Heresies

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Heresies

• self-other differentiation
• ways of relating

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Heresy

• all orthodoxies need heresies
• no society (organisation) can tolerate much
  heresy
• a traitor or heretic is one who transgresses
  categories
• sharp differentiations transitional spaces
  liminality threatens distinct categories

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Basic categories Self-other

• there is no Self without Other
• construction process
• constructing
• unity
• hard differentiation
• soft differentiation

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Self-other unity

• participating consciousness
• no psychic distance
• no observer-observed gap
• examples
• Great Goddess cultures, mystical experience
• meditative states, romantic love...
• epochal change emergence of Other

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Hard differentiation

• The Italian heresy
• western individualism
• either-or relations
• magical -gtmechanical world view
• mind-body relationship
• visual, knowing from the outside
• subject-object dualism

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Possibilities for heresy

• Binary logic intermediate forms violate category
  system
• ambiguity, anomalies, that which disturbs
• survival of most fitting (orthodox)through
• power over Other
• exit Other, domesticate, level, homogenize,
  control, silence.

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Soft differentiation

• blurry changing boundaries
• multiple local knowledges
• shift from knowledge about to joint action
• both/and
• power to... yes the universe is friendly
• a heresy for post modern times
• transformative possibilities

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organising processes, openness and change

• making space
• muItiple voices
• reflexivity
• holding lightly
• listening
• co-ordination not consensus
• dialogical approaches to development