A mini epiphany strikes a writer interested in enterprise social: Enterprise social networking sucks the social out of ‘social’. On an epiphanic scale, it’s more mega than mini, methinks. Social in the enterprise is nothing
Here’s a great and concise passage from Eric Berne on real social games: “The solitary individual can structure time in two ways: activity and fantasy. When one is a member of a social aggregation of
I dipped back into Eric Berne yesterday for a while. Berne was a Transactional Analyst, and has insights into the structure of human interaction that would seem obvious to us now. That, for example, interactions
“Social systems only exist in and through the continuity of social practices, fading away in time.” Anthony Giddens In matters of designing social media and social tools, I don’t think we can ever fully appreciate
’Action’ is not a combination of ‘acts’: ‘acts’ are constituted only by a discursive moment of attention to the duree of lived-through experience. Nor can ‘action’ be discussed in separation from the body, its mediations
“Language is not content to go from a first party to a second party, from one who has seen to one who has not, but necessarily goes from a second party to a third party,
