The main aim of this article is to analyze the applicability resulting from the practice, a new method of designing information systems operationally named confrontational pattern design method. At the beginning of the work the specificity and assumptions a new methodology is presented and its compatibility with modern design methods. This is followed by studies, which verify of the application...

This article argues the virtues of a particular research methodology, the confrontational stance, for making theory count by helping it to formulate approximate truths of some rigor. Argument proceeds by first showing how a particular anthropological tradition, social anthropology, achieved success by haphazardly adopting such a stance; and then by suggesting certain requirements needed to syst...

Hope has long been seen as essential to motivate social movement activism. However, in the transition and collapsology networks, a ‘postapocalyptic’ environmentalism that views catastrophe ongoing or unavoidable is gaining ground, reflecting an increasing awareness environmental catastrophes are already here have become inevitable. If hope can no longer mean averting catastrophe, what role does...