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I fear this does not help me a whole lot, Andy.
Sorry I cannot grasp the method of Goethe properly. I guess Luria probably
failed
as well. Or maybe he succeeded and I have misunderstood him? Entirely
possible.

I did not ask what what is  at odds. I asked for what the empirical
consequences of the the distinctions you are making are. I cannot follow
the path to reforming all of the educational system of the USSR or Russia,
which, so far as I know, neither
Vygotsky nor anyone else associated with Activity Theory every
accomplished. Nore have I ever seen claims that they have. (The Finns
appear to have done well recently using an approach, the relationship to
activity theory I have no knowledge of, but perhaps our Finnish colleagues
do).

Here is what would help me, and I suspect others on XMCA. Take an already
published piece of work that uses the expanded triangle Yrjo proposes in
Learning by Expanding. Say, the work on cleaners in the early work. Tell us
about the mistaken conclusions that arise because of misunderstandings that
confusion of the triangle for "activity" (no modifiers) causes. Suggest how
we might improve our
understanding. Or tell us why that example works, but some other example
(teachers in schools, nurses and doctors in a hospital, etc.) does not.

Or suggest an entirely different way of looking at matters so that when we
go into
classrooms, housing projects, work places, we can more effectively
understand what is going on and be of more help to those with whom we work
that publishing another article in MCA.

I guess I am asking that you rise to the concrete here, keeping the object
of analysis constant.

My apologies if this seems unreasonable. Perhaps it is approaching
senility, but
I am failing to track you.

mike


Lost in the words here.
mike

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> Yes, in Yjro's (1986) words, it is a "root model". (The derivation of it
> is a beautiful piece of work, too, close to Hegel's early "System of
> Ethical Life". Deserves to remain in print).
>
> But modelling a complex process is not the same as the method of Goethe,
> Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky. As you know, Mike, in order to understand this
> approach, which Luria called Romantic Science, I had to go back to its
> origins c. 1787 when Goethe was doing his Journey in Italy, studying all
> the plant life, and its variation by altitude, latittude, nearness to the
> sea, etc., and in conversation with J G Herder, arrived a his conception of
> Urphaenomen. The Urphaenomen is not a model.
>
> It is an abstraction, true. And yes, the understanding of a complex
> process by the "romantic" method is indeed, the rising to the concrete, the
> logical-historical reconstruction of the whole process from this abstract
> germ.
>
> As I remarked (somewhere) I find Yrjo's work over the past couple of
> years, which focuses more on the germ cell than the triangle, closer to
> what I am trying to do. The germ cell is not a model either.
>
> What is at odds here is whether a real, complex situation (such as
> reforming the education system in a nation in Africa, rather than in the
> USSR or Finland) can be based on a conception which isolates a "system of
> activity", whilst dozens of different  ethnic groups, NGOs, government(s),
> trade unions and so on, are all contesting the aims and benefits of
> "education." Every person in such a situation is committed to more than one
> project, and deploys concepts (institutionalised projects) frequently at
> odds with one another. What is needed is a process whose basic units are
> (1) units and not systems, and (2) processes of development, processes in
> which people are struggling to realise ideas, processes of formation. And
> we need the algebra through which such units interact with one another,
> rather than declaring any single such interaction to be an entire new
> "unit" - i.e. coupled systems.
>
> Andy
> mike cole wrote:
>
>> Isn't the trangle a "model, " Andy? A model of the root metaphor. Still
>> an abstraction... waiting to see if it can rise to the concrete? Perhaps?
>>
>> Empirically speaking, what is at odds here? For whom?
>>
>> mike
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:
>> ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Antti, I was directing my question to you and your remarks.
