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What are the social effects of processing Grey Literature? How can we address the modification of the social code which may result of this intrusion of the cause?
Neurology and Cybernetics teaches that auto-intervention upon one's own control
or creation system may generate unpredictable results, or un-noticed,
yet dramatic. Being raw material of control and creation, GL and the effects
of its manipulation rank in this category. But being also 'Literature', this
fuzzy object benefits for its management, from a powerful body of knowledge
in the 20th century, that is Linguistics.
Concurrently Sociology contributes to an understanding of GL's effects:
it subsumes that the relationships between professions, roles, functions,
that form a Society, are equivalent to linguistic significations (i.e.
Significands). The distinction between society and textuality - history and
literature - get thus blured; but it also gives a direct link between
GL and social forms, and this give a complete base for understanding the
social effects of processing GL.
I present some graphics which allow to quickly grasp the very deep questions which are therefore under the responsibility of GL managers. All these graphics refer themselves to Cybernetic formulae which has been adjusted by advanced psychoanalysis [LNKlacanismeCollectif] in order to integrate the stream of civilization models [seePLATO]. For instance, one is formulating what happens to a 'cause' when it meets a fast computing interactive system[GLAIpic10] - this is the case of GL (usually at the origin of the ulterior White Literature) which is brought to our awareness by the internet, computing, network etc..(Cybernetics). If our Societies are ordered by their White Literature, the intrusion of the origin (Grey Literature) disrupts, by resonance within, the social order.
The textuality of a community - its productivity, its history - faces two
options when its GL is thus processed. One is the Classical regime. In the
article XXXXXXX (in IJGL) I have described how it develops within the social
institutions - especially under the Cybernetic activity of the Information
Technology. Observation through the Psychoanalytic model suggests that this
modality intensifies a reference to a Super-ego, which preludes to a Death
Drive. Fortunately, a Modern regime can be described in comparison.
A method of reflection and memory can address the irruption of Grey Literature
in a society which was previously well organized by its White textuality.
This ability to keep control upon the unregistered forces of GL is called
Plural Analysis. One of the advantage of this method is that it actualizes
at the same time the code of the institution - and consequently allow
to adjust it to the situation in transformation. Extended from Psychoanalysis,
Plural Analysis thus assists the evolution of the society in consciousness
- as its Grey Literature becomes accessible - instead of leaving its effects
in operation through blindness, random and brutal changes in the organizational
code.
PLAN
--- WE CAN'T KNOW THE EFFECT - BUT ANALYSE/REFLECT and THUS ADAPT AND OVERSEE THEM
One of the most
difficult attainments in Science may be to be aware of the depth of what
we are doing. In addition, the status of consciousness has been most indulged
lately, with the idea that the Unconscious industry 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 just the Environment and/or Collective Psychology awaiting to
being acknowledged for humakind's new mentality. In the two latter cases
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 effects when it
is uncovered? As Grey Literature usualy preceeds its White formal
result, how can we address the modification of the social 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. Neurology teaches that an auto-intervention upon one's
own control or generation system may generate unpredictable or even un-noticed,
yet dramatic results. Understanding that Grey Literature is raw material
of control and creation, the effects of its manipulation rank in this category
- with a particularity in its case:
Being also
'Literature', this causal object benefits for its management, from a powerful
body of knowledge 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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