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Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
Our self or identity
By emphasising the interweaving of languaging and emotioning, Maturana unpacks further his notion that conversations are structural perturbations which have far- reaching effects on our bodyhoods. Our 'self' or 'identity' is defined by the totality of all the systems of social…
Six classes of conversations which we can distinguish among human interactions
Not all conversations elicit emotions, as we know . Maturana outlines a (non- exhaustive) list of six classes of conversations which we can distinguish among human interactions. These are defined in terms of differences in the pattern of coordinations of actions and emotions…
Prism | About Prism
Prism: crowdsourcing interpretation
Prism is a tool for "crowdsourcing interpretation." The concept emerged from a decade-long conversation on categories of textual interpretation which took place at the University of Virginia, and specifically from transparency mark-up games designed by Bethany Nowviskie for her…
Two Decades Of The Language-action Perspective
The conversation for action loop
Winograd and Flores illustrated how a language-action perspective can guide design with a model they called the "Conversation for Action." This is a loop in which one person makes a request that is agreed to and fulfilled by another person. This universal pattern of human…