Reflexivity :: researching :: acting

Drawing connecting Lury on second order knowledge (pp. 65-67, 2021) and
my Argument 1: Decidim forms part of a live ecosystem of interconnected collective intelligences

Lury’s writing on second-order knowledge draws together and frames some qualities which I’ve been working with for some time: reflexivity, situated knowledge, recursion. It also helped something click for me. I’ve been very aware of these qualities in two key areas: my positionality and practice; as well as the agency and practice of people in Decidim (“in the field”). However, I had not put those two dynamics in relation to eachother or underlined their common qualities.

Reflexivity :: researching :: acting

Collective Intelligence Decidim Style #1 :: Start Here

Visual sketch by me of immersive multi-dimensional experience watching/participating in DecidimFest20 (Nov-Dec 2020)

Call and Response1

A long time ago, back in the last millennium, I remember sending out calls on email lists. And while I waited for responses to come back, I could visualise and sense the calls going out into a vast assembled body of communication networks and peoples, all with their own collectives and networks in turn (offline as well as online). And responses would always come back, as reliable as an echo, but not an echo, as each reply would be unique and distinctive, coming live and afresh from the senders.

Collective Intelligence Decidim Style #1 :: Start Here