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found in Emergence, V1 #3. Automated Lines and "Modern" Times: a Distal and
Proximal Understanding of Skill/Knowledge David Knights and Darren McCabe
It's a pdf, so I'm just going to grab a few phrases and sentences out of the
abstract.
Who controls what gets defined as skill or knowledge can be an indeterminate
struggle in many organizations. Knights and McCabe ... by making use of the
concepts of distal and proximal organization. Employees and management often
draw on a distal understanding of skill/knowledge, thereby treating it as a
result or an outcome, a finished object, which one either possesses or is
dispossed of. By way of contrast, a proximal understanding would focus on
relations, processes and representations that are continuous, unfinished,
partial and precarious. ... They argue that a proximal understanding is
capable of providing greater insight and of opening up new "patterns of
possibility." The distinction between a fixed (distal) ontology and a fluid
(proximal) one is thus suggested as having meaning for the potential actions
of managers.
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