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[mosmanski]

“What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.”

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“A theory which focuses on the reader or audience reaction to a particular text, perhaps more than the text itself.”

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“A learning organization is a group of people working together collectively to enhance their capacities to create results they really care about.”

Five Characteristics:
1. Systems thinking
2. Personal mastery
3. Mental models
4. Shared vision
5. Team learning

[mosmanski]

“The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel.”

This stuck out to me since we are learning bout reader-response theory. The author intended the book to mean one thing, but the audience understood it differently. The audience attached meaning to the book from which it is now inseparable.

[mosmanski]

“Coetzee is drawn into the embodied world of fictional narrative along an intellectual and philosophical route not habitually taken by female authors of the past and thus feels more affinity with male writers”

[ISABELLAOLCZAK]

Letter 63: Thoughts, the morning after thanksgiving
OTHER;used to refer to a person or thing that is different or distinct from one already mentioned or known about.

[ISABELLAOLCZAK]

Letter 65;Mutation/Motion (345)
Vilem Flusser
“Forecasts either the first truly human, infinitely creative society in history or a society of unbearable, oppressive sameness, locked in a pattern it cannot change.”

[mosmanski]

“System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a 'super system' that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that cannot be seen in any of its constituent parts. This is the process called ‘emergence.’”

[mosmanski]

Even a lack of sounds conveys a message.

[mosmanski]

“Failure or refusal to cooperate, especially as a form of protest.”

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“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”

[mosmanski]

“The intellectual is and only can be a militant, engaged as a singularity among others, embarked on the project of co-research aimed at making the multitude. The intellectual is thus not 'out in front' to determine the movements of history or 'on the sidelines' to critique them but rather completely 'inside.’”