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ROUGH NOTES
Crit-i-cal
Function: adjective
‘relating to, or being, a state in which a measurement or point at which some quality, property, or phenomenon suffers a definite change’ (Merriam-Webster)
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.(in the sense [relating to the crisis of a disease] ): from late Latin criticus (see critic).
ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin criticus, from Greek kritikos, from kritēs ‘a judge,’ from krinein ‘judge, decide.’
1: Is criticality a quality, an essential characteristic of a person or practice?
2: Is it a property, a trait that can be adopted (or abandoned) at will?
3: Is it a phenomenon, an observable event? (comment D)
4: Is criticality a technology?
5: Is it a line of thought, an investigative mode contingent on circumstance?
Criticality can be maintained. (Or can it? [comment F]) It is reflective, vigilant, persistently aware, (self) conscious, a series of moments repeated over time. (comment B)
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It is the moment of crisis, a disturbance, a feeling of unease articulated through the body, the point of realisation that things will go one way or the other. (comment C)
Synonyms CRITICAL, HYPERCRITICAL, FAULTFINDING, CAPTIOUS, CARPING, CENSORIOUS (comment A)
Criticality as the censoring of oneself and others: how can criticality be generative rather than restrictive, and is this best achieved by using the ‘crisis’ definition of critical or that which emphasises its ongoing, reflective nature? (comment E)
Pre-text/comments (will be formatted as in Words comments)
A. Chains of meaning are braided through time and through overlapping vocabularies – from Greek and Latin etymologies, via medieval renaming, Renaissances (re-births), re-Illuminations, and more recent medleys.
B. We want to undo this braid and reconstitute it in a new configuration, as we perceive the uncertainty of Critical Illness, the urgency of Critical Care, the judgment of Critical Thinking within our embodied Critical Practice.
C. As Practice follows Critical follows Practice in an accumulation of understanding, the slippage of actions that provoke unease with what we thought we knew keeps us moving.
D. In collaboration, like members of a body, we are dislodged out of our certainties, we compromise on (my for yours, your for mine) criticality, to bring about stimuli for further reflection.
E. Not a duality (Critical against Practice), not linear progress (better Critical, better Practice), no certainties (we have been so Critical in our Practice …), but
Experiments, Openness, Reflections, Collaborations, Trust, shared language, shared actions.
F. Is the notion of critical practice a misnomer? Is criticality neutered through practice?
Below please find Marsha's thoughts and reflections from this meeting drawn as mind maps.
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Questions for co-authors
1. What's happened to the "Practice"? We're good to go--excellent to go--on criticality but the notion of practice has slipped, no?
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