This puzzled me and still puzzles me: The notion that we open space. I
always stumble over it when I hear someone saying that. Why is that done?
In my frame, I just call it: I make an introduction.
And sometimes I say: The sponsor opens the space (does a 3-Minute
whatever) and then introduces me to the crowd, best by saying: and here
is Michael.
I did this once when I was sponsor and introduced Harrison as
facilitator by saying "And here is Harrison" and sat down. It dawned on
him in about 3 seconds that he was on.
The role of the facilitator, another grand question for Utrecht.
And all of you who find it too far away: This is actually the reason why
we do the European OSonOS in the years when WOSonOS is simply too far
away for some... and for some years now for me, too.
So next year, when it is in Belgrade, there will be no "European"
OSonOS... hold it, be prepared to be surprised.
Love that invitation that Dan extended... Drummondville seems a real
possibility.
cheers
mmp
On 26.10.2013 20:26, Harrison Owen wrote:
Dan you are totally correct. The sentence structure is a mess. I knew
that when I said it, and said it intentionally... to make a point:
“Opening” an OST is a serious joke. It is serious because useful good
stuff happens, and it is a joke because we don’t really open anything.
It already is (open). What we do do is playfully remind people of what
they already know, but may have forgotten. Emphasis: _play_fully. Law,
Principles, and Final Admonition, all best done with a smile J
ho
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Howdy Harrison,
This background story on the "wonderful internal contradiction" does
explain the curiously dissonant sentence structure of "Be prepared to be
surprised."
"Be prepared to be surprised" is a directive, a structure that is
dissonant and might even be in conflict with the concepts of
self-management, self-governance, self-organization et al.
I have been studying, arranging and facilitating OST meetings for over 5
years, and I just noticed this curious fact for the 1st time.
Probably something to do with the books I'm reading lately.
And this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Austin
Austin pointed out that we use language to /do/ things as well as to
/assert/ things, and that the utterance of a statement like "I promise
to do so-and-so" is best understood as /doing/ something — /making a
promise/ — rather than making an assertion about anything. Hence the
name of one of his best-known works: "How to do Things with Words".
Kind Regards,
Dan
On 10/26/13 11:38 AM, Michael M Pannwitz wrote:
you couldnt, because you are already dead
mmp
On 26.10.2013 17:35, Harrison Owen wrote:
Actually Dan – it is and always has been a serious joke, with (I think)
a wonderful internal contradiction. If you were really prepared to be
surprised, you couldn’t be surprised... or could you J
ho
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When responding to Jenifer's thoughts earlier, I realized:
The slogan "Be Prepared to Be Surprised" is a most interesting one
in OST.
It is actually an illocutionary speech act.... of type "*/Directive/*".
So, located here in OST, baked into it, we have a specific slogan that
is attempting to *cause* the hearer to take a particular action, e.g. a
request, *commands* and advice. A directive!
I wonder if the undeniably directive structure of "Be Prepared to Be
Surprised" really aligned with the intention/spirit/philosophy of OST.
Dan
Background links:
What is a speech act?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_acts
A */speech act/* in linguistics
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics> and the philosophy of
language <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language> is an
utterance that has performative function in language and communication.
What is an illocutionary act?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illocutionary_act
*Illocutionary act* is a term in linguistics
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics> introduced by the
philosopher
John L. Austin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Austin>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Austin> in his
investigation of the various aspects of speech acts
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_acts>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_acts>.
What is a Directive illocutionary act?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illocutionary_act#Classes_of_illocutionary_acts
*directives* = speech acts that are to *cause the hearer to take a
particular action*, e.g. requests, commands and advice
More than you asked for:
What is a Commissive speech act?
*commissives* = speech acts that commit a speaker to some future
action,
e.g. promises and oaths
On 10/24/13 1:29 PM, Jenifer Toksvig wrote:
Dan wrote: >> Consider the man who loves a certain woman, and
waits
for the current trend of her interest in him to change. He is goal
seeking without controlling. Likewise, trend-following market
traders do not attempt to create, control or make trends. They
simply identify & ride them, while seeking wealth. <<
Waiting and seeking are still forms of controlling. Your loving
man
has chosen to wait for his goal rather than (to coin a phrase)
being
prepared to be surprised by another woman. He may not be trying to
control her, but he’s still trying to control the situation in
a way
that he thinks will allow him to achieve his goal.
Those who seek wealth do likewise: they don’t randomly ride the
trends, they identify them and make choices about how to ride
them,
in order to obtain wealth. That is control.
I don’t think it’s possible to be goal-oriented and try to exert
some kind of control over the process, unless your goal is… to
have
no goal. Actually, even being prepared to be surprised is a
goal. A
sort of wonderfully ridiculous one.
Jen x
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