[Xmca-l] Re: Emotion as "Sputnik"

[mike cole]

Its a Bakhtinian moment, Peg, when when repressed voices bring back a
national memory
and the consciousness of a nation (consciousness as humans' relationship to
nature and each other) has
undergone a qualitative shift. Will it be papered over by future
forgetting? Too soon to tell.

If Juneteenth becomes a national holiday, it would be a very interesting
shift in national memorializing and perhaps,
even, race relations.

For those like me who have inherited only a foggy notion of  Juneteenth ,
the attached link might be helpful.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/*inbox/WhctKJVrDFZHHxRlWkntMlVkVGGMxhnSmgMtqSjmJRWnZRpQjsxLHhpHTlPVtsZRbGvGkBv__;Iw!!Mih3wA!URjX7UEtEjKC9GjF4K7CtoTq6JHOljqil1jLajq7UdsEwHQHmq3v1ap9-GQC2cDEuPmgLQ$ 


mike


On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 9:07 AM Peg Griffin, Ph.D. <Peg.Griffin@att.net>
wrote:

> Phillip,
>
> Your note on missing voices reminded me of Sandro Duranti once saying that
> he had gained ears.
>
> And it seems a propos of a good Juneteenth Day.  So…
>
>
>
> Long ago and far away (from me right now at least), before xmca,  even
> before xlchc maybe, in two funny temporary buildings in a little grove of a
> few trees with occasional ocean breezes and a picnic table and benches,
> there were a bunch of what some on the staff called “labbies,” with lots of
> differences in academic standing, community culture, family race,
> nationality, and short and long term motives.  We gathered and gave each
> other questions and occasional answers and lots of worrying and enjoying.
>
> Along came Sandro as a post doc.  His family lived in LA and he stayed in
> San Diego for several days a week.  After a month or so, he told us about a
> party he went to over the weekend when he was back in LA.  As usual there
> were lots of local university faculty and students.  He said it felt
> different for him, though.  And he had finally pinned down what it was.
>
> He was listening with extra ears – ears from black and brown people who
> constituted a large portion of the lab, its taken for granted history, its
> day to day goings on.  He heard things that needed to be countered,
> challenged, questioned, discussed – things that might have just passed by
> before but now seemed to be things that wouldn’t be said had he been a
> person of color from the Lab.  His extra ears gave him ideas, feelings,
> words and motives that he hadn’t experienced before.
>
> Sandro is a gifted anthropologist, originally from Italy, with advanced
> degrees from the US.  And a dear sweet man.
>
> Peg
>
>
>
> *From:* xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:
> xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] *On Behalf Of *White, Phillip
> *Sent:* Friday, June 19, 2020 10:18 AM
> *To:* eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
> *Subject:* [Xmca-l] Re: Emotion as "Sputnik"
>
>
>
> David - very contextualising background information - which i appreciate.
>  do you think that there is a thread here in the activity of resolving
> disputes that 'might makes right' -
>
>
>
> reflecting on my initial response to Veresov, could have been an emotional
> sputnik - so much tension in the air these days here in denver - but i
> don't want to make excuses -
>
>
>
> i'm reminded on Nina Simone's song:
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>
>
> Alabama's gotten me so upset
> Tennessee made me lose my rest
> And everybody knows about Mississippi goddam
>
>
>
> not just racism, but all isms have just gotten to me recently -  and i'm
> missing the voices of twenty years ago - to mention just a few: Suzanne
> De Castle - Mary Bryson - Kathryn Alexander - Eva Ekablad, to mention just
> a few - of course, we've still got Peg -
>
>
>
> later -
>
>
>
> phillip
>
>
>


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will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of
rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the
same fruit, according to its kind.  C.Dickens.
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