This is a paper presented by Samir Dash at Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur, Odisha (http://bbmchandikhole.org/) on 16 July 2018 This UGC seminar session was an attempt to understand, from a non-traditional lens, the relevance of critical theory in context to today’s ever-changing technology space that is moving towards the Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Distributed Computing, become much more important in history than ever, as it deals with softer aspects of human identity and socio-cultural dimension through communication or human expression. This interactive session will have two major focus: 1. A brief overview of the critical theories from a diachronic lens that will be helping the students in grasping the fundamentals in a socio-cultural context. 2. A cross-discipline comparison with the modern design-driven practices in the software industry that would help the students understand the potential and opportunities in the real world scenario where these theories would help. #DesOps #DevOps #design #designthinking #communication #criticaltheory #literature #englishliterature #englishlanguage Title: In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in DesOps world Date: 16 July 2018 Venue: Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur, Odisha More details can be found here: http://desops.io/2018/07/17/download-the-paper-in-search-of-truth-at-the-crossroad-of-critical-theory-and-technology-in-desops-world/

1. SAMIR DASH
Principal Software Engineer (UX), Red Hat
MA(Eng), MBA, AIPMM CPM, CSSBB
In Search of Truth:At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world
16 JULY 2018
For the deliberation at
Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur
(http://bbmchandikhole.org/

2. Goal
The session is an attempt to
understand, in a non-traditional
lens, the relevance of critical theory
in context to today’s ever-changing
world of technology space
impacting business organizations.
A brief overview of the
critical theories from a diachronic
lens that will be helping the students in grasping the
fundamentals in a socio-cultural context.
A cross-discipline
comparison with the
modern design-driven
practices in the
software industry that would
help the students understand the potential and
opportunities in the real world scenario where these
theories would help.
In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

3. Critical Theory DesOps
a philosophical approach to
culture, and especially to
literature, that considers the
social, historical, and ideological
forces and structures which
produce and constrain it.
a mindset and belief system to
empower the enterprise with the
culture, processes and eco-
systems to support design-driven
process and data-driven decision
making with agility and speed to
conceptualize and deliver great
products.
In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

4. Critical Theory
Literary Criticism
Employing a set of
methodology for careful
critique on the subject and
work
Employing a set of
methodology for careful
critique on the approach
or critique itself.
In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

5. Critical Theory
[Literary] Criticism
(Everything including)
Work
Questions
Questions
In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

6. Critical Theory
more like a Service Design
is
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7. Diachronic versus Synchronic
Meaning versus Truth
Self versus Other
3 Lens to Understand the all -isms
Ontology, Semiotics,
Structuralism …
Binary Opposition,
Orientalism, Feminism
…
Aporia & Deconstruction …
In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

8. Diachronic versus Synchronic
In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

9. Diachronic
• Study of State of Linguistic system with reference to origin,
development and time.
• Considers the development and evolution of a language
through history.
Synchronic
• Study of State of Linguistic system without reference to time
• Considers a language at a moment in time without taking
its history into account.
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

10. Plato and Aristotle used
synchronic analysis
Later it was revived in a more formal way
starting from pre-modern era.
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Synchronic SynchronicDiachronic
Romanticicm
Enlightment
Pre-Modern
Modern
Post-Modern
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11. Plato
Truth vs. Imitation
• Ar=st is an imitator of an imita=on which is far
from truth
• Poetry is an offshoot of improper knowledge and
understanding of both how to use and how to
make what it describe.
• Poetry nourishes Passion instead of eradica=ng
them.
• Poets should be banished from society
Republic
380 BC
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12. Aristotle
Solution to Platonic Dilemma
• Out of many forms of literature, tragedy is the best form
• Tragedy causes people to experience tragic pleasure
(pity & fear)
• Tragedy provides outlet i.e. Katharsis
• So it does not nourishes passion
• Poetry presents the world of probability & necessity
Poetics
335 BC
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13. Aristotle’s approach was deductive.
Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)
“
“
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

14. Solution to Plato from Aristotle was
based on forming an Ontology of
literature of that time.
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

