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| Jan 16, 2010 1:27 am |
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re: re: re: The ART of ARGUMENT, or I love a good fight on networks? |
| abbeboulah
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It seems that the metaphor is stretched to its limits here, even that we are not really dealing with argument here. Both sides are engaged in the application of measures that violate the agreements I talked about -- mainly, the agreement to abstain from coercion. The council tried to squash the dialogue by using its devices of procedure and withholding information (about what was discussed among themselves). The ingenious citizen, haveing recognized that the rules of argument no longer applied, skilfully wielded the (equally coercive, over longer time) weapon of social contempt for their action. I would be curious about the eventual outcome; but to me this is a perfect example of an interaction that violates the needed mutual agreements of cooperative planning and problem-solving. This is, in my view no longer argument but closer to war -- which of course also has its rules and many have described as a kind of art. (Even in book titles) So the criteria you describe can be applied to this incident as well. I am not sure they all have to be present for something to be described as art, and I would probably add several other aspects, from my perspective of the art of architecture. (When it IS art, which also all too often may not be the case...) Private Reply to abbeboulah (new win) |
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