xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
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>There was quite a lot of discussion about community while you were away,
>Diane.
eep eep, my apologies then. i am forever resurrecting what has aleady
been discussed in my erratic abasences.
no need to pusue this, i'll just scroll thru the archives and see what all
was suggested.
eva asks:
With what would you replace community?
i actually tried to search through my word-tomes for an other word, but of
course as with all
reifications, alternatives emerge as laughable, blasphemous, ridiculous,a
absurd, inappropriate
(and lawz knows i'm recklessly inappropriate) - i thought of aggregate,
cooperative, collective, and so on, but all these words, too, carry
assumptions about inclusivity that are meek forms of normativity -
the one word that appealed to me, heh, is "differential" - a group of
persons engaged in some form of activity referred to as a differential
(oh, ha, to write it is to laugh, i know) but i'll offer a quick
definition anyway, ("Hollywood Squares" is almost on tv and i never miss
it)
Differential (noun)
- an arbitrary increment of an independent variable (the IV here being the
activity);
- the product of the derivative of a function of one variable by the
increment of the independent variable;
- the sum of the products of each partial derivative of several variables
[activity] by the arbitrary incrememnt of the corresponding variable;
and so on. there are infinite ways to characterize the sociality of
activity through these meanings of differential; however, I also
realize there is no way that anyone who uses the word community is going
to
start making reference to this gathering as a differential.
i thought it most effectively accounted for the ideas of difference, more
so than the assumptions of "common" in community.
but as this has already been worded in my absence,
i'll attend to the archives, and my apologies for interrupting.
maybe one day i will set of an arts cafe called The Differential, ha ha,
and we'll see how it goes.
thanks for your patience,
diane
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:point where everything listens.
and i slow down, learning how to
enter - implicate and unspoken (still) heart-of-the-world.
(Daphne Marlatt, "Coming to you")
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
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university of colorado, denver, school of education
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