>>
>>     In Engestrom's highlky regarded, now out of print, 1987 text
>>     "Learning by Expanding", the famous triangle logo is given as
>>     Figure 2.6, and after a long consideration of "candidates" for
>>     "unit of analysis" he says the following about this triangle: "The
>>     model of Figure 2.6 may now be compared with the four criteria of
>>     a root model of human activity, set forth earlier in this
>>     chapter." and goes on to list and consider the criteria which are
>>     commonly associated in this current with the notion of "unit of
>>     analysis." (numerous citations are not required). But he never
>>     said that the triangle is a unit of analaysis, and it is not, and
>>     cannot be. He said it is a root model and it is. The root model is
>>     a system concept, not a unit of analysis.
>>
>>     Do you think it possible that this has been the source of some
>>     confusion?
>>
>>     Andy
>>
>>     Antti Rajala wrote:
>>
>>
>>         Thanks Andy for sharing the wikipedia text, and your thoughts
>>         about the issue! The thoughts about unit of analysis were my
>>         own interpretation of the study, and I am not sure if the
>>         issue you raised concerns the original study.
>>
>>         Warm wishes, Antti
>>
>>
>>
>>         On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Andy Blunden
>>         <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>
>>         <mailto:ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>>> wrote:
>>
>>             Antti, here is a link to th eWikipedia on "System concept"
>>             http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**System<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System>
>>             Why do Activity Theorists in Engstrom's current of
>>         thinking mix up
>>             the idea of a system concept with a unit of analysis?
>>
>>             Andy
>>
>>
>>             Antti Rajala wrote:
>>
>>                 Greg,
>>
>>                 You asked:
>>                 ”My question is getting at where we locate "agency". In
>>                 individuals alone?
>>                 Or as possibly being distributed among multiple people and
>>                 perhaps in
>>                 amanner that isn't recognizable to the individual. But
>>         maybe
>>                 there is
>>                 aconcept for that that is different from "double
>>         stimulation.”
>>
>>                 I think that double stimulation can be analyzed not
>>         only at
>>                 the individual
>>                 level but at the collective level as well. Actually,
>>         the study
>>                 of Engeström
>>                 and Sannino (2013) that I referred to in my earlier email
>>                 gives a nice
>>                 example. The study also involves in some respects a
>>         similar
>>                 situation as
>>                 the one that you described having taken place with the
>>         workers
>>                 in Malaysia.
>>
>>                 According to my reading, the study describes a change
>>         laboratory
>>                 intervention taking place in a university library. The
>>         library
>>                 as invited
>>                 researchers to help them find new forms of work with
>>         research
>>                 groups. A
>>                 first stimulus emerges in the course of the change
>>         laboratory
>>                 intervention,
>>                 as a member of one of the research groups that the
>>         university
>>                 library is
>>                 delivering services says that they can find these
>>         services in
>>                 the internet
>>                 without the help of the library. Thus a problem
>>         emerges for
>>                 the librarians
>>                 to collectively produce a service that would be genuinely
>>                 helpful for the
>>                 research groups.
>>
>>                 In solving this problem, they organize their
>>         collective action
>>                 with the
>>                 help of a second stimulus, namely the concept of
>>         knotworking
>>                 (Engeström,
>>                 Engeström & Vähäaho, 1999) that the researchers have
>>                 introduced in the
>>                 beginning of the change laboratory. In particular, a new
>>                 working group, a
>>                 knot, is formed that starts to work with the emergent
>>         problem
>>                 of inventing
>>                 a useful service.
>>
>>                 What is in my opinion very innovative, Engeström and
>>         Sannino
>>                 also provide
>>                 an example of this second stimulus, the concept of
>>                 knotworking, becoming an
>>                 initial theoretical generalization that is reworked and
>>                 enriched through a
>>                 process of ascending from abstract to concrete as the
>>                 intervention evolves.
>>                 Specifically, in the end of the intervention, the
>>         concept of
>>                 knotworking
>>                 gives rise to many concrete, practical applications of the
>>                 librarians' work
>>                 at multiple levels of hierarchy.
