Theory

"Notes towards a definition of theory
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1. Theory must operate as a dynamic process. We ought therefore to recognise that theory is more properly a mode of thinking.
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4. Theory must operate as a mode of critical enquiry that seeks to interrogate and challenge the given-ness of the given. It is therefore not a mode of justification, but a mode of problematisation... ."
Neil Leach, “Notes Towards a definition of theory” (Perface), in: Gonçalo Furtado, Behind the Pencil: The construction of the Critical Project, Bogota: PEI, 2005, pp.4-5