15. In computer science Ontology
encompasses a representation,
formal naming, and definition of the
categories, properties, and relations
of the concepts, data, and entities
that substantiate one, many, or all
domains.
In the philosophical Ontology
study of the nature of being,
becoming, existence, or reality, as
well as the basic categories of
being and their relations.
Ontology is about
categorization and relationships in a space
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

16. A subject is what a statement is about.
A predicate is what a statement says about its subject.
Rose
SPACE
is a Flower
is Red
Ontology is foundation to most of the concepts in Critical Theory.
i. Substance
ii. Quality
iii. Quantity
iv. Relation
v. Where
vi. When
vii. Position
viii. Having
ix. Action
x. Passion
10 kinds of things that
may be subject or the
predicate of a
proposition. 4 types of
Ontological
dimensions
Aristotle’s
Organon
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

17. ONTOLOGY
TAXONOMY
CHOREOGRAPHY
Meaning is…
Subjective
Socio Political
Psychographic
Meaning from –
how entities related
Taxonomy –
Classifications and
structure
Choreography – Meaning getting
affected through time and
usagestructure
Ontology is foundation to most of the concepts in Information Architecture.
DiachronicversusSynchronic

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Let’s see a quick chronology of Ontology
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

19. Vedas
Tattva Mimamsa
1000 BC
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Critical investigation
of thatness, reality
and truth
Samkhya school of
philosophy
6 Āstika schools to
sense the reality
Nyāyá, Vaiśeṣika,
Sāṃkhya, Yoga,
Mīmāṃsā, and
Vedānta
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

20. Vedas
Tattva Mimamsa
350-300 BC
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Critical investigation of
thatness, reality and
truth
Samkhya school of
philosophy
6 Āstika schools to
sense the reality Nyāyá,
Vaiśeṣika, Sāṃkhya,
Yoga, Mīmāṃsā, and
Vedānta
Plato’s
Republic
Truth vs. Imitation
nothing comes from
nothing, and therefore
existence is eternal
Eternal and
unchanging Forms or
Ideas of which things
experienced in
sensation are at best
merely copies
Forms must exist not
only of Being, but also of
Negation and of non-
Being
(Binary opposite???)
Parmenides’s
Poem
Plato’s
The Sophist
10 kinds of things that
may be subject or the
predicate of a
proposition. 4 types of
Ontological
dimensions
Aristotle’s
Organon
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

21. Vedas
Tattva Mimamsa
1600 -
GREECE ROME ENGLAND ITALY FRANCE GERMANY GENEVA RUSSIA AMERICA INDIACZECH
1005001000 500100 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 20001950
Critical investigation of
thatness, reality and
truth
Samkhya school of
philosophy
6 Āstika schools to
sense the reality Nyāyá,
Vaiśeṣika, Sāṃkhya,
Yoga, Mīmāṃsā, and
Vedānta
Plato’s
Republic
Truth vs. Imitation
nothing comes from
nothing, and therefore
existence is eternal
Eternal and
unchanging Forms or
Ideas of which things
experienced in
sensation are at best
merely copies
Forms must exist not
only of Being, but also of
Negation and of non-
Being
(Binary opposite???)
Parmenides’s
Poem
Plato’s
The Sophist
10 kinds of things that
may be subject or the
predicate of a
proposition. 4 types of
Ontological
dimensions
Aristotle’s
Organon
Existence : Self
René
Descarte’s’
Meditations
of First
Philosophy
DiachronicversusSynchronic
"I think, therefore I
am” -- "the self" is
something that we
can know exists with
epistemological
certainty
Cartesian coordinate
system
Cartesian Other:
anything(including
body) except mind
Ontological argument
is a philosophical
argument for the
existence of God that
uses ontology
In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

