You have asked an interesting question. I am sure that the
different "feeling" I felt in reading the piece was contructed by
the stancthe stance I took. It is also probably related to what Bartlet
(1932) described as a personal signature when he discussed the
contents stored in and recalled from memory. To me a feeling of
the history of activity theory flowed from your piece. In
looking at the chart, the names I have come to associate with
acitivity theory tivity theory were placed in more than a linear
historical context.
I am also reminded of the first time I met Gordon Wells. I think
I said, "Gordon, you don't look like I thought you would look."
However, the more I interacted with Gordon, the more I began to
feel like he looked like he should look. Now, Arne, I wonder if
I might say, "You don't look like I feelthe way I feel you write,"
when I first meet you.
Perhaps telecommunications and other forms of writing,
become tools some of use at the level of operaions to create
images and feelings of others much like Pirandello's six
characters in search of an author.
I guess this fits back in to an earlier thread discussing how one
reads. I wonder if other MCAites have similar experiences?