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The Limits of Language in Doing Systems Work
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2000
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Doing systems work brings us to the limits of language as few human activities do. It uniquely joins the empathetic reading of human motivations, desires, and needs with a creative envisioning of new socio-technical arrangements in hopes of transforming the world. It is at once humble and audacious, finely detailed and grandly epic. Fundamental notions of goodness, truth, and beauty are relied upon in ways that forever challenge our ability to justifY. This paper sets five voices in dialogue to
doi:10.1007/978-0-387-35505-4_4
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