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Re: AUT: cognitive mapping

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<P>Hey everyone,</P>
<P>I am aware that knowledge is not neutral.&nbsp; I am also aware of the dangers insinuated by the term "cognitive mapping", particularly in reference to psychology which presumes a static and reified foundation for reality.&nbsp; I find this project to be extremely questionable depending on the manner in which it is taken.&nbsp; For instance, in a thousand plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari distinguish between the map and the tracing.&nbsp; The tracing being the static illusion of&nbsp;a structure which can only exist as a repressive apparatus.&nbsp; To me it seems that the tracing is the other side of the coin from the map, which is productive, the map is exploratory rather than reifying insofar as it pushes outward, insofar as it is experimental.&nbsp; This project would not be intended as a pure tracing, a pure representation of what "activists" think, rather, by taking a critical approach towards this, by negating the foundations of the tracing, and by ultimately making the process a critique of the method, I seek to undermine the very foundations of the project I seek to undertake.&nbsp; I don't know if I'm making myself clear.&nbsp; But I've been thinking a lot about how this project might be taken in the wrong direction and I am still not sure about&nbsp;it.&nbsp; However, I continue to feel that if I approach this from a critical persespective, it could be potentially useful.&nbsp; I consider it more a matter of praxis, a mobile apparatus towards transformation, something that is constantly modified in process, rather than a finished project which will hierarchize, categorize, and undermine the projects of working people.&nbsp; It is important for me to mention that I do not identify with the the static structures that have been laid out through the cognitive mapping of Applied Psychology.</P>
<P>chris&nbsp;<BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;From: Ilan Shalif <GSHALIF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;Subject: Re: AUT: cognitive mapping
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 00:55:17 +0300
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;Hi People
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Knowledge is not neutral.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;It can be used many ways.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Studying the activists population like the cognitive mapping project may help
<DIV></DIV>&gt;the enemy more than it can help us.
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;I discovered in the road of research a method to measure what people really
<DIV></DIV>&gt;feel towards various objects, people and ideas... and I never made publicity to that.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;It would have served the the enemy of freedom more than the struggle for
<DIV></DIV>&gt;freedom.
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;The cognitive map is a kind of applied psychology. Usually,
<DIV></DIV>&gt;applied psychology is serving the system more than it serve
<DIV></DIV>&gt;the working people.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Ilan
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