Documentation at
http://www.informatik.umu.se/seminarier/2002/1016021700-1016028000.mit-huset.mc413
http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/SysTechnCalls.html and
http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/SysTechn.html

Complementary documentation on sensing-based bodily computer interaction at
http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/SysTechnBodyMind.html

1. Seminar: the word, my heritage, the organization, the questions
1. Nothing "ready to hand" but, rather, heritage for exploration
2. Links to previous seminars and departmental work (quoted)
3. Partial professorial testament (after /~kivanov/PerspSem2000.html)
4. Not intended to cover at once all the following contents
5. Reason for not detailing my former seminar of November 14th
6. The responsibilities of the mid-generation (my first students)
7. During the seminar: the semantics (syntax+pragmatics at the end)
2. To "understand" (info) technology? Its essence? Its meaning? Its use?
1. To understand understanding. Meaning beyond semiotics
2. To use to attain good goals, or to relate historically and to others
3. To encompass more, without discarding (as meaningless)
4. Cf. link to homepage /~kivanov/chuindex.html (or .pdf)
3. The shift of emphasis from politics (economy) and ethics
1. No teleology (but "purposeful actions")
2. Truth, good & beauty vs. credibility, authenticity, acceptability,usability
4. Webs of meaning (-creation) or Weltanschauung
1. Logical webs and "software" implications (semiotic syntax)
1. Example: notions of design-theory itself (hope for coherence)
2. The insertion of technology as freezing or blackboxing
3. The importance of blackboxing in falsification of web fragments
4. Keep close? (to technology) or conscious? Danger of un-conscious
2. Empirical webs and "technical" objects (semiotic semantics)
1. Cf. "gadgets" and "properties" or attributes of a technology
3. Cf. teleological objects (semiotic pragmatics)
1. Cf. example of "submarine" or "address" as time-space object
4. Technology in competing logical consensus-webs (double.interact)
5. Technology in conflicting webs (actor network)
6. Trade-off of conflict before or after innovation-diffusion, invention-exploitation
1. A priori consensus (Locke or Japanese mythology)
2. A posteriori a-political consensus or shared understanding or interpretive community - of practice (Actor network)
3. A-political dialectics (Weick ambiguity vs commonsense)
4. Democracy of majority, and balancing (e.g. privacy vs. debate)
5. Continuous dialectics (Hegel, Marx, Singer-Ivanov hypersystem)
6. Cf. Paul Dourish 's 3 aspects of meaning: ontology, intersubjectivity, intentionality
7. Cf. Paul Dourish 's 3 aspects of meaning
1. Ontology (Weltanschauung), intersubjectivity (consensus), intentionality (objects and teleology)
2. No ethics, no politics, no evaluation
3. In "Where action is: The foundations of embodied interaction"
4. Cf. the politics of Merleau-Ponty
5. The links of the webs
1. Logical sentences: subject, predicate, relations
2. Corresponding concept of information (systems)
3. Links as logical implication (if-then), and insertion of technology
4. Links as pragmatist production SDOW
6. SDOW -Umbrella example
1. For design vs. for use of umbrella
2. Latest example: alternatives for Informatics room-space
3. Aristotle (-Kant) base of Western thought, science, law)
1. Ethics, metaphysics, ontology (possibility, actuality)
2. Formalis and materialis vs.efficient and finalis
3. Techne vs. phronesis (making vs. doing/acting)
4. Ethics of law: Responsibility, guilt (and sin!)
5. Democracy based on rights and responsibilities
6. Vs. "fitting the internal logic of the situation"
4. Technology as transformation of inputs into output
5. Determinism, probability, and teleology
6. Structure or morphology, function, teleology
7. Assumptions, presuppositions
8. Description of activities (verksamhetsbeskrivning)
9. Body structure, and physiology (Merleau-Ponty)
10. Cause and action, and interaction (inter-response!)
11. Context as environment (possibly outputted by other SDOW)
12. Infra-structure
1. Capital, fixed costs (Marxism)
2. Platforms standards
3. Effect on innovation (Sachs & Broholm "Hypertrophy")
13. Change and situationism:
1. Of situation as environment (Åother SDOW's output)
2. Of technology or insight in new possible D's
3. Of clients (their goals)
4. Of perceptions or knowledge (of S's)
5. As non-linearities (new S or new D)
6. As moral instability (cf. promise and law for business)
7. As renouncing to the 5% in favor of the determined 95%
14. Change as feedback escalation
15. Flexibility, bricolage and improvisation