>>
>>                 As for the unit of analysis, I think that the unit of
>>         analysis
>>                 in the study
>>                 is the intersection of several activity systems, the
>>                 university libarary
>>                 and the research groups, In terms of agency, one can maybe
>>                 talk about
>>                 shared transformative agency in which the subject is
>>         not an
>>                 individual but
>>                 a collective. (More about shared transformative
>>         agency, see
>>                 Virkkunen’s
>>                 paper in
>>         http://www.activites.org/v3n1/**v3n1.book.pdf#page=43<http://www.activites.org/v3n1/v3n1.book.pdf#page=43>
>> )
>>
>>                 Best wishes, Antti
>>
>>
>>                 On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:57 PM, <ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org
>>         <mailto:ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org>
>>                 <mailto:ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org
>>         <mailto:ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org>**>> wrote:
>>
>>                                      forgot to send this to XMCA
>>
>>                     -----Forwarded by ERIC RAMBERG/spps on 06/06/2013
>>         10:56AM
>>                     -----
>>                     To: ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>
>>         <mailto:ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>>
>>                     From: ERIC RAMBERG/spps
>>                     Date: 06/06/2013 09:05AM
>>
>>                     Subject: Re: [xmca] Double Stimulation?
>>
>>                     True true, the history of philosophy does lead
>>         there Andy.
>>                      But that leads
>>                     to my trepidations regarding ideology lacking in
>>         practice.
>>
>>                     What substance within conscious formation is
>>         measurable?
>>
>>                     I believe that answer has yet to be found
>>                     perhaps?
>>
>>                     eric
>>
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>> wrote: -----
>>                      To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity"
>>                     <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>>         <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>>>
>>                     From: Andy Blunden
>>                     Sent by: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu
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>> >
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>>         <mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.**ucsd.edu<xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu>
>> >>
>>                     Date: 06/05/2013 08:42PM
>>                     Subject: Re: [xmca] Double Stimulation?
>>
>>                     Eric,
>>                     By posiing the problem as that of the Kantian
>>         dilemma, of
>>                     unifying two
>>                     disparate abstractions, you determine the answer
>>         as from
>>                     the history of
>>                     philosophy and the answer is Hegel's answer: "a
>>         formation of
>>                     consciousness" or Gestalt des Bewusstsein.
>>
>>                     Andy
>>
>>                     ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org
>>         <mailto:ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org> <mailto:ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org
>>         <mailto:ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org>**> wrote:
>>                                                I believe that this
>> discussion needs to
>>         involve "unit
>>                         of analysis" for
>>                         what it is that provides the mediational method.
>>                         What unit of study can properly encapsulate
>>         that which
>>                         is being observed?
>>                         Activity? Concept? Word? Mirror Neuron?
>>                         Oh my what a great temptest LSV did let out of
>>         the teapot
>>                         eric
>>
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>> wrote: -----
>>                         To: "xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>>         <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>>         <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>>"
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>>         <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>>>
>>                         From: Achilles Delari Junior
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>> >>
>>                         Date: 06/05/2013 07:04AM
>>                         Subject: RE: [xmca] Double Stimulation?
>>
>>                         Sure, Greg,
>>                         Well, seems to me that "draw analogies between
>>                         different domains of
>>                         their worlds" is closer to "meaning
>>         construction" than
>>                         to choice a
>>                         "stimulus medium" to help memory tasks, for
>>         instance.
>>                         The "double
>>                         stimulation" is fine because introduces a kind of
>>                         mediation between a
>>                         stimulus and our response to the stimulus. But,
>>                         following Vygotsky's
>>                         formulations at that time this new series of
>>                         "stimulus" (a nude, a
>>                         word, etc) act also as a stimulus, a
>>         conditioned one.
>>                         If you change
>>                         you paradigm to the proposition that all sign
>>         implies
>>                         any kind of
>>                         "generalization process" (meaning) that differs in
>>                         their structure and
>>                         has a genetic construction (see the studies about
>>                         concepts, for
>>                         instance), a sign could not be only a second
>>         series of
>>                         stimuli ruled
>>                         by the same laws that a conditional reflex...
