Rumbling on performativity_Frits Simon
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less detailed planning or putting fake subjects <strong>on</strong> an agenda to surprise every<strong>on</strong>e with<br />
extra reflecti<strong>on</strong> time. Moreover, from some of the involved I learned that their participati<strong>on</strong><br />
in the project had changed the way they thought about their work and the way<br />
they organized meetings in their department in a different way. And as far as every<strong>on</strong>e<br />
is c<strong>on</strong>cerned discussi<strong>on</strong>s about dissent will be held every half year. Just to explore what<br />
it is to deal with dissent.<br />
There will be no final soluti<strong>on</strong>s of this project. I think the project is its own result as far<br />
as we keep <strong>on</strong> trying to understand what we are doing.<br />
6.7 Reflecti<strong>on</strong>s in hindsight<br />
The narrative is about potential company blindness, about power, about involvement<br />
of members of staff in developing policy, against the background of derailments within<br />
organizati<strong>on</strong>s. It suffers a bit from a discord between dissent as a way of changing<br />
hierarchical relati<strong>on</strong>s, to prevent company blindness and to preserve the organizati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
The narrative, analysis and reflecti<strong>on</strong> in this chapter have developed into a rather<br />
explorative effort with regard to the subject of dissent. With regard to c<strong>on</strong>tent there is<br />
a direct link with the chapter before, coming from the c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong> to introduce a<br />
corporate jester. However, in due course of what happens a discussi<strong>on</strong> about stimulating<br />
dissent leads to some ideas about interrupting to what we are doing. To organize<br />
some sort of reflexivity within the UAS.<br />
From a complex resp<strong>on</strong>sive process-perspective reflecti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>on</strong> uncertainty and time<br />
are introduced, as a way of trying to understand what happens. That there are no<br />
measurable results is not problematic reflecting from this perspective, although<br />
present-day policy requires proporti<strong>on</strong>al measurable results of investments. However,<br />
results are not excluded. One never can know what some small alternati<strong>on</strong>s in local<br />
interacti<strong>on</strong>s may have populati<strong>on</strong> wide.<br />
The explorati<strong>on</strong> of time in emphasizing that human life is living in the present out of<br />
which the past and present are socially c<strong>on</strong>structed, deepens the noti<strong>on</strong> of self-organizati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
The explorati<strong>on</strong> of time related to the discussi<strong>on</strong>s about dissent exemplifies<br />
how whatever we do - including to do something as planning or preparing – is d<strong>on</strong>e in<br />
a c<strong>on</strong>tinuous process in which every<strong>on</strong>e participates but which no <strong>on</strong>e c<strong>on</strong>trols.<br />
However, also without c<strong>on</strong>trolling something comes out of it, maybe something even<br />
better. But who will be the judge of that? Basically for me it strengthens a belief in less<br />
planning from above or from the top, and more being involved in the c<strong>on</strong>versati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
micro-politics of the UAS. If I reflect up<strong>on</strong> my wiki-project, as elaborated up<strong>on</strong> from<br />
the perspective of wisdom of the crowds (chapter 3) I would say that wisdom exists in<br />
what you are doing. Wisdom is not something to organize as if people can be seduced<br />
to give their wisdom away, or as if wisdom can be extracted from people, next be<br />
added and then prescribed as the soluti<strong>on</strong> of some<strong>on</strong>e’s problems. I have learned that<br />
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