Human Activity and Improvisation

Originally posted at Salihabava.com/academic on April 20, 2010 *********** I’m participating in an international learning community on Performance. In response to one of my fellow conversationalists I said “all of lived activity in my view is an improvisation.” To...

Performance Turn in Qualitative Inquiry

Originally posted at Salihabava.com/academic on June 27, 2010 Lincoln & Denzin (2003) identify their vision of the future of Qualitative research  (QR) as the seventh movement of Qualitative Inquiry based on four assumptions (p. 611-613). One of the assumptions...

…there can be neither a first nor a last meaning; [anything that can be understood] always exists among other meanings as a link in the chain of meaning, which in its totality is the only thing that ran be real. In historical life this chain continues infinitely, and therefore each individual link in it is renewed again and again, as though it were being reborn.

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There is no pure spontaneity, for breaking frames depends on the existence of frames.

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A world is deterministic if its current state completely defines its future.

– Smith, Leonard, 2007

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