aaaah, a question, have i, for youse theoretician-like folks, about
theory -
i have been soooooo intrigued with the positions taken in theoretical
stance,
re Vygotsky, Luria, Freud, Marx,
and how the interpretive insistences embedded in the ways these theories
are
applied, are, like, well, dogma? ...my own take with theory has always
been somewhat
loose, that some have brilliant notions of how to understand
something/someone/some social phenom, but i have never taken the entire
body of the theorist as
utterly complete, and so personally, i can see many complementary
connections with e.g., LSV, Freud, and Marx, Foucault, Butler, because
each is basically a biography
of writing, not a canon of rigid rules, of course,
and theory is theory, after all, not fact, more like fiction, or
literature, really, rather
than Truth-guides,
but perhaps i have missed something about the rules of theory, that if
an idea is useful from Marx, like materialism, one must avoid Freud because
he was dealing with psychic processes, as though the two are absolutely
antipolar and contradictory and too too different -
i'm not a great advocate of Freud, anymore than Marx, or anyone, except,
perhaps,
Gayatri Spivak, but in general, i take these as all useful writings that
work
in connective ways for understanding what is going on in any particular
setting, activity, location, and so on -
but there is, or seems to be, certainty, here, that Freud and Marx are
like oil and water...
what is the benefit of literalizing one theoretician, like LSV, over an
alchemy
approach, or a cubist, or impressionist, or collage of ideas that span and
probe
the complexity of human activity, and in Pedro's case, the complexity of
intervention
and care?
i'm not trying to invite hostilities here, no offence to those who are
committed
to whoever, but what is the strategy, or is there one?
anyone know what i mean here?
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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