design for a subjective situationism, including conceptual grounds of business information modeling
Also available as a single pdf file (ca. 2.7 Mb). See also Amsterdam University’s Dissertations Online.
prelude 1
1. Introduction
1.1 Answering a vital question
1.2 An outline of
the treatise
1.3 Succinct
guidelines for reading
1.4 The
variety of differences with unity
1.5 Science
as design
1.6 A
paradigmatic design
1.7 The
paradigm case of information modeling
1.8 On
a postmodern introduction
1.9 Reorientation
against extrapolation
1.10 Part i:
deconstruction of shared meaning
1.11 Part ii: compliance
through exchange
1.12 An additional note
on method
prelude 2
2. Developing
the ground of Peirce
2.1 The
perspective of the user
2.2 Dynamics
of triads
2.3 From
start to finish
2.4 Pragmatics’
poor cousin
2.5 The
reappearance of an idea
2.6 From
triads to pentads
2.7 Hexadic
dynamics
prelude 3
3. Subjective
situationism: postmodern ontology
3.1 An
experimental perspective
3.2 An
engineering attitude
3.3 Explicit
axioms
3.4 Questions
and answers
3.5 A
special kind of ontology
3.6 Situations
objectified, too
prelude
4
4. Metapattern:
modeling as enneadic sign engineering
4.1 Model
as sign type
4.2 Traditional
modeling practice
4.3 Modeling
with a difference
4.4 Structuralism
as method
4.5 Sign
in the ennead: context, signature and intext
4.6 Relative
configurations
prelude 5
5. Critical
synopsis of Eco’s semiotics
5.2 Centralized
communication
5.3 Culturalized
reality
5.4 Comparing
interpretations
5.5 Application
of the ennead
5.6 A
theory of repairs
5.7 An
anticipatory critique
5.8 Fear
of idealism
prelude 6
6. Schopenhauer,
and the limits of rational signs
6.1 A
structural theory beyond the mind
6.2 A
semiotic reconstruction
6.3 A
proposal for empathy
6.4 Convergent
schemes
6.5 Toward
a group picture of sign users
prelude 7
7. The
political nature of human exchange
7.1 Thematic
constraints
7.2 Politics
of modeling
7.3 Meaningful
exchanges
7.4 Irreverent
suggestions
7.5 A
natural escalation of the sign
prelude 8
8. Requests
for compliance
8.1 From
prospects to suspects
8.2 In
search of interest compliance
8.3 Meaningful
memory of relationship
8.4 The
group as personalized abstraction
8.5 Power
and trust
8.6 Limits
and opportunities of empathy
8.7 Focal
dynamics and structure types
prelude 9
9. Austin’s unhappy illocution
9.1 In the interests of discussion
9.2 An adolescent’s diary
9.3 The
lure of action
9.4 Mistaken
primacy of the language system
9.5 Formulas
for failure
9.6 Circular
reasoning
9.7 Sign
user-centered analysis
prelude 10
10. Writing
acts on Searle
10.1 Analytical
authority of the speaker
10.2 Rules: description
versus prescription
10.3 The overrated power
of language
10.4 Beyond the speech
actor
10.5 What’s in a game?
10.6 A need for radical
reorganization
10.7 Theoretical
convergence through reduction
10.8 Reason in control
10.9 Intentional
literalism
10.10 Much ado about nothing
prelude 11
11. Mead
in the neighborhood of meaning
11.1 Lost
opportunities for inspiration
11.2 Opposing quadrants
11.3 Empathy, not
absolute solidarity
11.4 Triadic convergence
11.5 Social
instrumentality
11.6 Full spectrum of
behavior
prelude 12
12. Habermas
on reason against reason
12.1 Empathy as a
structural concept
12.2 Two meanings of
reason
12.3 Communicatieve
action as idealized construct
12.4 Three grounds of
agreement
12.5 A psychological
ground, after all
12.6 Strategic action
12.7 Intermediary
exposition
12.8 Integrating speech
act theory
12.9 Life world against system
world
12.10 Against theoretical
fragmentation
prelude 13
13. Suggestions
for theoretical practices
13.1 Arena of
interests
13.2 Essence of
difference
13.3 Enneadic dynamics
13.4 Trusted
representatives, leadership, etcetera
13.5 Respectful application
of power
13.6 Professional
modeler
13.7 Modeling as
scientific discipline
summary (in Dutch): Semiosis & Tekenverkeer
© 2002, web edition 2002.
Also published in: Semiosis & Sign Exchange
(Information Dynamics, 2002).