22. Vedas
Tattva Mimamsa
1900 -
GREECE ROME ENGLAND ITALY FRANCE GERMANY GENEVA RUSSIA AMERICA INDIACZECH
1005001000 500100 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 20001950
Critical investigation of
thatness, reality and
truth
Samkhya school of
philosophy
6 Āstika schools to
sense the reality Nyāyá,
Vaiśeṣika, Sāṃkhya,
Yoga, Mīmāṃsā, and
Vedānta
Plato’s
Republic
Truth vs. Imitation
nothing comes from
nothing, and therefore
existence is eternal
Eternal and
unchanging Forms or
Ideas of which things
experienced in
sensation are at best
merely copies
Forms must exist not
only of Being, but also of
Negation and of non-
Being
(Binary opposite???)
Parmenides’s
Poem
Plato’s
The Sophist
10 kinds of things that
may be subject or the
predicate of a
proposition. 4 types of
Ontological
dimensions
Aristotle’s
Organon
Existence : Self
René
Descarte’s’
Meditations
of First
Philosophy
Different Schools
Based on Descartes'
methodic doubt
(Cartesan doubt) -
being skeptical about
(or doubting) the
truth of one's beliefs,
which has become a
characteristic method
in philosophy.
Subjectivism
our own mental
activity is the only
unquestionable fact
of our experience.
There is no external
or objective truth.
Objectivism
object exists in reality
independent of
someone's
conceptual scheme,
perceptions, linguistic
practices, beliefs, etc.
Relativism
views are relative to
differences in
perception and
consideration. There
is no universal,
objective truth.
DiachronicversusSynchronic
"I think, therefore I
am” -- "the self" is
something that we
can know exists with
epistemological
certainty
Cartesian coordinate
system
Cartesian Other:
anything(including
body) except mind
Ontological argument
is a philosophical
argument for the
existence of God that
uses ontology
In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

23. Vedas
Tattva Mimamsa
1890 -
GREECE ROME ENGLAND ITALY FRANCE GERMANY GENEVA RUSSIA AMERICA INDIACZECH
1005001000 500100 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 20001950
Critical investigation of
thatness, reality and
truth
Samkhya school of
philosophy
6 Āstika schools to
sense the reality Nyāyá,
Vaiśeṣika, Sāṃkhya,
Yoga, Mīmāṃsā, and
Vedānta
Plato’s
Republic
Truth vs. Imitation
nothing comes from
nothing, and therefore
existence is eternal
Eternal and
unchanging Forms or
Ideas of which things
experienced in
sensation are at best
merely copies
Forms must exist not
only of Being, but also of
Negation and of non-
Being
(Binary opposite???)
Parmenides’s
Poem
Plato’s
The Sophist
10 kinds of things that
may be subject or the
predicate of a
proposition. 4 types of
Ontological
dimensions
Aristotle’s
Organon
Existence : Self
René
Descarte’s’
Meditations
of First
Philosophy
"I think, therefore I
am” -- "the self" is
something that we
can know exists with
epistemological
certainty
Cartesian coordinate
system
Cartesian Other:
anything(including
body) except mind
Ontological argument
is a philosophical
argument for the
existence of God that
uses ontology
Different Schools Psychoanalysis
Sigmund
Freud
Used Cartesian Other
concept - id, ego, and
super-ego are 3
apparatus in psyche
structural model
ego is a sense organ
for perception of
both external and
internal stimuli.
ego instincts
responded to the
reality principle while
sexual instincts
obeyed the pleasure
principle.
Concious,
Subconcious,
Unconcious
Based on Descartes'
methodic doubt
(Cartesan doubt) -
being skeptical about
(or doubting) the
truth of one's beliefs,
which has become a
characteristic method
in philosophy.
Subjectivism
our own mental
activity is the only
unquestionable fact
of our experience.
There is no external
or objective truth.
Objectivism
object exists in reality
independent of
someone's
conceptual scheme,
perceptions, linguistic
practices, beliefs, etc.
Relativism
views are relative to
differences in
perception and
consideration. There
is no universal,
objective truth.
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

