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<li>Information, knowledge</li>
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<li>Pursuit of knowledge</li>
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<li>Social creation of truth and meaning</li> 
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<div class="col-md-3"><h4>Scope</h4></div>
 
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[[File:Ideogram-placeholder.jpg]]
Without even giving it a thought, we adopted from the traditional culture a myth incomparably more uncongenial and subversive than the myth of creation – that "truth" means "correspondence with reality". And that the purpose of information, and of knowledge, is to let us know "the truth"; to show us the reality "objectively", as it truly is.  
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This <em>ideogram</em> is only a placeholder. The real thing should be a house with failing foundation image but we can talk about that.
 
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<p>We look at the fundamental assumptions which we use to create truth and meaning. Which are, needless to say, the foundations of all we call "culture", and also more...</p>  
<div class="col-md-3">[[File:Bussy.jpg]]<br><small><center>The Modernity ideogram depicts our society as a bus with candle headlights.</center></small></div>
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<p>The point here is to see the visible, mushrooming... cracks in the walls as just <em>natural consequences</em> of a faulty foundation</p>.
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<div class="page-header" ><h2>The scope</h2></div>
 
 
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<div class="col-md-7"><p>The point here is threefold:
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<li>what we called "reality" is really our own that is, our <em>culture</em>'s creation</li>
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<li> "The correspondence with reality" of our ideas or models is <em>not</em> – however it may seem – something that can be rationally verified</li>
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<li>"The correspondence with reality" is – or needs to be seen as – a <em>pseudo-epistemology</em>; something which appears and works as a real [[epistemology|<em>epistemology</em>]] (valuation of knowledge based on knowledge of knowledge) – and yet keeps us bound to myths, prejudices, the [[power structures|<em>power structure</em>]]... </li>
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<div class="col-md-3"><h4>Corollary 1</h4></div>
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<div class="col-md-7"><p>"Reality" is a turf! This is one of the core points that Bourdieu left us. It's coded in the formula he keeps repeating, something like "the <em>habitus</em> is a structured structure and structuring structure ... The point is that once you structure the people's reality to be so and so (king is God's ordained ruler, and he owns it all)  – then this structure structures the reality for the next king to come. He doesn't need to do it again. </p>
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<p>The Odin the Horse [[vignette|<em>vignette</em>]] comes in here to point to the (potential or actual) absurdity of the turf strife. There may be NO "real" gains whatsoever in victories... only symbolic ones...</p>
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<div class="page-header" ><h2>The insight</h2></div>
 
 
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<div class="col-md-3"><h4>Corollary 2</h4></div>
<div class="col-md-7"><p>Text.</p>  
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<div class="col-md-7"><p>Academic tradition has brought us to the <em>mirror</em></p>
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<p>Socrates started the tradition of [[epistemology|<em>epistemology</em>]] – by instructing people to question the roots of their beliefs. Especially when they are power based. Galilei and others improved the method. The point here is that we need to do this again. Not be busy, but come back to basic questions of meaning and purpose. Stop and self-reflect.</p>  
 
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<div class="page-header" ><h2>The reversals</h2></div>
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<div class="col-md-3"><h4>Hint</h4></div>
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<div class="col-md-3"><h4>Reversals</h4></div>
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<li>Truth: It <em>can</em> be fixed – by using [[truth by convention|<em>truth by convention</em>]].</li>
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<li>Reality – Without thinking, from the traditional culture we have overtaken a myth incomparably more dangerous and disruptive than the myth of creation...</li>
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<li>Information, knowledge – become implicit... become <em>aspects</em> of things... </li>
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</li>Free choice, rational choice – the assumptions that served as foundation for some of our core institutions have proven to be false. We are <em>not</em> rational choice makers. We may <em>become</em> that – when people are properly informed, and taught proper use of knowledge. Educated to rely on knowledge of knowledge, not on appearances. How far we are from that blessed state of affaires! Just look at all the advertising...</li> 
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<li>Epistemology – It becomes [[design epistemology|<em>design epistemology</em>]]. The purpose of depicting reality as it really is falls down. The purpose where knowledge is a core component of our core systems rises and shines.</li> 
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<li>Pursuit of knowledge – knowledge is pursued through a <em>dialog</em>, not discussion; we keep our [[gestalt|<em>gestalt</em>]]s fluid and loose...</li>
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<li>Social creation of truth and meaning acquires a whole new meaning...</li> 
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<p>Bourdieu in Algeria. He saw two processes.</p>
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<p>The first was the "modernization" of Algeria. As the war ended, and independence resulted – a completely <em>new</em> set of dependencies emerged. The result was the same. But in a much more subtle way!</p>
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<p>The second was the destruction of culture. The Kabyle people ...</p>
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<p>This of course goes quite deep – into <em>personal</em> foundation of knowing. Instead of holding on to our beliefs, we keep them fluid. We remain creative... We co-create...</p>  
 
