What is the purpose, motivation or bias?
Irrespective of particular opportunities, which may have elicited the articles, a continuing concern has been with approaches to synthesis, transdisciplinarity and transcendence of polarized thinking in responding more strategically to the challenges of the times. This is associated with challenging conventional assumptions and exploring potentials and possible new ways of understanding — or honouring those neglected from other cultures or times. This may simply take the form of formulating interesting questions suggestive of the possibility of new kinds of answer. Whilst many of the articles have a practical focus relating to the use and organization of information, others are more concerned with the challenges of understanding complexity. Of particular interest is how all such explorations constitute a mirror to self-reflexivity and what such mirroring implies. In this sense some of the articles may be understood as exercises in philosophy, possibly only of personal significance. Ma