24. Vedas
Tattva Mimamsa
1900 -
GREECE ROME ENGLAND ITALY FRANCE GERMANY GENEVA RUSSIA AMERICA INDIACZECH
1005001000 500100 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 20001950
Critical investigation of
thatness, reality and
truth
Samkhya school of
philosophy
6 Āstika schools to
sense the reality Nyāyá,
Vaiśeṣika, Sāṃkhya,
Yoga, Mīmāṃsā, and
Vedānta
Plato’s
Republic
Truth vs. Imitation
nothing comes from
nothing, and therefore
existence is eternal
Eternal and
unchanging Forms or
Ideas of which things
experienced in
sensation are at best
merely copies
Forms must exist not
only of Being, but also of
Negation and of non-
Being
(Binary opposite???)
Parmenides’s
Poem
Plato’s
The Sophist
10 kinds of things that
may be subject or the
predicate of a
proposition. 4 types of
Ontological
dimensions
Aristotle’s
Organon
Existence : Self
René
Descarte’s’
Meditations
of First
Philosophy
"I think, therefore I
am” -- "the self" is
something that we
can know exists with
epistemological
certainty
Cartesian coordinate
system
Cartesian Other:
anything(including
body) except mind
Ontological argument
is a philosophical
argument for the
existence of God that
uses ontology
Different Schools Psychoanalysis
Sigmund
Freud
Used Cartesian Other
concept - id, ego, and
super-ego are 3
apparatus in psyche
structural model
ego is a sense organ
for perception of
both external and
internal stimuli.
ego instincts
responded to the
reality principle while
sexual instincts
obeyed the pleasure
principle.
Concious,
Subconcious,
Unconcious
Based on Descartes'
methodic doubt
(Cartesan doubt) -
being skeptical about
(or doubting) the
truth of one's beliefs,
which has become a
characteristic method
in philosophy.
Subjectivism
our own mental
activity is the only
unquestionable fact
of our experience.
There is no external
or objective truth.
Objectivism
object exists in reality
independent of
someone's
conceptual scheme,
perceptions, linguistic
practices, beliefs, etc.
Relativism
views are relative to
differences in
perception and
consideration. There
is no universal,
objective truth.
DiachronicversusSynchronic
Semiotics
Structuralism
Formalism
Deconstruction
Orientalism
Subaltern Studies
(+ many more)
In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

25. Vedas
Tattva Mimamsa
1900 -
GREECE ROME ENGLAND ITALY FRANCE GERMANY GENEVA RUSSIA AMERICA INDIACZECH
1005001000 500100 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 20001950
Critical investigation of
thatness, reality and
truth
Samkhya school of
philosophy
6 Āstika schools to
sense the reality Nyāyá,
Vaiśeṣika, Sāṃkhya,
Yoga, Mīmāṃsā, and
Vedānta
Plato’s
Republic
Truth vs. Imitation
nothing comes from
nothing, and therefore
existence is eternal
Eternal and
unchanging Forms or
Ideas of which things
experienced in
sensation are at best
merely copies
Forms must exist not
only of Being, but also of
Negation and of non-
Being
(Binary opposite???)
Parmenides’s
Poem
Plato’s
The Sophist
10 kinds of things that
may be subject or the
predicate of a
proposition. 4 types of
Ontological
dimensions
Aristotle’s
Organon
Existence : Self
René
Descarte’s’
Meditations
of First
Philosophy
"I think, therefore I
am” -- "the self" is
something that we
can know exists with
epistemological
certainty
Cartesian coordinate
system
Cartesian Other:
anything(including
body) except mind
Ontological argument
is a philosophical
argument for the
existence of God that
uses ontology
Different Schools Psychoanalysis
Sigmund
Freud
Used Cartesian Other
concept - id, ego, and
super-ego are 3
apparatus in psyche
structural model
ego is a sense organ
for perception of
both external and
internal stimuli.
ego instincts
responded to the
reality principle while
sexual instincts
obeyed the pleasure
principle.
Concious,
Subconcious,
Unconcious
Based on Descartes'
methodic doubt
(Cartesan doubt) -
being skeptical about
(or doubting) the
truth of one's beliefs,
which has become a
characteristic method
in philosophy.
Subjectivism
our own mental
activity is the only
unquestionable fact
of our experience.
There is no external
or objective truth.
Objectivism
object exists in reality
independent of
someone's
conceptual scheme,
perceptions, linguistic
practices, beliefs, etc.
Relativism
views are relative to
differences in
perception and
consideration. There
is no universal,
objective truth.
Semiotics
Structuralism
Formalism
Deconstruction
Orientalism
Subaltern Studies
(+ many more)
Hypertext
Data
Modelling
Data
Science
Distribution
Computing
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

26. Semiotics
Cultural Phenomon as Signs(Communication)
• Plato & Aristotle explored the rela=onship
between sign and the world -- “observant of
signs” (a sign/ mark)
• John Locke in Semio7ke devides world into 3
types – the 3rd was about
communica=on(Semio7ke)
1900 -
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• Henry Stubbs
• John Lock
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• Ferdinand de Saussure
• Roman Jakobson
• Michael Focault
• Umberto Eco
• Gerard Géne?e
• Ronal Barthes
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

