Re: more everything?

From: Phillip White (Phillip_White@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 29 2001 - 13:32:13 PST


xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
        Bill B. scrobe:
>
>Granted, electricians use concepts of volts, current, and resistance that
>are
>not very useful in carpentry and plumbing. The plumber uses concepts of
>pressure, flow, and control valves. And the carpenter thinks in terms of
>level, building loads, and geometry.
>
>Where is this going? I don't know -- maybe leaving out the drywall gets
>one
>plastered. Perhaps the core idea is the complexity of building a house,
>which
>i think is in relation to the complexity of building a theory of human
>conciousness and action.

one thing, i think, that is going on here is systems theory - which all
of the different practitioners are using - in the sense that they're
looking at the structure as a whole and then looking for how to construct
within it their own system - respiratory, circulatory, nervous,
perceptive, etc. and they are all using concepts of resistance, pressure,
relationships, stress, weights and measurements - all focused on the
goal of a unified complex whole.

        Victor is on this list - perhaps he could add in his observations.

anyway - this is making sense to me - activity theory as a tool -
which i think of as an organizing tool that references one at to the
relationships of multiple tools exercised in an activity/practice.
perhaps activity theory as the architect?

phillip
>

* * * * * * * *
* *

The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
it means.

                          from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
Mendelsohn.

phillip white
doctoral student http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~hacms_lab/index.html
scrambling a dissertation
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu



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