romantic....
STILL it is only in the sense of a collective imagining
"from some space of possibles" that no single one of us can
see that we can move proleptically toward a future.
Paraphrasing, we 'progress' along the proleptic social
adventure that is us.
Judy
At 12:04 AM 1/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
>At 9:03 PM -0500 1/5/99, Jay Lemke wrote:
>>We can even project elements for the future that are like no one's
>>memories, in part by interpolating and extrapolating from comparisons
>>within the collective memory. If we do not imagine for ourselves what has
>>already been real for another, we imagine from some space of possibles that
>>we create over such "reals".
>
>And through diversity we are offered greater possibilities, through a
>greater collective of alternative memories. New and different pasts offer
>new and different futures. Diversity, providing ensembles of experiences
>with others and their pasts, becomes a process of proleptic admixture, the
>vicarious and personal.
>
>
>Bill Barowy, Associate Professor
>Technology in Education
>Lesley College, 31 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2790
>Phone: 617-349-8168 / Fax: 617-349-8169
>http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/wbarowy/Barowy.html
>_______________________
>"One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself
> and watch yourself softly become the author of something beautiful."
>[Norman Maclean in "A river runs through it."]
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Judith Diamondstone (732) 932-7496 Ext. 352
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1183
Eternity is in love with the productions of time - Wm Blake