27. Cultural phenomenon is equivalent to
communication.
Communication is a system of signs.
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

28. Sign
Mark
Sign =Signifier + Signified
One Sign Differs from Another
Meaning is by Difference
Signifier is what is the thought when the sign/mark is
made
Symbol
Outside Reference
Words are not Symbols but Signs
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

29. Meaning by Difference
Meaning (Truth) can be only Derived by Difference
Red signified “Stop”
There is no natural bond between Stop and Red
Red's meaning depends on the fact that
it is not Green and not Amber
Selden and Widdowson’s Traffic Light system
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

30. Sign Re-visited
Signified
Signifier
SIGN
Signified 1
Signifier 1
SIGN 1
Happiness Sun
A Happy Person
Signified 2
Signifier 2
SIGN 2
Light
Bright Color
Happiness
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

31. Signified 2
Signifier 2
SIGN 2
Sun
Signified 3
Signifier 3
SIGN 3
A Smiling Person
Sun as a Person
(Personified)
Signified 1
Signifier 1
SIGN 1
Happiness
Smile
Symbol Re-visited
Smile
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

32. Binary Opposition
Pairs of mutually-exclusive signifiers in a paradigm set
representing categories which are logically opposed and
which together define a complete universe of discourse
This is purely Ontological approach (See the connection to
connect to Plato / Aristotle??)
not white not black
black
DiachronicversusSynchronic In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

