Thursday, August 30, 2007
Tiplady, R. (2002). Postmission: World Mission by a Postmodern Generation.
REM 'Losing my Religion' xii
Many young workers who do join established organizations find that they just do not fit in, and feet a , constant pressure to conform in a way that creates many internal tensions. Some either can not or will not conform and so leave; others live under the constant strain of pretending to be who they are not in order to 'fit'; whilst others submit to the demands of the agency and become clones of their leaders devoid of freshness and innovative potential. pp14
Foucault's ultimate aim was to articulate and Promote that which is different so as to challenge that which is considered normal. This is ultimately anti-authoritarian, and he sought to encourage the articulation of different discourses so as to reveal the arbitrary nature of every rule and norm. He called this the power/resistance matrix. Thus he encouraged the expression of different opinions, simply as an end in themselves, and not because such airing of different views might some nearer approximation to truth or reality be discovered. One might reasonably ask what the result of such a cacophony of divergent opinions would produce - would it be confusion, chaos or anarchy? On this point Foucault was unconcerned, as he simply wanted to encourage the free expression of discourses so as to highlight the often arbitrary nature of that which rules as ,normal'. pp79
Viv Thomas suggests that chaos must be embraced, not feared. He quotes Mitchell Waldrop, who describes the edge of chaos as the 'one place where a complex system can be spontaneous, adaptive and alive'. Attempts to find a stable equilibrium will fail. (Gleick notes the same with regard to ecology - equilibrium, or a steady state, equals death.)` Great leaders, suggests Thomas, drive away from stability into chaos. Regular innovation comes through instability. Any sense of arrival will be dangerous complacency.`
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Many young workers who do join established organizations find that they just do not fit in, and feet a , constant pressure to conform in a way that creates many internal tensions. Some either can not or will not conform and so leave; others live under the constant strain of pretending to be who they are not in order to 'fit'; whilst others submit to the demands of the agency and become clones of their leaders devoid of freshness and innovative potential. pp14
Foucault's ultimate aim was to articulate and Promote that which is different so as to challenge that which is considered normal. This is ultimately anti-authoritarian, and he sought to encourage the articulation of different discourses so as to reveal the arbitrary nature of every rule and norm. He called this the power/resistance matrix. Thus he encouraged the expression of different opinions, simply as an end in themselves, and not because such airing of different views might some nearer approximation to truth or reality be discovered. One might reasonably ask what the result of such a cacophony of divergent opinions would produce - would it be confusion, chaos or anarchy? On this point Foucault was unconcerned, as he simply wanted to encourage the free expression of discourses so as to highlight the often arbitrary nature of that which rules as ,normal'. pp79
Viv Thomas suggests that chaos must be embraced, not feared. He quotes Mitchell Waldrop, who describes the edge of chaos as the 'one place where a complex system can be spontaneous, adaptive and alive'. Attempts to find a stable equilibrium will fail. (Gleick notes the same with regard to ecology - equilibrium, or a steady state, equals death.)` Great leaders, suggests Thomas, drive away from stability into chaos. Regular innovation comes through instability. Any sense of arrival will be dangerous complacency.`
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