interdependence philosophy of ubuntu, ‘I am because we are’ - originating from Bantu and Xhosa traditions and later popularised by Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela Mentions “Everyone and everything connects” ➡ “People did not define themselves in terms of their individuality, but in terms of group affiliation. Basic to their thinking and knowing was mutuality, not separateness.” (Mel, 2002, p. 3, as cited in Eggins and Papoutsaki, 2016) References Thomas, V., Eggins, J., & Papoutsaki, E. (2016). Relational Accountability in Indigenizing Visual Research for Participatory Communication. Sage Open, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244015626493 ...
intersubjectivity we all are ultimately one subject, have one perspective the only reliable measures are intersubjective, combinatory of our fragments peer review is most reliable form of data as it produces emergent, convergent knowledge 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.” ⤴️ ...
interdisciplinarity multiple disciplines inform the process important to not get context-stuck in one area or one framework, insights come from anywhere different disciplines ask different questions and collect different kinds of data disciplines are for structuring and relating to others processes - descriptive not prescriptive disciplines explain and justify the complexities of what you’re actually doing expanding the qualitative box, the boundaries of knowing to create literacies to show how eg tech / science / whatever framework can function to create inequalities understanding disciplines and bring them into conversation, interface and entangle them, pluriversality humanities - sources/collections, social sciences data/datasets transdisciplinary, slightly alternatively ‘inter-/anti-disciplinarian’ - Vanessa Thomas’ LinkedIn Mentions ”[…] disciplinary boundaries that usually chop up the world of thought,“➡️ ...