David--- It would help Michael and XMCA A LOT, if everyone would take
Michael's model of seeking to stimulate discussion and write
editorials
of their own!! That was the idea, but one hand cannot clap.
There are upcoming editorials by others, but too few others. For a
group
that admires Bakhtin, this one appears oddly shy about giving voice in
printed form of MCA where such practices are SPECIFICALLY urged.
Perhaps Michael will choose to circulate the editorial so folks who
are not
subscribers can judge for themselves. Or they will follow your
good advise and subscribe. That would be a great mode of self
aggrandizement, since the more people subscribe and contribute the
higher ranking in those eggrecious tenure ranking polls they would
climb --
assuming, of course, that they also write regular article!!!!!!
off to the academic zoo.
mike
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:48 AM, David Kellogg <vaughndogblack@yahoo.com
>wrote:
As Mike suggests there is some very good meat in the latest MCA
which will
well repay the price of an on-line, or even a paper, subscription.
The piece
by Richardson Bruna, for example, is an almost perfect case of taking
apparently "incommensurable" approaches and synthesizing them in a
practical
matter of everyday teaching; just the sort of thing that MCA is
justly
famous for.
So, much as I appreciate the editorial genre that Wolff-Michael
Roth has
established (long, many portioned reflections on matters of meta-
science
generously illustrated with real data), I always find
pronouncements like "a
cultural historical analysis begins with ontological
solidarity" (p,. 109)
rather jarring, even intolerant. More than one contributor to this
list and
to this journal begins excellent cultural historical research from
a very
different kind of solidarity.
At the bottom of the same page, I was highly amused to read this:
"The problem with labor solidarity and other solidarity movements for
special purposes comes from the fact that these forms of solidarity
simply
pit the interests of one group (social class) against the interests
of
another and often against the group (labor class) itself--for
example, when
unionized individuals go on strike they may hurt the stock values
of the
companies in which their retirement plans have invested. These
forms of
solidarity serve to bond those within a certain boundary against
those that
are to be on its outside. This solidarity serves strategic
purposes, which
undermines the very notion of solidarity."
I guess our poor editor must have written this before the bankers
staged a
credit lockout, the actual market for live-in housing was
foreclosed upon,
and the 401Ks were bled white as a balance sheet--all without any
apparent
claw marks from the labor movement! Time is unforgiving stuff.
David Kellogg
Seoul National University of Education
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