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<div class="page-header" ><h2>The action</h2></div>
 
 
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<div class="col-md-3"><h4>Federation, not puzzle solving</h4></div>
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<div class="col-md-7"><p>Multiple versions are possible, and also necessary. Keeping them relatively – yet not obligatorily – consistent and coherent is what we are calling [[knowledge federation|<em>knowledge federation</em>]], isn't it?</p>
 
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<div class="page-header" ><h2>The story</h2></div>
 
 
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<div class="col-md-3"><h4>Design epistemology</h4></div>
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<p>Design epistemology – information as systemic component</p>
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<p>Information is not only, or even primarily, the facts about... The lion's share is <em>implicit</em>...</p>  
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<p>[[design epistemology|<em>design epistemology</em>]]</p>  
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<p>[[implicit information|<em>implicit information</em>]] </p>  
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<div class="col-md-3 round-images">[[File:Peccei.jpg]]<br><small><center>Name</center></small>
 
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<div class="page-header" ><h2>Federation</h2></div>
 
 
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<p>The Knowledge Federation [[prototype|<em>prototype</em>]] is a complete model of an academic reality on the other side – created to help the self-reflection, and the transition to the new paradigm.</p>
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<p>Key point dialog</p>  
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* Back to [[five insights]].

Latest revision as of 13:56, 28 February 2020

Interests

  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Free choice
  • Rational choice
  • Epistemology
  • Information, knowledge
  • Pursuit of knowledge
  • Social creation of truth and meaning

Scope

Ideogram-placeholder.jpg

This ideogram is only a placeholder. The real thing should be a house with failing foundation image – but we can talk about that.

We look at the fundamental assumptions which we use to create truth and meaning. Which are, needless to say, the foundations of all we call "culture", and also more...

The point here is to see the visible, mushrooming... cracks in the walls as just natural consequences of a faulty foundation

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Insight

The point here is threefold:

  • what we called "reality" is really our own that is, our culture's creation
  • "The correspondence with reality" of our ideas or models is not – however it may seem – something that can be rationally verified
  • "The correspondence with reality" is – or needs to be seen as – a pseudo-epistemology; something which appears and works as a real epistemology (valuation of knowledge based on knowledge of knowledge) – and yet keeps us bound to myths, prejudices, the power structure...

Corollary 1

"Reality" is a turf! This is one of the core points that Bourdieu left us. It's coded in the formula he keeps repeating, something like "the habitus is a structured structure and structuring structure ... The point is that once you structure the people's reality to be so and so (king is God's ordained ruler, and he owns it all) – then this structure structures the reality for the next king to come. He doesn't need to do it again.

The Odin the Horse vignette comes in here to point to the (potential or actual) absurdity of the turf strife. There may be NO "real" gains whatsoever in victories... only symbolic ones...


Corollary 2

Academic tradition has brought us to the mirror

Socrates started the tradition of epistemology – by instructing people to question the roots of their beliefs. Especially when they are power based. Galilei and others improved the method. The point here is that we need to do this again. Not be busy, but come back to basic questions of meaning and purpose. Stop and self-reflect.


Reversals

  • Truth: It can be fixed – by using truth by convention.
  • Reality – Without thinking, from the traditional culture we have overtaken a myth incomparably more dangerous and disruptive than the myth of creation...
  • Information, knowledge – become implicit... become aspects of things...
  • Free choice, rational choice – the assumptions that served as foundation for some of our core institutions have proven to be false. We are not rational choice makers. We may become that – when people are properly informed, and taught proper use of knowledge. Educated to rely on knowledge of knowledge, not on appearances. How far we are from that blessed state of affaires! Just look at all the advertising...
  • Epistemology – It becomes design epistemology. The purpose of depicting reality as it really is falls down. The purpose where knowledge is a core component of our core systems rises and shines.
  • Pursuit of knowledge – knowledge is pursued through a dialog, not discussion; we keep our gestalts fluid and loose...
  • Social creation of truth and meaning acquires a whole new meaning...


Story

Bourdieu in Algeria. He saw two processes.

The first was the "modernization" of Algeria. As the war ended, and independence resulted – a completely new set of dependencies emerged. The result was the same. But in a much more subtle way!

The second was the destruction of culture. The Kabyle people ...

This of course goes quite deep – into personal foundation of knowing. Instead of holding on to our beliefs, we keep them fluid. We remain creative... We co-create...

Federation, not puzzle solving

Multiple versions are possible, and also necessary. Keeping them relatively – yet not obligatorily – consistent and coherent is what we are calling knowledge federation, isn't it?

Design epistemology

Design epistemology – information as systemic component

Information is not only, or even primarily, the facts about... The lion's share is implicit...

Prototypes

The Knowledge Federation prototype is a complete model of an academic reality on the other side – created to help the self-reflection, and the transition to the new paradigm.

Key point dialog