Posted by P. Richard Hansen on July 19, 1999 at 12:14:42:

In Reply to: Re: knowledge - more or less posted by Lauri Grohn on July 19, 1999 at 11:45:07:

Lauri,

I am afraid you have both your perception and your paradigms mixed up.

It is not only postmodernism that describes the social world as chaotic.
This viewpoint has deep roots in the modernist perspective, and is merely adopted by postmodernism and applied to the scientific or physical world as well.
You have to keep in mind that the physical and social world has got nothing in common when it comes to the ways of describing them.

This is where your second mixup occurs.
You call knowledge an artifact. I find that very amusing and also very misplaced.
You say bussiness KM are run by people, and that is true.
Knowedge is produced by these people in a social world and can therfor never be an artifact.
Either that or you and I understand the term artifact very differently.

I am definately not a postmodernist, but I hardly believe that it has fallen into any grave, on the contrary.
That is only wishfull thinking.

Best regards
Richard

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• Re: knowledge - more or less Lauri Gröhn 15:43:34 7/19/99 (3)
  • KM is about artifacts?? John Bardos 16:12:03 7/28/99 (2)
    • Re: KM is about artifacts?? Lauri Grohn 04:17:20 7/29/99 (1)
      • Re: KM is about artifacts?? John Bardos 17:16:16 7/29/99 (0)

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