1. Somebody always "succeeds" in random competition
16. Shift and drift (function creep) as superficial consensus
17. Innovative exploration, and exploitation
18. Technological frames, windows of opportunity
19. Activity theory, history, and objectified history
20. History and power vs future in syntheses and progress
21. Not question of detailed planning
1. Prudence from pro-videntia Å foresight [för-siktighet]
2. Cf. ex. of departmental room-space
22. Technology as blackbox around web-fragments,
1. Inscript, disclose, interprete (cf. inscribe in system definition)
2. A way to disclose truth (about reality)
3. Analogue to "prejudices" or "traditions", or "trust-faith"?
23. From SDOW to SYSTEM (Churchman et al., 1975)
1. Cf. the transformation of SDOW into "game theory" or "inter-action" (inter-response)!
2. (In Swedish:) "samlad bedömning" eller "se det här i hela sitt stora sammanhang"
3. Thinking for decisions: Deductive quantitative methods
4. Inscriptions in the definition of system itself
5. Integrating statistics and business economics & "capital"
6. The costs of ones are the incomes of others!
7. The Design of Inquiring Systems (ncremental technology)
8. Systems transcend "chains of links or branches of trees"
7. The ethics or theology of webs of meaning
1. Leibniz: Webs struggle
1. Approximate the ultimate encompassing divine web
2. Why fascination (lockelse) of mathematical net-beauty
2. Locke: Biblical ends vs. empirical means
1. Consensual expertness of democratic representation
2. Balance between privacy and open debate (my SAF)
3. Hegel: The ethics of legitimate passionate convictions
1. Approximation to ideal as "Absolute Mind" or ideal truth
2. Marxist approximation to stateless society
4. Kantian aesthetics as bridge between technology and ethics (figures)
5. Singer: Pragmatist empirical good and powerful means
1. production, cooperation, progress
6. Cf. Kantian "pragmatism" and democracy as outgrowth of phronesis
7. Cf. play with "values" in design (/~kivanov/DesSysCulture.html)
8. Cf. Johnson's (Lakoff & Johnson) "transperspectivity"
8. Aesthetics as religion (beyond science and philosophy)
1. The ambiguity of SDOW-outcomes vs. goals vs. pleasure
9. Desires, desiderata, intentions, needs, will, goals, objectives, means-ends, ideals, values, feelings
1. Aristotle's theology (Eth. Eud., 1247a-1249b)
2. Aristotle simplified with loss of 2000 years
1. Heideggerian pre-Socraticsor Buddhist theology without God
2. Aristotle without Aquinas and Kant
3. Body and perceptions (Merleau-Ponty)
4. Sophistry and rhetorics of seduction as "feelgood" factor (Swedish: Hans Larsson's "gottköpsintuition")
5. Democracy, equality or cooperative friendship of double interact
3. Seducing technology: attract and destruct
4. Kantian critiques (figures)
1. Aesthetics as bridge between science and ethics
2. Play and flow, vs. sublime
3. Play and virtuality vs. conflict (cf. power play of actor networks)
4. The relations or hierarchies of arts vs. multimedia
5. Nussbaum's upheavals of thought & intelligence of emotions
1. Reinstate feeling as a moral compass (C.Rudbeck DN020212)
2. Evil must be tone-deaf (Mahlers 2nd symphony); cf. Beethoven 1940
3. My seminar (+ refs.) on ethics of systems and design (011114)
4. My earlier seminar on postmodernism
6. Aestheticism
1. Homo Aestheticus, by Luc Ferry
2. Spirit and Beauty: Introduction to theological aesthetics, by Patrick Sherry
10. Alternatives?
1. My alternative, coherent with above
1. The Design of Inquiring Systems (DIS)vs.Kant's Third Critique
2. Aesthetics in Luc Ferry as representing Nietzsche
3. Prudence (phronesis) Aubenque (vs. Dunne and Pirsig or chinese thought)
4. Carl Jung, and positive/negative unconscious (& perception, etc.)
5. Carl Jung "individuation": theology of "become what you are"
6. Prudence in context of biblical Conscience (http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc.htm)
7. "Faith between knowledge and feeling" (Ratzinger)
8. "Veritatis Splendor" and "Fides et Ratio" (/~kivanov/PerspSem2000.html)
2. Others' alternatives
1. Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bergson, Larsson, Merleau-Ponty, Lakoff & Johnson, Latour, Weick
2. François Jullien (Ivanov & Ciborra, 1998)
3. I Ching, and Bhagavadgita (/~kivanov/PerspSem2000.html)
11. The paradox of the "right" or better alternative
1. The Design of Inquiring Systems
1. Chap. 12 "Implementation: An experience in education"
12. My references:
1. Links to my home page
2. In my Public-folder (Kristo-Mac) or on server
1. Jupiter-Diverse-GemensammaOriginal-Ivanov-IvanovMainLibrary or IvanovPotentialLibrary. See also EndNote Preferences for display of "Custom 1" field