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Speak the World: Creating Ourselves as We Speak

January 25, 2012

Monologues

Monologues don’t exist. But sometimes we speak to ourselves, don’t we? And thinking? Isn’t it a kind of monologue? Some other times we apparently speak out in what seems to be a one-way communication. Even if we can argue that monologues do exist, this perceived one-way communication clearly don’t. That’s because our ability to speak [...]

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Conversations are Essential to the Construction of Collective Meaning

November 25, 2008

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Conversations are essential to the construction of collective meaning and creation of systems. For instance, one important characteristic of a system is its boundaries, without which we would not be able to distinguish it from its ‘environment’. If there is no distinction, something that we do through language, there is no system. Systems can change [...]

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Decision-Making and Automatisms

October 9, 2008

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I’ve got some questions about my last post on this affirmation: “the act of continuous decision-making requires an automatism”. Perhaps that a bad way of express what I mean. Decisions are not made by only responding, so what I really mean is that it is a great support for decision-making when we have a framework [...]

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