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"individuation, deconstruction, Don Schon: The Reflective Practitioner, Becoming" -- professor Dugal
September 10th 2019
Individuation (Gilbert Simondon): According to Simondon, individuation indicates that there is a state of stability and metastability, and it implies “the existence of a system in a state of equilibrium,” one that individuates entities; information in this system is “the difference in shape,” again “never a single term” but rather “the meaning that arises from a disparate.”

Deconstruction (Jacque Derrida): Jacque Derrida is the author of “Of Grammatology”, where he talks about “deconstruction”. Jacque Derrida describes deconstruction as, “Deconstruction by its very nature defies institutionalization in an authoritative definition. The idea of deconstruction is therefore concerned with countering the idea of a transcendental origin or natural referent. An approach to understanding the relationship between text and meaning”.

Don Schon: The Reflective Practitioner: Shon states, “reflective practice a practice by which professionals become aware of their implicit knowledge base and learn from their experiences.”

“The process of "becoming” aka become (Deleuze): Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher who wrote about philosophy, literature, film, and fine art, with his most famous works including; two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. “The process of "becoming” by Deleuze is , “not one of imitation or analogy, it is generative of a new way of being that is a function of influences rather than resemblances.

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Individuation (Gilbert Simondon)
- One is not inherently an individual, but rather attains individuality through the continual process of individuation.
- “A living being exists as only always a becoming between individuations, not as a becoming after individuation.”
- Defining and re-defining oneself and others relative to one another

Deconstruction (Jacques Derrida)
- Three key elements:
1. Logocentrism - the inherent desire to have a center, or focal point, to structure understanding
2. Nothing beyond the text - the reduction of meaning to set definitions that are committed to writing
3. Différance - how the reduction of meaning to writing captures opposition within that concept itself
- The meaning of the written word is not entirely derived from generally accepted definitions, but also from the unique ideas, concepts and images that each person associates with them.

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Letter 9 ““new forms of intimacy and friendship”
Runaway World’, the sociologist Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens explains “institutions are no longer able to offer us a clearly defined norms and values”. I found this very interesting because if we truly think about what we find as values and norms they've changed over time more rapidly now than ever. Today in society there is really no aspect that we can define as a norm or value that everyone holds the same opinion on.

Letter 10; “Theory of Assemblages”
The assemblage theory is an “ontological framework” developed by Guattari. It is essentially, relationships are formed through processes. It is called “constellation” by both Deleuze and Guattari. DeLanda uses this theory and applies it to economic, linguistic, and military history. The way we use this theory to explain how we form relationships varies and how this formation changes over time.

Letter 11: “Reassembling the Social”
Rabindranath Tagore whom is from India, was know for his poetry, fiction, drama, essays, and songs. He was known to be an amazing modern indian poet who captivated the reader. The poem “where the mind is without fear” was meant to symbolize true freedom for his country. It was a prayer to god.

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Class; October 1st 2019
Google Search: iated.org/inted
Quote that relates to me and stood out to me: “creating a learning culture and strategic cooperation opportunities”.

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Letter 12: “Meeting once again”
“Management of aesthetics of storytelling.”; “This idea of good and bad stories informs every aspect of management storytelling, which we illustrate by reviewing the functions of management storytelling”.

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Letter 13: “soft power”
ANTE-NARRATIVE: is the process by which retrospective narrative is linked to living story.
PRE-INDIVIDUAL: "The individual ... would then be grasped as a relative reality, a certain phase of being that supposes a pre-individual reality, and that, even after individuation, does not exist on its own, because individuation does not exhaust with one stroke the potentials of pre-individual reality." --- Simondon

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Letter 15: Your assemblages”
"Reassembling the Social" is the title of Bruno Latour’s book (please google) which is an introduction for Actor-Network Theory. Please google--Professor Dugal
Line by Bruno Latour ( a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist) → “ type of connection between things that are not themselves social.” Here this line connected to me. I feel it relates to our social being and social meeting.


Letter 16;Constructing and creating knowledge content from a knowing experience;
“In the 'world of immersion,' authorship is no longer the transmission of experience, but rather the construction of utterly personal experiences.” --Brenda Laurel
“Virtual Reality is everywhere again, and that’s a problem.” --Brenda Laure
This quote struck me because I never thought of virtual reality as a problem. I did not see the world in this way.

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Letter 17: “Sharing the World: Reading your social meeting reflections”
The book “sharing the world” by Luce Irigaray explains ideas involving “Otherness” and “sameness”. These ideas are questioned in his book where, “questions the validity of the "sameness" that sits at the root of Western culture” is explored.
Methodologies:
Self-reflection: Self-examination; introspection; is a means to observe and analyze oneself in order to grow as a person.
Sentence: In order to improve on my next exam , I self- reflect.
Participative observation: a research technique in anthropology and sociology characterized by the effort of an investigator to gain entrance into and social acceptance by a foreign culture or alien group so as better to attain a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure of the society.
Sentence: As I looked at that moment in class, I looked for others perspectives for answers to how they have seen the same moment.
Symbolic interaction; is a micro-level theory that focuses on the relationships among individuals within a society.
Sentence: I went out with my friends, talking with others whom we knew and those we did not.
Auto-ethnography: is a form of qualitative research in which an author uses self-reflection and writing to explore anecdotal and personal experience and connect this autobiographical story to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings.
Sentence: I have used many tools such as research , writing and experiences to understand the meaning of life.
Dichotomous thinking: All or Nothing, thinking refers to the tendency to evaluate one's personal qualities in extreme, black-or-white categories.
Sentence: She was kind but she was also mean.
Structures and structuring: is formed around human knowledge as the product of a social infrastructure.
Sentence: The building was structured in a way that reflected the ideas we placed forwards.
Interpretation: a particular adaptation or version of a work, method, or style
Sentence: My style of how I wrote my paper differed from my classmates.
Sharing thoughts and mental processes: sharing ideas you have cultivated, and absording thoughts
Sentence: I thought through what I wanted to say for my presentation and then I communicated it to my team.

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Letter 20: Society of consumers
The sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman wrote the book "liquid modernity”. Here Bauman states, “We need to pierce the walls of the obvious and self-evident, of the prevailing ideas of the day whose commonality is mistaken for proof that they make sense.” We must question society, but this task is hard.

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Letter 24: Pursuing international conferences
I wanted the INTED 2020 video on the link on the letter to get an idea about the conference. It seemed like a wonderful place to learn, explore and seek knowledge.

Letter 25:Knowledge construction in a knowledge economy
Within the link you shares, I could not believe how many “sub-themes” there were. It is fascinating to me. The topics range and the level of knowling being shares will be wonderful.

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Letter 36:What is your metaphor?
Reader-response theory: That focuses on the reader or audience reaction to a particular text, perhaps more than the text itself

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Letter 39: Self-driven agenda
"learning organization” by Peter Senge: “Peter Senge stated in an interview that a learning organization is a group of people working together collectively to enhance their capacities to create results they really care about. Senge popularized the concept of the learning organization through his book The Fifth Discipline.”
Three Men in a Boat is a famous 1889 poem by Jerome K. Jerome: “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. ... The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff.”
J. M. Coetzee: “J.M. Coetzee, in full John Maxwell Coetzee, (born February 9, 1940, Cape Town, South Africa), South African novelist, critic, and translator noted for his novels about the effects of colonization. In 2003 he won the Nobel Prize for Liter