Socialized reality insight

Five Insights: Socialized Reality

When we begin to use knowledge to show us what we don't see, so that we may see a theme or an issue as a whole, a vision of a world on the brink of change results; and of a whole new order of things, which is ready to emerge. We call the emerging order of things the holotopia. The five insights are selected as sufficient to see the holotopia.

The Socialized Reality insight, which is introduced here, is one of them.

Ideogram

This ideogram is only a placeholder. The real thing should be a house with failing foundation image – but we can talk about that...

Intuitive idea

The point here is to see the problems we have as cracks in a house with failing foundations. And that the rational next step is rebuilding, not fixing the cracks... The foundations are invisible. Including them is to culture as architecture is to house construction.

Pseudo-epistemology

A key point here. The pair of antonyms – homo ludens and homo sapiens – has at its core another pari of antonyms – socialization and epistemology. The latter relies on knowledge of knowledge. This latter on gestalt acquired through socialization, and its perpetual confirmation as "what works".

We are not rational choice makers

Our legao, democratic institutions... the way we've leg culture be created by advertising or more generally socialization...

"Reality" is a turf!

This is one of the core points that Bourdieu left us. It's coded in the formula he keeps repeating, something like "the habitus is a structured structure and structuring structure ... The point is that once you structure the people's reality to be so and so (king is God's ordained ruler, and he owns it all) – then this structure structures the reality for the next king to come. He doesn't need to do it again.

The Odin the Horse vignette comes in here to point to the (potential or actual) absurdity of the turf strife. There may be NO "real" gains whatsoever in victories... only symbolic ones...

Academic tradition has brought us to the mirror

Socrates started the tradition of epistemology – by instructing people to question the roots of their beliefs. Especially when they are power based. Galilei and others improved the method. The point here is that we need to do this again. Not be busy, but come back to basic questions of meaning and purpose. Stop and self-reflect.</p>

KF is a complete model of an academic reality on the other side – created to help the self-reflection, and the transition to the new paradigm.

Insight

What we thought was the solid foundation for truth and meaning, turned out to be a myth.

Socialization as an alternative to knowledge.

Socialization – a natural element of the traditional culture – no longer serves us. We need to rely on REAL knowledge.

Formulation

From the traditional culture we've adopted a myth incomparably more damaging and subversive than the myth of creation... We've thrown out the baby with the bathwater.

Story

Bourdieu in Algeria. He saw two processes.

The first was the "modernization" of Algeria. As the war ended, and independence resulted – a completely new set of dependencies emerged. The result was the same. But in a much more subtle way!

The second was the destruction of culture. The Kabyle people ...

Dialog, not debate

This of course goes quite deep – into personal foundation of knowing. Instead of holding on to our beliefs, we keep them fluid. We remain creative... We co-create...

Federation, not puzzle solving

Multiple versions are possible, and also necessary. Keeping them relatively – yet not obligatorily – consistent and coherent is what we are calling knowledge federation, isn't it?

Design epistemology

Design epistemology – information as systemic component

Information is not only, or even primarily, the facts about... The lion's share is implicit...

Keywords

design epistemology

Prototypes

Design epistemology?

Key point dialog?

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