And for me the answer is something like 'transformative appropriation'.
To take from our interactions with others the current forms of
longer or shorter historical traditions (and so more or less widely
available to others) something that can be _made into_ something
useful for our own emergent purposes -- partly emergent in the very
processes of fashioning the tools for the purposes we had a moment
ago. Not to simply take from others or from tradition (that is
both dangerous and impossible), but to change it (a little bit by
necessity, more for opportunity) and remake it, recontextualize it,
and in the process participate in the making of ourselves, and maybe
also of others.
JAY.
JAY LEMKE.
City University of New York.
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