writers on the dialectic
so then from Glanville and Law, I have moved on to
Karl Popper
and the way he describes 'conjectures and refutations' as a theory for how scientific knowledge is generated... and I recently read, ummm, Nigel Cross I think it was talking about how C and R could be seen as how design is developed...
now I'm not sure about this but it is worth looking into Popper, his name keeps cropping up, and looking into his theories and how they might apply to design because he did apply them himself far more widely than just into science...
Popper also said 'we must remember to learn from our mistakes' and this strikes home to me... from early experience and from the 'failures' paper I presented at Izmir...
I also need to have another look at
Terry Rosenberg
and his work on knowledge and what it is possible to know or not know....
and
Richard Saul Wurman
and his Information Anxiety book and writings is important too.. in as much to say how much information we have and what we have, and how we access it, and who owns it, is importnat...
and then there's
Jacques Lacan
and his work which built on top of Freuds, and talks about systems to analyses Self and Other etc...