>>         As in
>>                         "Instrumental
>>                         method": S-------X-------R. Where the relation
>>                         S---------R is a direct
>>                         stimulus response relationship, but when you
>>         introduce
>>                         a second series
>>                         of stimulus "X" (double stimulation) you have an
>>                         indirect stimulus
>>                         response relationship, but the relation
>>         between S and
>>                         X, and X and R
>>                         remain a conditioned reflex relationship... "Draw
>>                         analogies between
>>                         different domains of our worlds" seem to mean
>>         that we
>>                         are in transit
>>                         between different words of signification, and
>>         culture
>>                         is a human
>>                         production that involves the "generalization"
>>         from a
>>                         world to another,
>>                         broader, maybe not exactly more precise, but
>>                         "broader", in my opinion.
>>                         I don't know...
>>
>>
>>                         "In natural memory a direct associative
>>         (conditional
>>                         reflex)
>>                         connection A?B is established between two
>>         stimuli A
>>                         and B. In
>>                         artificial, mnemotechnic memory of the same
>>                         impression, by means of a
>>                         psychological tool X (a knot in a handkerchief, a
>>                         mnemonic scheme)
>>                         instead of the direct connection A?B two new
>>         ones are
>>                         established: A?X
>>                         and X?B Just like the connection A?B each of
>>         them is a
>>                         natural
>>                         conditional reflex process, determined, by the
>>                         properties of the brain
>>                         tissue. What is new, artificial, and
>>         instrumental is
>>                         the fact of the
>>                         replacement of one connection A?B by two
>>         connections:
>>                         A?X and X?B They
>>                         lead to the same result, but by a different
>>         path. What
>>                         is new is the
>>                         artificial direction which the instrument
>>         gives to the
>>                         natural process
>>                         of establishing a conditional connection,
>>         i.e., the
>>                         active utilization
>>                         of the natural properties of brain tissue."
>>         Vygotsky
>>                         "The Instumental
>>                         Method" (this is 1930)
>>                                http://www.marxists.org/**
>> archive/vygotsky/works/1930/**instrumental.htm<http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/1930/instrumental.htm>
>>
>>                         But already in 1928:
>>
>>                         "Let us now compare the natural and cultural
>>         mnemonics
>>                         of a child. The
>>                         relation between the two forms can be graphically
>>                         expressed by means
>>                         of a triangle: in case of natural memorization a
>>                         direct associative or
>>                         conditional reflexive connection is set up
>>         between two
>>                         points, A and
>>                         B. In case of mnemotechnical memorization,
>>         utilizing
>>                         some sign,
>>                         instead of one associative connection AB, the
>>         others
>>                         are set up AX and
>>                         BX, which bring us to the same result, but in a
>>                         roundabout way. Each
>>                         of these connections AX and BX is the same kind of
>>                         conditional-reflexive process of connection as
>>         AB."
>>                         Vygotsky (1928)
>>
>>
>> http://www.marxists.org/**archive/vygotsky/works/1929/**
>> cultural_development.htm<http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/1929/cultural_development.htm>
>>                                                See: "AX and BX is the
>> same kind of
>>                         conditional-reflexive process of
>>                         connection as AB." --> The same kind... This
>>         paradigm
>>                         will not be the
>>                         same in 1933-34...
