novety and accidence

From: Mike Cole (mcole@weber.ucsd.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 16:59:51 PDT


Kevin et al.

I would have to go read Valsinder on novelty, but very important is the
issue of social uptake/interpretation/construction. "New" knowledge is
a subset of "accident" or the constant variation that accompanies all
action. Only a part of this ever becomes lexicalized, remembered, taken
up. Sort of by analogy, in terms of the social subject, of "I forgot the
word I wanted to say, and thought, unembodied, returned to the hall of
shadows" a la LSV. That, at least, is my current understanding.
mike
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