33. Black
White
STUCTURE
The meaning of an entity is
understood in context with
the binary opposite of it
and that too with in the
universe or structure.
DiachronicversusSynchronic
The synchronic approach leads to the paradigm of self vs. other.
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34. Structuralism
Structure – Langue/Parole – Signifier/Signified
• World which is percepBons and descripBon of
structures.
• Full significance of any en=ty cannot be
perceived unless and un=l it is integrated into
the structure of which it forms a part.
• Started in 1900 from Saussure and later by
Prague School , and Muscow Linguists
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• Jonathan Culler
• Roland Barthes
• Ferdinand de Saussure
• Roman Jakobson
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35. Structuralism
is closely tied with
Semiotics
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36. In contrast with most of his predecessors,
who focused on historical evolution of
languages, Saussure emphasized the
primacy of synchronic analysis to
understand their inner functioning,
though never forgetting the importance
of complementary diachrony.
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37. Language is a Sign System
• Sign System or Structure is a collection of codes of signs
• Cultural Phenomena are product of code(s).
• Individual codes can be understood only relation to each
other and to the system as whole
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38. Signifier
Sound/Image /Equivalent
Reference
Representation
Imitation???(Plato/Aristotle)
Signified
Concept
What is referred
Value
Truth ???(Plato/Aristotle)
Signified
SignifierSignifier
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39. Langue
Abstract
Totality of language.
Shared by Collective Unconsciousness
Includes Rules(Grammar, Syntax)
Parole
Concrete
Subset in Use in writing / Speaking.
Utterances made & Use of Langue
Langue
Parole
Parole
Parole
Parole
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40. Longainus ? Dionysius ?
Sublime as Reader’s State
• Accepted Aristotle’s view – poetry is best form
• Studied effect on reader – first =me reader’s
response into considera=on
• Sublime, elevates reader to higher values.
• Moves reader into higher level.
On the Sublime
1st Century ? 213-273
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41. Solution to Plato’s Dilemma, from
Longinus was based on an User
Experience perspective.
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42. Binary Opposition
Pairs of mutually-exclusive signifiers in a paradigm set
representing categories which are logically opposed and
which together define a complete universe of discourse
This is purely Ontological approach (See the connection to
connect to Plato / Aristotle??)
not white not black
black
SelfversusOther
Semiotics + Structuralism à
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43. SelfversusOther
Black
White
STUCTURE
The meaning of an entity is
understood in context with
the binary opposite of it
and that too with in the
universe or structure.
Re-iterating …
The synchronic approach leads to the paradigm of self vs. other.
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44. The Other
SelfversusOther
Self
Other
UNIVERSE
Binary Opposite gives rise
to the notion of Other
Examples:
Cartesian Other
Freud’s Psyche structural model
Said’s Oriental vs. Occidental
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45. SelfversusOther
Signified 2
Signifier 2
SIGN 2
Sun
Signified 3
Signifier 3
SIGN 3
A Smiling Person
Sun as a Person
(Personified)
Signified 1
Signifier 1
SIGN 1
Happiness
Smile
Symbol Re-visited
Smile
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46. "It is a shift from seeing the poem or novel
as a closed entity, equipped with definite
meanings which it is the
critic's task to decipher, to seeing literature
as irreducibly plural, an endless play of
signifiers which can never be finally nailed
down to a single center, essence, or
meaning"
Post-Structuralism
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47. Meta-language
when a sign of a first system becomes the signified of a
second system.
DiachronicversusSynchronic
Signified 1
Black Dress
???
Signifier 1 = Signified 2
Signifier 2
fashion statement
the "little black dress" is the
level: festive occasion, second
level: signified for a fashion
ideology/statement.
connotation
meta language
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48. Connotation language
when a sign of a first system becomes the signifier of a
second system.
DiachronicversusSynchronic
Signified 1
Black Dress
???
Signifier 1 = Signified 2
Signifier 2
fashion statement
the “fashion ideology/
statement" is connotation for
black dress.
connotation
meta language
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49. Aporia
"aporetic", as "to be at a loss"
the inherent contradictions found in any text
indefinite regression (Barthe’s Definition )
DiachronicversusSynchronic
Aphasia
Loss of words
is an impairment of language
affects the production or comprehension of speech
Aporia
leads to
Aphasia
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50. Rousseau's use of the words culture
and nature by demonstrating that
Rousseau's sense of the self's
innocence (in nature) is already
corrupted by the concept of culture
(and existence) and vice-versa.
culture shaped the meaning of nature
nature shaped culture of which the interlocutor is part of
nature made interlocutor as his being
interlocutor
Culture
Nature
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51. It’s like attempting to lift a bucket while
standing inside of it.
It’s like attempting to lift a bucket while
standing inside of it.
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52. Plato's early dialogues are often called his
'aporetic’ dialogues because they typically
end in aporia
Socrates ques=ons his interlocutor about the nature or defini=on of a concept, for example virtue or courage.
Socrates then, through elenc=c tes=ng, shows his interlocutor that his answer is unsa=sfactory. AUer a number of
such failed aVempts, the interlocutor admits he is in aporia about the examined concept, concluding that he does
not know what it is.
Plato Re-visited (Again!!!)
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53. It’s provided an
important angle, as it
provided a perspective
that there is no way the
truth that can be
articulated in any way by
an entity/author within
any system.
Defining the concept of any structure with a center
of meaning/truth/signified is all falsehood.
Signified
Signifier
STUCTURE
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54. Derrida
Foundation of Post-Structuralism
• Structure, Sign, and Play … (1966) was aVack on
structuralism
• Speech vs. Wri7ng
• différance
• Trace
• Play
• Logo Centrism
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Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse
of the Human Sciences
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55. In the traditional Western understanding (most saliently for
Derrida: Plato, Rousseau, Saussure),
• the meaning of speech is immediate and present, whereas
• the meaning of writing is distant and imperfect.
Derrida merely deny any difference whatsoever between the
two terms, as if “speech” and “writing” could be used
interchangeably
Speech & Writing
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56. Traditional Thought
Signified
Signifier
SIGN
Signified
Signifier
SIGN
Deconstruction
Meaning
différance
DiachronicversusSynchronic
Signs only mean by difference
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57. Différance
différance = différer (to differ) + différance (to delay or postpone/defer)
DiachronicversusSynchronic
Words in both speech and writing
alike and are always at a distance
from what they signify
A word must be described by using
other words.
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59. Play like two mirrors face each other…
DiachronicversusSynchronic
infinite play of traces in each of them…
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60. Post - Modernism
break-away from modernism in the following sense:
Modernism Post-Modernism
Purpose - Play
Design - Chance
Hierarchy - Anarchy
Hypotactic - Paratactic
Totalization - Deconstruction
Presence - Absence
Root/Depth - Rhizome/Surface
Synthesis - Antithesis
Urbanism - Anarchy and fragmentation
Elitism - Anti-authoritarianism
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61. Religious Logical Possibilities
Pre-Modern Modern Post-Modern
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62. New Historicism
Re-reading of History for its Meaning
Deconstrction led to believe history is
just one angle of representation
Focult’s Power of Forms and the Forms
of the Power (1982)
Greenbalt coined “New Historicism”
Old historicism is monlogical with self
at center.
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• Stephene Greenbalt
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DiachronicversusSynchronic

63. New Criticism
Literary Art is Autonomous
A literary movement that started in the late 1920s and 1930s and
originated in reaction to traditional criticism that new critics saw
as largely concerned
with matters extraneous to the text, e.g., with the biography or
psychology of the author or the work's relationship to literary
history.
a work of literary art should be regarded as
autonomous, so should not be judged by reference to
considerations beyond itself
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• I. A. Richards
• T. S. Eliot
• Cleanth Brooks
• David Daiches
• William Empson
• Murray Krieger
• John Crowe Ransom
• Allen Tate
• F. R. Leavis
• Robert Penn Warren
• W. K. Wimsatt
• R. P. Blackmur
• Rene Wellek
• Ausin Warren
• Ivor Winters
DiachronicversusSynchronic

64. Meaning of a poem = Author's intentions
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Meaning of a poem = How reader is feels
Intentional Fallacy Affective Fallacy
Mental Model ???Conceptual Model ???
Fallacies
DiachronicversusSynchronic

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Close Reading
A close and detailed analysis of
the text itself to arrive at an
interpretation without referring
to historical, authorial, or cultural
concerns.
DiachronicversusSynchronic

66. Self versus Other
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67. Kantianism
Cultural Phenomon as Signs (Communication)
• Similar to Descarte’s (1600s) and Hegel (1790’s)
• Started By Emanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
• contemporary positions in philosophy of mind, epistemology,
and ethics
• our experiences are structured by necessary features of our
minds
• mind shapes and structures experience so that, on an abstract
level, all human experience shares certain essential structural
features.
• Our experience of things is always of the phenomenal world as
conveyed by our senses: we do not have direct access to things
in themselves, the so-called noumenal world.
1781 -
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SelfversusOther

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Thesis
Anti-thesis
TRUTH
Hegelian Dialectical Method
SelfversusOther

69. Existentialism
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An existentialist could either be a religious moralist, agnostic relativist, or
an amoral atheist.
Kierkegaard, a religious philosopher,
Nietzsche, an anti-Christian,
Sartre, an atheist, and Camus an atheist,
Sartre is noted for bringing the most international attention to
existentialism in the 20th century.
SelfversusOther

70. Sartre’s Nothingness
Sartre defines two kinds of
"being" (être). One kind is être-en-
soi, the brute existence of things
such as a tree. The other kind is
être-pour-soi (consciousness). Sartre
claims that this second kind of being
is "nothing" since consciousness
cannot be an object of
consciousness and can possess no
essence.
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SelfversusOther
Consciousness
Nothingness
BEING

71. Theatre of Absurd
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SelfversusOther
Waiting for Godot by Sameul Becekket 1953

72. SelfversusOther
New Historicism is the angle
more prominent in Orientalism
and Post-Colonialism /
Subaltern studies.
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73. In critical theory and Post-Colonialism, the
term subaltern designates the populations
which are socially, politically, and
geographically outside of the hegemonic
power structure of the colony and of the
colonial homeland.
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74. Orientalism
SelfversusOther
Ocident
NOT
Orient
AS
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75. Meaning versus Truth
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76. We already covered it…
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Each school of thought was a continous search for
truth and the meaning associated.

