State Space
6 posts tagged with “State Space”
Research Updates
Revisiting the State-Space Apparatus
Three years have passed since the concentrated sequence of posts that built this series' formal apparatus - conceptual spaces, state spaces, graphs, promises, statecharts, service grammar - and...
Does Formalisation Resist or Produce Reification?
I have been making two arguments simultaneously, and I am increasingly aware that they pull in different directions. The first argument, developed across the formal apparatus posts and the statechart...
Motivation as Vector
The previous post concluded that the Motivational Design Framework lacked a unifying architecture - that the synthesis of SDT, discrepancy theory, ARCS, flow, and Dreyfus was ad hoc rather than...
State-Space Construction as Design Inquiry
The statechart work on a data access service a few months ago was clarifying in ways I did not expect. Applying Harel's formalism to a real service - mapping its states, transitions, preconditions -...
Four Senses of State Space
Working through the formal apparatus, the institutional critique, and the politics of formalism, it becomes apparent that the concept of "state" in "state space" has been operating across the series...
The Politics of Formalism: Why the Choice of Algorithm Matters
The previous posts in this series built a formal apparatus - conceptual spaces, state spaces, graphs, promises, statecharts, grammars - and then applied it to a critique of public sector...