Posted in modern views, psychology, social psychology on Oct 24th, 2006 No Comments »
I had reason to recently provide a colleague with a primer on Social Constructionism. Diving into a stack of papers and rooting through the web, it brought back memories. Good ones too: I’m not a doctrinaire anything let alone a social constructionist, yet it is, viewed philosophically, a very respectable meta-methodology in my book, and, […]
Posted in Gregory Bateson, coherencies, consciousness, critical culture, modern views, new paradigms, philosophy, science, sociology on Jul 18th, 2006 No Comments »
Yeah, What Bateson said.
From a Batesonian perspective, it is the way we classify, make distinctions, and make sense of things that is fundamental. If it is the distinctions we ourselves make that are causes, then it is how we process information and map the territory that explains. Within this framework, any explanation or scientific activity […]
Posted in critical culture, current events, modern views, politics on Apr 25th, 2005 No Comments »
We shall examine whether the perennial anxiety that accompanies imperial hegemony in the New World might be a compensatory gesture for the originary Ishmaelite fate of castoffs relentlessly clamoring for re-integration into the mainline genealogical history as the chosen people. In the insistent regularity with which those serviceable simplicities of self-identity reify, essentialize, and globalize […]
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