77. The User Experience
& Design Operation
angle to the theories
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DesOps

78. Solution to Plato from Longinus was
based on an User Experience
perspective.
Later Structuralism & Post Structuralism
established the importance of writer’s
(producer’s) as well as reader’s
(consumer’s) role in communication
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79. Design involves understanding
complex process of understanding
communication to decipher the
need of the User.
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80. Ontology is foundation to most of the concepts in Critical Theory.
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81. Traditional
Using Ontology in Information Architecture
User Research + Ethnography
Data Modeling (Ontology)
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82. Critical Theory Can Help Shape DesOps
Additional areas where
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83. Modeling for ethical human values (e.g. Trolly Problem)
(Should the driver less car kill the rider to save the pedestrians)
Critical Theory Can Help Shape DesOps
hVps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
The trolley problem: should you pull the lever
to divert the runaway trolley onto the side
track?
hVps://hcai.mit.edu/avt/
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84. Modelling for AI for both auditory, visual and cultural communications
Critical Theory Can Help Shape DesOps
hVp://desops.io/2018/05/07/slidesaccessibility-in-the-world-of-touch-screens-and-other-natural-interfaces2014/
May 14, 2015
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85. Voice based Interfaces - Expression & Meaning is Key for Deep Learning
(Google I/O example)
Critical Theory Can Help Shape DesOps
hVps://www.theverge.com/2018/5/8/17332070/google-assistant-makes-phone-call-demo-duplex-io-2018
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86. Mapping Communication at Conceptualization & Design stages to improve
Process
Critical Theory Can Help Shape DesOps
hVp://desops.io/2018/06/07/paperback-the-desops-enterprise-re-invent-your-organiza=on-volume-1-the-overview-culture/
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87. Mapping Communication at Conceptualization &
Design stages to improve Process
Critical Theory Can Help Shape DesOps
hVp://desops.io/2018/06/07/paperback-the-desops-enterprise-re-invent-your-organiza=on-volume-1-the-overview-culture/
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88. Process improvement in organization to be more open.
hVps://www.redhat.com/en/explore/
the-open-organiza=on-book
Critical Theory Can Help Shape DesOps
hVp://desops.io/2018/06/07/paperback-the-
desops-enterprise-re-invent-your-organiza=on-
volume-1-the-overview-culture/
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89. hVps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/8-principles-socio-cultural-ux-sx-samir-dash/
Designing for the Other
(Example SX and Google-Glass Failure )
hVps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-failure-google-glass-teaches-ux-samir-dash/
Critical Theory Can Help Shape DesOps
Optimizing design tools for
diaspora culture.
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90. hVps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/8-principles-socio-cultural-ux-sx-samir-dash/
hVps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-failure-google-glass-teaches-ux-samir-dash/
Critical Theory Can Help Shape DesOps
User
Other
Traditionally UX focuses on the User in the system
Socio-Cultural UX (SX) focuses on the ‘Other’ in the
system.
SX interprets the ‘Play’ in the system to define the
experience. .
SX interprets the ‘Play’ in the system to define the
experience. . When the user experiences the product, how
the others are impacted and how that can experience can be
improved.
différance
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91. Modeling softer Aspects of Product Life Cycle.
hVps://developers.redhat.com/blog/
2018/06/27/desops-is-devops-2-0/
Critical Theory Can Help Shape DesOps
hVps://
developers.redhat.com/blog/
2018/01/05/beta-tes=ng-
automa=on/
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92. Modeling for Graph DB based Solution
Critical Theory Can Help Shape DesOps
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93. The extra mile…
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The Road to Future!

94. Some Earlier Notes:
Is the Formula of ‘Professor of Terror’, a Hoax? (2007)
hVps://samirshomepage.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/is-the-formula-of-professor-of-terror-a-hoax/
Structuralism, Post Structuralism, Deconstruc=on and Super Structuralism (2005)
hVps://samirshomepage.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/structuralism-post-structuralism-deconstruc=on-and-super-structuralism/
Fallacies for Advanced Readers (2003)
hVps://samirshomepage.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/fallacies-for-advanced-readers/
Formalism, Simplified (2005)
hVps://samirshomepage.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/formalism-simplified/
The Waste Land as a Modern Poem (Seminar Paper at English Department, Ravenshaw, 22nd March 2003)
hVps://samirshomepage.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/the-waste-land-as-a-modern-poem/
Absurdity of Absurd: Samuel BeckeV’s Wai=ng for Godot (2005)
hVps://samirshomepage.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/absurdity-of-absurd-samuel-beckeVs-wai=ng-for-godot/
In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur

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In Search of Truth: At the Crossroad of Critical Theory and Technology in the DesOps world, Samir Dash, 16 July 2018 , Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur
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