This is rhetoric, perhaps even rhizorhetoric, at it’s best
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I want to frame my comments in the distinction between reductionist thought and complexity thought, a habit of mind I attribute to Edgar Morin’s book On Complexity
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I find the fourth view, the one from Foucault, to be the most engaging, as it approaches a complex view of power
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first three views of power assume a Classical, simple (not simplistic, but not complex, either) epistemology
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“‘Power’ in its most generic sense simply means the capacity to bring about significant effects: to effect changes or prevent them.”
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The One-dimensional View posits two agents disjoined from one another, and power occurs when one agent prevails in some way over the other agent
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The Two-dimensional view adds agenda control by the more powerful agent, and finally, the Three-dimensional view adds social influence
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it also encompasses being able to secure their dependence, deference, allegiance or compliance, even without needing to act and in the absence of conflict.
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the successive views move in the direction of complexity, but they are always limited by a Classical epistemology that posits disjoined, discrete agents interacting in deterministic ways across or through clear boundaries, either in accordance with or in violation of some social contract or rules.
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power is the flow of energy, matter, information, and organization throughout a complex, multi-scale system
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an agent is formed and informed by the flows of energy, information, and organizational structures of the systems within which the agent lives and functions
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Power is the weave of the fabric we are all woven into, and it is difficult, often impossible, to isolate any single thread of power and to trace it back to a single cause.
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the more open the use and sharing of information, the more important it is to clarify how we expect that information to be used
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This is a fine example of a clear, classical social contract. Independent agents agree on boundaries and behaviors between themselves
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A complex view of power and reality—my view—says, however, that Frances is already part of the Rhizo14 group and the document
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Power as flows of energy, information, and organization have already woven us together in ways that I do not know how to disentangle.
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most views of plagiarism are based on the simple view of relationships among agents and social contracts
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ole authorship is a reductionist’s fiction, a useful fiction perhaps, but perhaps becoming less useful as online, open spaces emerge
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How to behave in an open community, then, where flows of power are unavoidable and many are uncontrollable, even unknowable
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if we don’t confront this problem, then we will continue to apply the old social contracts. I don’t think those social contracts alone can address the issue
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interested in learning how this group will write this document. Like all good ethnographers, I think I can learn most by living and functioning within the group, by helping to write it. I want to define the process from the inside
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But I think that Dave has just shown us that it is possible in an online environment.
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I don't always feel that way. Sometimes I feel it is a guiding hand, but after two of these rhizo things I am beginning to think of it as a shving hand in a cattle chute. The chutes only appear down, but the binaries still suggest two paths: objective/subjective, content/no content, dave/no dave and whatever the hell the other one was. This is not rhizomatic teaching.
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Dave has done a good job of modeling rhizomatic teaching
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the teacher is the gardener
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If Dave is the Gardener,then the way he weeds is to point to the weed and say, "Isn't that interesting?". Irresponsible? Unethical? Bait and switch? Not sure. Personally, I am much more drawn to Heraclitus and Voltaire. For the latter the world is in flux and idiosyncratic as can be and for the latter he has Candide say, "That is very well put, but we muct cultivate our garden." We must be our own gardeners.
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#rhizo15 needs Dave Cormier
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I have some kind of sense for it
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Enough
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Deleuze and Guattari
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we should get rid of dave
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spontaneity
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Dunno, the videos seem pretty scripted to me. He has an agenda and wants to get it out there. The community has been guided by each week's prompts, using it as a jumping off point but not really going too far from fold. I wanted to see much more rebellion and spontaneous, adhoc-osity. I tried, but no one paid me any mind. Par.
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Of course it is the gardner who decides between the weeds and “flowers”, sets the parameters of the garden, and ultimately decides who lives and who dies – but that is my next blog post.
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I agree that the gardener controls but I think it is illusory. Who plucks the gardener? Who tends the gardener? Who weeds the gardener? The gardener lives in a larger system that subsumes the garden, a larger Garden. The gardener thinks he is managing the complexity that is the garden. Fools paradise for a sock puppet?
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Spontaneity and the Metaphor of the Gardner