Hi Dominic!
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ADDRESSING THE EFFECTS OF GREY LITERATURE MANAGEMENT
One of the most
difficult attainments in Science may be to be aware of the depth or effects
of what we are doing. In addition, the status of consciousness has been most
indulged lately, with the idea that an Unconscious part may operate quite
well in blindness. Awareness may not even be necessary for reaching our desired
goals, and we are not incited to address the in-depth effects of our well
developing science.
The question
however lay open whether the Unconscious is an enigmatic metapsychological
dimension or Freud's intuition of the modern Environment including Collective
Psychology - a new mentality still to be fully acknowledged for humankind.
In the latter case we might want this better knowledge, for it is at hand.
What are
we doing in processing Grey Literature? If Grey Literature can be compared
to the pre-conscious or the repressed, what are the social and collective
effects when it is uncovered? As Grey Literature usually precedes its
White formal result, how can we address the modification of the
social, or even environmental, code which may result of this intrusion of
the cause?
These questions
may again be ignored, as science usually do while manipulating empirically
Nature and its codes. Further, Cybernetics (Neurology, Complex-systems etc...)
teaches that an auto-intervention upon one's own control or generation system
may generate unpredictable or even un-noticed, yet dramatic results.
Grey Literature being raw material of control and creation, the effects of
its manipulation rank in this category - yet with a specificity:
Being also
'Literature', this causal object benefits for its management, from a powerful
tool in the 20th century, that is Linguistics.
Linguistics,
as Science of Literature, provides algorithms
and graphics which allow to quickly grasp the very deep questions which
are therefore under the responsibility of Grey Literature managers. They
show two options when Grey Literature is industrially processed. They can
be described (1) as
Death Drive or Progress of the social institutions when either the
classical option of ignorance (idealization) or a modern Ethic of analysis
prevail.
(1) Grey Literature as Unconscious: causal subjectivity of the repressed
in Lacan's theory (International
Journal on Grey Literature Vol. 1 No. 1 2000 pp.28-34)
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NOTE to Dominic - as you see, either the (1) note - in text - or the IJGL
MCB reference - in footnote - give two options for a link; since MCB agreement
allows me to publish my text. Perhaps will you decide for one link better
that the other