[Xmca-l] Re: The House of Government

[mike cole]

Hi  All --

If anyone remains interested in reading "the house of government," let me
know. Maybe a summer
reading project. David could be correct that it is a trivial conceit.

Great to see that Anna and Eugene's work resonates.
Mike
PS- Some may be interested in this interview with Vladimir Lubovsky who was
a key player in the Institute of Defectology that sheltered Luria in the
mid-1950's.  David's note brought it to mind.
 http://luria.ucsd.edu/AudioVideo/index.html



On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 1:12 AM Andy Blunden <andyb@marxists.org> wrote:

> Die = feminine gender, nominative or accusative case
>
> Der = feminine gender, genitive case (or dative)
> ------------------------------
> Andy Blunden
> http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
> On 10/06/2019 5:58 pm, David Kellogg wrote:
>
> (I'm changing the name of this thread, both to reflect the content and
> because I don't think that Wolff-Michael's comment on the gender of "Frage"
> in German is picky at all.)
>
> I think that "The House of Government" is not really an instance of
> ethnography of speech; that is only what in the seventeenth century was
> called a "conceit"--an instance of wit that involves unlikely
> juxtaposition, like fleabites and romantic love.
>
> It's really a sustained argument about two propositions that the author
> finds utterly contradictory: that the future is somehow in some way already
> programmed and that its realization is still somehow in some way contingent
> on your participation. Both propositions seem very poorly framed to me, but
> I do recognize that frame of mind that likes to frame historical problems
> in these inexplicable, inextricable muddles (for example: my sister has
> just sent me an urgent link urging me to give up chocolate in order to
> struggle against child labor in the Ivory Coast--not, mind you, in order to
> lower the price of chocolate!)
>
> Early on, the author points out how some authors tried their best to write
> revolutionary epics but could not resist the lure of irony. This was
> actually two paths, and not one. For the early generation of artists
> (Mayakovsky, Babel), what was involved was adherance to the revolutionary
> camp, a sudden consciousness of the religious element of that zeal, and
> then a very different moment of "campiness", a reflective moment we might
> almost call revolutionary perezhivanie. As if through a looking glass, the
> later generation of artists (Shokolov, Ostrovsky) took the opposite path: a
> certain aloofness from the events of the revolution, a sudden interest in
> intensive realism, in "permeating art with life", and as a result the kind
> of cynicism that became very explicit and very profitable (and which is
> quite typical of Chinese art today).
>
> Something of the sort could also be said about psychology: there was a
> first generation for whom the revolution was the moment when humans could
> exercise rational free will over everything from economics to child
> development, and there was a later generation which proceeded the other way
> around, working on lie detectors and programmed learning that would allow
> us to plan the human. Perhaps the real dividing line in generations is not
> when you are born but rather when and how you died. I think of Vygotsky
> (and Trotsky) as belonging to the first generation, while Luria (and
> Leontiev) belonged to the second.
>
> (Wolff-Michael: I am still wondering about "der Frage", but let me
> guess--In *Endlösung der Judenfrage,*"der" actually doesn't mean the
> masculine article, but a preposition + article combination like "de la" in
> French.)
>
> David Kellogg
> Sangmyung University
>
> New Article:
> Han Hee Jeung & David Kellogg (2019): A story without SELF: Vygotsky’s
> pedology, Bruner’s constructivism and Halliday’s construalism in
> understanding narratives by
> Korean children, Language and Education, DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663
> To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663
>
> Some e-prints available at:
>
> https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KHRxrQ4n45t9N2ZHZhQK/full?target=10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663
>
>

-- 
We become ourselves through others -L.S.Vygotsky
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