[Xmca-l] Re: [External] Re: General check-in?

Fri Apr 10 17:43:39 PDT 2020

Hi Elizabeth-- I always appreciated news of the qual list.

Might Cultural Praxis be a place to find a way to get qual list and xmca
list people to recognize a certain we-ness and
find ways to support each other's work?

mike

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 1:17 PM Dr. Elizabeth Fein <feine@duq.edu> wrote:

> Hello all -
> Longtime lurker on this list, emerging occasionally to send little
> dispatches from SQIP. But I read much of what comes through. I'm in
> Pittsburgh, in a small neighborhood whose close connections make me feel
> both immense gratitude and wonderment.
>
> Every day as I drink my morning coffee I write a few pages in a notebook,
> and recently those have been taken up with these questions: what do I *do*?
> Or as Mike puts it, what can *we* do, whoever we is, or are? The question
> I keep coming back to, and that I encountered so often in my work with
> people shaded under the umbrella of the "autism spectrum" diagnosis that
> brought me to this list, is how do we relearn the ability to think of
> ourselves in terms of a *we - * one that is neither confined to the
> claustrophobic intimacy of the dyad nor lost in the abstractions of
> national identity or homogenizing social structures, but that occupies some
> space in between. This "larger social unit" that David evoked in that
> earlier email, which - in being neither binary nor undifferentiated (not
> the one or the one-and-the-other or the all, but the *several*) - seems
> like it itself teaches us to think about our place in space and time and
> history in a distinct way. I'm excited, in a way that had been hard for me
> to access in the last few days, about the possibility of engaging the
> wisdom of this list in this and other projects.
> Wishing you well,
> Elizabeth
>
>
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> *From:* xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu>
> on behalf of mike cole <mcole@UCSD.EDU>
> *Sent:* Friday, April 10, 2020 2:22 PM
> *To:* eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
> *Subject:* [External] [Xmca-l] Re: General check-in?
>
> Hi Rein --  Its great to hear from Estonia.  The Tulvistas used to be
> contributors to this conversation, back in the day.  Your
> cultural-historical
> tradition, entwined with your semiotics, educate us all.
>
> How are you and your social circle thinkig about the current historical
> crisis/crises in terms of the future of democracy and debates about what
> follows in terms of possible forms of political economy.? I am "seeing" a
> very strong movement on the part of my government to fulfill our founding
> fathers's single worst nightmare:  That a president would become king, and
> the states his vassals.  This imagining is reinforced almost daily as I scan
> the horizon.  A new form of nationalist authoritarianism. I might even
> live long enough to experience it.
>
> As critical, committed, cultural-historical, social scientists, who teach
> in universities tasked with creating and "transmitting" our knowledge to
> next generations,
> what special skills do we bring to our social roles and its obligations?
> Beth has described going through a qualitative transformation in her social
> role that is tightly
> bound to her obligations to her students and their students. David points
> to a future in which classroom spaces will not be used for their designed
> purposes for
> at least 2-3 years, assuming a globally distributed vaccine, or else it
> will be entirely a form of distance education that the world has never
> before experienced.
> Either way, inequalities will be exacerbated. etc. You all of this.
>
> So what can WE do (whoever we is?).
> Here is what I imagine from the perspective of a vulnerable 82 year old
> and almost four decades of xlchc-->xmca:
>  Many people associated with XMCA, and many more who are associated with a
> variety of allied enterprises, have for decades become
> "experts" in the design of new forms of educational activity  (or medical
> activity, or milk delivery men's mathematical practices, or tailors eeking out
> a
> living in an impoverished country)
>
> If I were a youngster and into branding, I might say that CHAT is expert
> in creating hybrid,multimedia, systems of activity, ones that afford the
> design of
> the kind of "heterogeneous attunement." -- the kind of attunement that
> promotes learning and development  in zones of proxmal development.
> However, I am not a youngster and my plate was pretty full before this
> second shock wave,
>
> I am thinking about this as an "act locally but think globally" way to
> deal with a world where people must band together but can only survive by
> their networked ties to other.
>
> XMCA may not be the best place to discuss such matters. Your note with its
> "two kinds of social distancing" set me off.
> Here the medium seems to promote forms of chaining that leave only buried
> traces of the by-passed links. Then they silence
> those who feel disempowered by the male-domination. whiteness and status
> that have been apparently unstoppable although
> it is not the wish of any of those who participate. This happens not just
> on xmca, but in other fora where everyone does not want it to happen.
>
> My hope is that *Cultural Praxis, *which the MCA editors are
> re-vivifying, will provide more tools to ensure that we retain the
> diversity essential to any sort of cultural-historical theorizing or
> practicing.
>
> My whole ruble
> mike
> PS-   How do we hybridize your two kinds of social distancing to create
> effect environments for education?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 1:30 AM Rein Raud <rein.raud@tlu.ee> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Sorry for not having been very active lately, as I’ve been submerged in
> lots of reading and writing, and the situation with the crisis has created
> an even more conducive atmosphere for that. In Estonia, the situation is
> more or less under control, and social distancing has been in our second
> nature for ages, although now that it is encouraged, it is suddenly no
> longer so natural.
>
> Stay safe and keep up the good work!
>
> With best wishes,
>
> Rein
>
>
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> Uus-Sadama 5, Tallinn 10120 Estonia
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> “Meaning in Action: Outline of an Integral Theory of Culture”(Polity 2016)
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