Re: AUT: cognitive mapping

[Ilan Shalif <gshalif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi People.
I do not care what double-talk intelectuals playing with words say.
As a retired psichologist well versed in cognitive psychology
I know enough to smell danger.

"Exploratory" research into applied psychology serve the most repressive
training of rightist murderers of third world countries by the US.

If the whole project was not potent at all, I would not care to object
the waste of efforts.

Identifying the cognitive processes of the activists will serve the
needs of the class enemy.
Ilan

Chris Hurl wrote:

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> Hey everyone,
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> I am aware that knowledge is not neutral.  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.  I find this project to be extremely questionable depending on the manner in which it is taken.  For instance, in a
> thousand plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari distinguish between the map and the tracing.  The tracing being the static illusion of a structure which can only exist as a
> repressive apparatus.  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.  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......
>
> chris
>  >From: Ilan Shalif
> >Reply-To: aut-op-sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: aut-op-sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: AUT: cognitive mapping
> >Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 00:55:17 +0300
> >
> >Hi People
> >Knowledge is not neutral.
> >It can be used many ways.
> >Studying the activists population like the cognitive mapping project may help
> >the enemy more than it can help us.
> >
> >I discovered in the road of research a method to measure what people really
> >feel towards various objects, people and ideas... and I never made publicity to that.
> >It would have served the the enemy of freedom more than the struggle for
> >freedom.
> >
> >The cognitive map is a kind of applied psychology. Usually,
> >applied psychology is serving the system more than it serve
> >the working people.
> >Ilan
> >
> >
> >
> >
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