Mentions

“When we are with others, we are always something other than what we are when we are alone.” ⤴️ All Together Now Collective Knowledge, Collective Narratives, and Architectures of Participation

“In the phenomenological approach he describes in Being and Time, Heidegger distinguishes between Da-sein, being in the world, and Mitda-sein, the state of being-together-in-the-world” ⤴️

“In discussing how we arrive at consensus, Habermas writes of “linguistically generated intersubjectivity,” the use of language to create a subject that is not the self, but subjectivity shared with others” ⤴️ ^d8a97a

“Luhmann, in Social Systems, argues that people are not society, but parts of its environment” ⤴️

“whenever people are collaborating on a project of knowledge sharing or creative production, they are collaborating not only with other people, but with a system which they, the other participants, and the communicative environment help to create.” ⤴️

“In networked computer environments in particular, collaboration is always both collaboration with other people and with systems.” ⤴️

pluriversality

bell hooks on plurality. (2000) ‘beyond specific historical contexts or shifting relations of power and inequalities’

you can’t distill all human experience into one data point
general purpose models are useless

Mentions

“the vision of a world where myriad and diverse cosmologies, epistemologies, and ontologies overlap, intersect, interweave, and entwine to form a glorious tapestry of entanglement — a reflection of our indelible interconnectedness and inter-relatedness”->
“official archival institutions can be seen as preoccupied with assimilating individual voices into unified, formalized, coherent, logical collective narratives, para-archives might be seen as concerned with acknowledging the heterogeneity and plurality of micro-perspectives, forms of alterity that might be incompatible with the mainstream, strategic, and regulatory.” ⤴️

Resources

Demystifying the ‘Pluriverse’ as the Hegemony Unravels
Constructing the Pluriverse: The Geopolitics of Knowledge edited by Bernd Reiter