Changing a phenomenal change Reassembling the self through a new ethics of negotiation

Abstract

The only change we can be sure of is that over which we do have control, when we change ourselves, and even then this control is mediated by our interactions with others, by a mediating and normative environment that includes the designed objects we let into our lives. That change, seen against a broad canvas of sustainable social structuration, is necessary, is not in doubt. How to go about effecting this change has to be, even if only for the sake of not making the same mistakes as have been made in the past. Change has to be controlled from within, has to be designed into being as a normal part of the individual’s ongoing growth process.