{"id":74003,"date":"2016-05-23T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=74003"},"modified":"2016-05-21T19:03:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T18:03:34","slug":"unquestioned-bias-in-governance-from-direction-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/05\/unquestioned-bias-in-governance-from-direction-of-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Unquestioned Bias in Governance from Direction of Reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Political Implications of Reading from Left-to-Right, Right-to-Left, or Top-Down <\/em><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

The text on which much global governance is primarily dependent is written from left-to-write (top-down), following the pattern determined in the Greece from which democracy emerged. Text is written otherwise in other cultures, notably in Arabic and Hebrew (right-to-left), or in cultures of the East (vertically, whether left-to-right, or right-to-left).<\/p>\n

Given the implications of “left” and “right” in politics, there is a case for exploring whether the direction of writing locks thinking into a particular mode which is restrictive in a period when there is a need for strategic nimbleness in navigating the adaptive cycle<\/a>. Is governance constrained by negligence of the global scope of what might be implied by the French term grille de lecture<\/em><\/a>?<\/p>\n

This argument is a development of an earlier exploration of directionality in reading musical scores, in the light of the possible significance of musical palindromes and reversing the directions of performance of a composition (Reversing the Anthem of Europe to Signal Distress: transcending crises of governance via reverse music and reverse speech?<\/em><\/a> 2016).<\/p>\n

It is noteworthy that major tensions in global governance are currently evident between those cultures with a preference for reading text differently — namely from left-to-right or from right-to-left, to say nothing of those which have a preference for reading texts vertically (whether top-down, or even bottom-up). The issue is whether these preferences derive from particular cognitive biases as yet to be fruitfully explored, as might be suggested by the much-cited work of George Lakoff<\/a> and Mark Johnson<\/a> (Metaphors We Live By<\/a><\/em>, 1980).<\/p>\n

The question here is whether there is a case for an understanding of “post-chiral governance” within which such preferences could variously manifest as appropriate, if not as constituting requisite variety<\/a> in cybernetic terms. The absence of any language enabling bottom-up reading is noted as being of particular relevance in a period challenged by populist pressures and recognition of its necessity from a management perspective.<\/p>\n

To continue reading the paper Go to Original \u2013 laetusinpraesens.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Political Implications of Reading from Left-to-Right, Right-to-Left, or Top-Down – The text on which much global governance is primarily dependent is written from left-to-write (top-down), following the pattern determined in the Greece from which democracy emerged. Text is written otherwise in other cultures, notably in Arabic and Hebrew (right-to-left), or in cultures of the East (vertically, whether left-to-right, or right-to-left). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}