Costelloe-KuehnMemo24

For this memo, chart the binaries that structure talk within or about your object of concern. For an example, see the chart of binaries and third terms in chapt 9 of Mike Fortun and Herb Bernstein's Muddling Through: Pursuing Science and Truths in the 21st Century.

"we employ one dualism only to challenge another. We employ a dualism of models only in order to arrive at a process that challenges all models... arrive at the magic formula we all seek - PLURALISM = MONISM - via all the dualisms that are the enemy, an entirely necessary enemy, the furniture we are forever rearranging" (1Gplateaus, 20).

Also see "structure, sign and play" for articulations of the double-binds inhabited by scholars in the human sciences; social science as a pharmakon.

Admittedly, I am not particularly steeped yet in the talk of the particular projects I am planning on doing fieldwork with, but...


 * A || muddled or excluded middle, JD's "undecidables." || not A ||
 * mainstream || uneasy alliances || independent ||
 * "state" ||  || "man" ||
 * science || translation, transactional readings || art ||
 * reactionary || pragmatic? || progressive ||
 * conservative || "radical?" || liberal ||
 * global || glocal... no "global" as such. || local ||
 * reform || affinities? alternatives? || revolution ||
 * structure ||  || agency ||
 * tree || hybrid projects with "strategical" hierarchies? || rhizome ||