Abstract
A source that is unused for the essay, but is one of which that contributes to the main argument. The book's introduction is relevant to the professional practice of an artist mainly about the cooperative work and how it can help to resonates the purpose of the work better compared to when they isolate themselves from the society. I do not think the book have substantial information that can be relevant to back the argument in my essay as it got deep into the sociology of creative practice.Therefore, I decided not to use this book as reference.
PREFACE
x.
‘Practical skill is a tool rather than salvation, but lacking it, issues of Meaning and Value remain abstractions.’
xi.
‘… no one could survive as a passive creature without will; we have at least to attempt to make the way we live.’
INTRODUCTION
4.
(on diversity: sexuality, race and religion)
‘To force all this complexity into a single cultural mould would be politically repressive and tell a lie about ourselves. The ‘self’ is a composite of sentiments, affiliations and behaviours which seldom fit neatly together; any call for tribal unity will reduce this personal complexity.’
5.
(Bernard Madeville fable of the bees, Georg Simmel the strangers)
‘… some public good can come from shared vice, but only if people do not ‘suffer’ from religious, political or indeed any convictions.’
6.
‘One result of managing conflict well, as in a war or political struggle, is that such cooperation sustains social groups across the misfortunes and upheavals at times.’
8.
‘Cultural homogenisation is apparent in modern architecture, clothing, fast food, popular music, hotels … an endless, globalisation list. ‘Everybody is basically the same’ expresses a neutrality-seeking view of the world. The desire to neutralise difference, to domesticate it, arises … from an anxiety about difference, which intersects with economics of global consumer culture. One result is to weaken the impulse to cooperate with those who remain intractably Other.’
9.
‘people are losing the skills to deal with intractable differences as material inequality isolates them, short-term labour makes their social contacts more superficial and activates anxiety about the Other. We are losing skills of cooperation needed to make a complex society work.’
13.
(Erik Erikson)
‘self-awareness emerges within the context of experimenting and communicating to others.’
16.
(on collective rehearsals)
‘Musicians with good rehearsal skills work forensically, investigating concrete problems. True, many musicians are highly opinionated …, but these opinions will sway others only if they shape a particular moment of collective sound. This empiricism is perhaps the most resonant point about artistic cooperation in a rehearsal: cooperation is built from the ground up. Performers need to find and work on telling, significant specifics.’
17.
‘Ritual makes expressive cooperation work … As will appear, ritual enables expressive cooperation in religion, in the workplace, in politics and in community life.’
18-19.
dialectical approach aims to reach common understanding
‘Skill in practising dialectic lies in detecting what might establish that common ground.’
‘You pick up on the intention, the context, make it explicit and talk about it.’
20.
Adam Smith on sympathy
‘Imagination can overcome these barriers; it can make a leap from difference to likeness so that strange or foreign experience seems our own. Then we can identify with them and will sympathise with their trials.’
21.
Empathy
‘Curiosity figures more strongly in empathy than in sympathy.’
22.
Sympathy v.s. Empathy
‘As a philosophic matter, sympathy can be understood as one emotional reward for the thesis-antithesis-synthesis play of dialectic; ‘Finally we understand each other,’ and that feels good. Empathy is more linked to dialogic exchange; though curiosity sustains the exchange, we don’t experience the same satisfaction of closure, wrapping things up. But empathy does contain its own emotional reward.’
Indirection gives a leeway for experimentation and improvisation
‘… this subjunctive mood opened up a space for experiment; tentativeness issued an invitation to others to join in.’
23.
‘By practising indirection, speaking to one another in the subjunctive mood, we can experience a certain kind of sociable pleasure: being with other people, focusing on and learning about them, without forcing ourselves into the mould of being like them.’
24.
‘In dialogics, while people do not neatly fir together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, yet they can get both knowledge and pleasure from their exchanges.’
24 – 25.
Cooperation online
‘Their most potent political effect occurs when they stimulate and arouse people to act off-line, rather than containing them to experience on-screen.’
27.
Machine moderates
‘Its (Google Wave’s) dialectical, linear structure failed to account for the complexities which develop through cooperation.’
28.
Problem with machine moderation in online cooperation
‘…meeting face to face to practise more effective lateral thinking, including everyone fully in the conversation.’
‘shedding context often means shedding sense; understanding between people shrinks.’
29.
‘The fault is in the … software written by engineers with an inadequate understanding of social exchange.’
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