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373onsiders the human conditionÂ&nbsp; &#8211; in terms of circumstances, world-views, values and aspirations -Â&nbsp; as inherently fragmented without any hope of discursive convergence. This theory contrasts with the factual universality of the aspiration for higher standards of living and individual liberty, evidenced e.g. by global migration pressures into countries where this universal desire is met better than in the migrants’ countries of origin.<br>The historical experience that global modernisation-for-all is non-trivial and a much more fragile, complex and uncertain endeavour than initially expected by mid-20th century modernisation theories (including Marxism) lies at the heart of the post-modernist ‘incredulity towards grand narratives’. Postmodernism injected some necessary loops of reflection into social theory, in particular the reflection on historically and culturally specific discursive formations. Â&nbsp;These reflections were since absorbed into more complex, subtle and circumspect social theories and theories of societal progress, while the trajectory of post-modernism’s own discourse mutated into the defeatist/self-defeating intellectual culture rejected in this book. The postmodernists failed to discriminate and judge the diverse discursive formations and did not recognise the superiority (superior prosperity potential) of the unique lineage of discursive formations postmodernism itself was a part of, namely Modernity, with its unprecedented elaboration of technology and science, including critical social science. They failed to recognize the unique self-transcending thrust of this (lineage of) discursive formation(s) that actively refuses to remain tied to any historical origin, parochial social group, or particular set of societies. While philosophy Â&nbsp;&#8211; Habermas, Luhmann a.o. -Â&nbsp; has moved dialectically from the modernist thesis via the postmodernist antithesis to a new synthesis that recuperates the concept of progress on a new level of complexity, postmodernism &#8211; and under its influence much of mainstream academic culture &#8211; got stuck with the antithesis to modernisation theory.<br>Thus unassailable ‘subjective validity’ has replaced the regulative concept of objective (intersubjective) validity. In architectural debates I therefore often shift to the meta-level of critiquing our discursive culture as a necessary preface to articulating my positions on substantive issues. This is necessary because my very quest Â&nbsp;&#8211; to ascertain the most promising direction architecture can take to contribute to prosperity and social progress -Â&nbsp; appears to be discredited and anachronistic. Here are my meta-theses addressing the discipline’s discourse culture:</p>
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378<li><strong>Imperative of convergence:</strong>&nbsp;the discipline must strive to define a shared paradigm, as&nbsp;<em>the</em>&nbsp;(best) way forward. A shared paradigm is a precondition of cooperative, cumulative progress towards a global best practice. A coherent paradigm/goal is required so that simultaneous or sequential designs do not subvert each other and undermine the functional integrity of the built environment.</li>
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391This systemic institutional failure to promote progress does not only stunt the discipline’s development but applies equally to individual students’ learning curves. Worse, nothing stops the retrogression of students (and of whole academic design studios or whole schools) into ever more indefensible pursuits. Where no pushback is ever expected and no defence is ever required, the indefensible mushrooms. Rigorous critique must be reinstated.<br>Even the most ruthless criticism of a project, proposition, or even cultural tradition/identity, should never be taken as ad hominem attack. No set of ideas (nor any acquired or inherited cultural pattern or identity) represents an immutable characteristic that inherently defines or limits any person. To rigorously criticize inferior ideas means to emancipate and empower rather than to disempower the bearer. To politely “respect” ideas one recognises to be dysfunctional is the very opposite of genuine respect.<br><br></p>
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