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Representations, Institutions, and IS Design: Towards a Meth-Odos

Representations, Institutions, and IS Design: Towards a Meth-Odos

Gianluigi Viscusi
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 11
ISBN13: 9781466603035|ISBN10: 1466603038|EISBN13: 9781466603042
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0303-5.ch008
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Viscusi, Gianluigi. "Representations, Institutions, and IS Design: Towards a Meth-Odos." Phenomenology, Organizational Politics, and IT Design: The Social Study of Information Systems, edited by Gianluigi Viscusi, et al., IGI Global, 2012, pp. 131-141. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0303-5.ch008

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Viscusi, G. (2012). Representations, Institutions, and IS Design: Towards a Meth-Odos. In G. Viscusi, G. Campagnolo, & Y. Curzi (Eds.), Phenomenology, Organizational Politics, and IT Design: The Social Study of Information Systems (pp. 131-141). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0303-5.ch008

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Viscusi, Gianluigi. "Representations, Institutions, and IS Design: Towards a Meth-Odos." In Phenomenology, Organizational Politics, and IT Design: The Social Study of Information Systems, edited by Gianluigi Viscusi, Gian Marco Campagnolo, and Ylenia Curzi, 131-141. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0303-5.ch008

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Abstract

In this chapter, the authors discuss some issues emerging from the phenomenological analyses carried out by Claudio Ciborra, in particular in the Labyrinths of Information. The chapter points out that concepts such as Kairos, Drift, Bricolage, unveil a specific odos for the information systems as a discipline. In their perspective, this odos covers a meth-odos towards new opportunities offered to design by answering the provocation coming from considering information systems as infrastructures (Ge-stell). Furthermore, the authors point out that these opportunities come from a deep understanding of the philosophical background of the work of Claudio Ciborra, namely from the idea of phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, whose position refuses the idea of a subject (no matter how pure or transcendental) as the original foundation of our relationships with reality.

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