http://www.spaceandculture.org/2009/03/21/management-and-anticipation-lesson-1-the-virtual/ Welcome to Space and Culture - the international journal and weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds. Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:07:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.spaceandculture.org/2009/03/21/management-and-anticipation-lesson-1-the-virtual/comment-page-1/#comment-1565 Pablo Markin Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:04:31 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/2009/03/21/management-and-anticipation-lesson-1-the-virtual/#comment-1565 The three paragraphs above bring to my mind a by now purely historical book on economic policy and management on a governmental level. The account was produced in the first person. The writing style hardly accessible. The basic ideas well known. However, what did stand out was the overwhelming clarity of the frame of conceptual reference that held the fifty pages of so of the book I have read together. The proposed thesis brought action, data and knowledge together in a form that contrasted very badly with the management periodicals of today. The author is held historically responsible for one of the more spectacular cycles of wealth and welfare creation. The language was German. The author Ludwig Ekhard. The country post-war West Germany going through a literal economic miracle. The three paragraphs above bring to my mind a by now purely historical book on economic policy and management on a governmental level. The account was produced in the first person. The writing style hardly accessible. The basic ideas well known. However, what did stand out was the overwhelming clarity of the frame of conceptual reference that held the fifty pages of so of the book I have read together. The proposed thesis brought action, data and knowledge together in a form that contrasted very badly with the management periodicals of today. The author is held historically responsible for one of the more spectacular cycles of wealth and welfare creation. The language was German. The author Ludwig Ekhard. The country post-war West Germany going through a literal economic miracle.

]]> http://www.spaceandculture.org/2009/03/21/management-and-anticipation-lesson-1-the-virtual/comment-page-1/#comment-1560 Barret Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:59:18 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/2009/03/21/management-and-anticipation-lesson-1-the-virtual/#comment-1560 I was just looking at Deleuze's essay called 'The Virtual' in <i>Difference and Repetition</i>. In there, I noticed once again the distinction between differen<i>t</i>iation and differen<i>c</i>iation. I remember discussing this in your virtual course a couple of years back. Now, is there much to this double sense of differentiation? It seems to enable Deleuze to make a distinction between 'sufficient reason' or 'progressive determination' (differentiation) and the differentiation of singularities (differenciation). The point seems to be that the virtual is split between the 'Idea as a problem' and local actualization, at least if I am reading it correctly. So, I wonder in what sense these management strategies that you speak of are not 'simply modalities' but something more profound, albeit detailed working at the level of differen<i>c</i>ation, the level of the local ('distinct parts actualizing the singular points')? Just a thought... I was just looking at Deleuze’s essay called ‘The Virtual’ in Difference and Repetition. In there, I noticed once again the distinction between differentiation and differenciation. I remember discussing this in your virtual course a couple of years back. Now, is there much to this double sense of differentiation? It seems to enable Deleuze to make a distinction between ’sufficient reason’ or ‘progressive determination’ (differentiation) and the differentiation of singularities (differenciation). The point seems to be that the virtual is split between the ‘Idea as a problem’ and local actualization, at least if I am reading it correctly. So, I wonder in what sense these management strategies that you speak of are not ’simply modalities’ but something more profound, albeit detailed working at the level of differencation, the level of the local (’distinct parts actualizing the singular points’)? Just a thought…

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