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Hypothesis of the book: The links between values and measures are changing (This is very ambigous, value as number or moral; measure as the outcome of mechanically measuring and as "what should be done about a problem")

Statistics can both be used to fight against inequalities or for creating and maintaining them.

Geopolitics of knowledge; Pedagogy of… answers vs. questions (Freire)

Boellstorff: Meta can be a be "above" [meta-design designs design= power] but also be lateral [circular?] like in metalanguage.

Paradata as not being about the world or above other data, but as "alongside the world"

Clough says that in social research people both acknowledge the effect of their presence (the do reflexivity) but also continue as if they do not have any effect.
I guess I am guilty?

Hayles (→"How we became postmodern") suggests that cognition is not concious thought, thus people, animals, machines, groups can cognize. (Hayles seems to like computers, that is rare.)

Explication and literalization (spelling it out) in modernity.

Forms of Circulation and Circulation of forms. That sounds a bit STSy? SL Star?

More hard-to-understand terms! But at least I recognize some again from the previous pages. Also, the famous “Western Philosophy is Footnotes to Plato”-Quote. I read it in this actual book, now I can officially use it.

Expressing political opinion as member of disenfranchised groups of society is hard as expressing political opinion so that it is seen as such requires a certain habitus.

The Haraway chapter is surprisingly short, and it probably is really hard to understand whithout having read Haraway’s situated knowledges paper?
It also mentioned the concept of cutting by Strathern – which I could not make sense of in such a brief section. Let's google da thing.

btw. it is interesting but still, I hope to get this finished, soon.

Dewey and Simon were compared. Simons view on problem setting is more fluid than I though; the role of abstractions for both Simon and Dewey were explored – but only a bit and I would like to know more. Next up: Haraway.
Well readable, although slowly. However, it is one of my favorite topics, so I might have it easier here.

Medien- und Zeitrungskritik; wie sich "gute" und "Schlechte" Zeitungen unterscheiden und wer direkt reden darf und wer nur indirekt, schließlich sind "gute" Meinungen distanziert.

Starts promising, although a bit too abstract for my taste. Next up: Dewey and Simon. The latter being often seen as the one who made us all believe in rational methods. Let's see what Lury writes about his thinking…

Nun politische Meinungsbildung und Enthaltungen: Wer hat etwas/nichts zu sagen? Wer hat den Eindruck das die eigene Meinung wichtig ist und gesagt werden soll?

Menschen und was sie nicht bei Umfragen sagen. Etwas meta, aber nicht viel. Lange Sätze immernoch größeres Verständnishinderniss.

Still going strong. Makes me sad that corona ethnography can't capture the details that Ghodsee considers so important for writing.

Do something that you like to do. You can go abroad or not, it has advantages and disadvantages which are…

Not super surprising insights BUT with the detail and perspectives needed to make an assessment of what to do. Nice.

Nach vielen Details nun ein Überblick über Versuch der Mittelklasse mit Esoterik, Yoga, Klamotten und Selbstfindung aus der Gesellschaft auszubrechen.

Nun die divergierenden Vorstellungen der gesellschaftlich Aufsteigenden.

Two pages more. Did the reading of "Metaphysics of Experience" help? Meh, dunno. At least I can jump between the two and see if I can make sense this way.

OK, this is very helpful and encouraging.

It argues for a readable style. The advice seems not to be very popular.

In Mexico now. Style is nice again.

It is admireable that everything is listed so tidily but also… A list of 27 explanatory concepts, all described in very abstract language?

OK, so it seems I can read about 4 pages here, which try to explain 10 pages in process and reality. So first this, then PR.