>>
>>                         "(Introduction: the importance of the sign;
>>         its social
>>                         meaning). In
>>                         older works we ignored that the sign has
>>         meaning. <
>>                         But there is “a
>>                         time to cast away stones, and a time to gather
>>         stones
>>                         together”
>>                         (Ecclesiastes). > We proceeded from the
>>         principle of
>>                         the constancy of
>>                         meaning, we discounted meaning. But the problem of
>>                         meaning was already
>>                         present in the older investigations. Whereas
>>         before
>>                         our task was to
>>                         demonstrate what “the knot” and logical memory
>>         have in
>>                         common, now our
>>                         task is to demonstrate the difference that exists
>>                         between them.From
>>                         our works it follows that the sign changes the
>>                         interfunctional
>>                         relationships." (Vygotsky, 1933-34)
>>
>>
>> http://www.marxists.org/**archive/vygotsky/works/1934/**
>> problem-consciousness.htm<http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/1934/problem-consciousness.htm>
>>                                                And now?
>>
>>
>>                         Thank you.
>>
>>                         Achilles.
>>
>>                                                          Date: Tue, 4 Jun
>> 2013 18:31:23 -0600
>>                             Subject: Re: [xmca] Double Stimulation?
>>                             From: greg.a.thompson@gmail.com
>>         <mailto:greg.a.thompson@gmail.**com <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>>
>>                             <mailto:greg.a.thompson@gmail.**com<greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
>>         <mailto:greg.a.thompson@gmail.**com <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>>>
>>                             To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>>         <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>>         <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>>
>>
>>                             Achilles,
>>
>>                             Sounded interesting, but I'm not sure I
>>         followed
>>                             you completely. You
>>                                                        say
>>                                                    that Strathern's quote
>> seems like it has a
>>         broader
>>                             application that
>>                                                            "double
>>                                                          stimulation",
>> but I could use some help
>>         with the
>>                             rest of your message.
>>
>>                             If you have a few minutes, maybe you could try
>>                             rephrasing?
>>
>>                             -greg
>>
>>
>>                             On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Achilles
>>         Delari
>>                             Junior <
>>                             achilles_delari@hotmail.com
>>         <mailto:achilles_delari@**hotmail.com<achilles_delari@hotmail.com>
>> >
>>                             <mailto:achilles_delari@**hotmail.com<achilles_delari@hotmail.com>
>>         <mailto:achilles_delari@**hotmail.com<achilles_delari@hotmail.com>>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>                                                                    In my
>> undertanding, this is very
>>         broader and
>>                                 more powerful than
>>                                                              double
>>                                                        stimulation...
>> Double stimulation could be
>>                                 overcoming with another
>>                                                                  way for
>>                                                              think signs
>> than "medium stimulus" -
>>         See "The
>>                                 problem of
>>
>>  consciousness"
>>                                                              (1933-34),
>> for instance. The more
>>         important
>>                                 will be not the
>>                                                              similarity
>>                                                        between a nude and
>> a word, but their
>>                                 difference, "before was
>>
>>  forgotten that
>>                                                              sign had a
>> meaning" and "now" the
>>         meaning must
>>                                 be take in account.
>>                                                                  Double
>>                                                              stimulation,
>> in my understanding, do not
>>                                 resists to this new point
>>                                                                  of view.
>>                                                              Achilles.
>>
>>
>>    Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 06:19:04 -0600
>>                                     From: greg.a.thompson@gmail.com
>>         <mailto:greg.a.thompson@gmail.**com <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>>
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>>                                     <mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com
>>         <mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com>>;
>>
>> antti.rajala@helsinki.fi
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>>                                                                  CC:
>>                                     Subject: [xmca] Double Stimulation?
>>
>>                                     I wonder if this quote by Marilyn
>>                                     Strathern can be productively
>>
>>  connected
>>                                                                  (not
>> necessarily geneaologically, but
>>                                     ideologically) to the
>>
>>  notion of
>>                                                                  "double
>> stimulation" (which I am
>>         just now
>>                                     trying to figure out):
>>                                     "Culture consists in the way
>>         people draw
>>                                     analogies between
>>
>>  different
>>                                                            domains of
>> their worlds" (1992: 47).
>>
>>                                     -greg
>>
>>                                     --
>>                                     Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
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>>                                     Department of Anthropology
>>                                     883 Spencer W. Kimball Tower
>>                                     Brigham Young University
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