Tim - I was going to refrain from "talking"to the list today - bizzy bizzy
bizzy - but I will say, briefly, that my idea was not to stop the
discussions, but rather to think about
how these discussions can be underlined with a necessary discomfort
concerning our privilege(s) as (institutionalized) academics,
as theorists who might talk over the material brutalities which are,
perhaps, those "fleshy differences" I referred to -
it is, as I said, the "desire to _fix_ (our positions of discomfort) which
start to blur the details of what keeps these structures in place"; the
seduction of resolutions without really probing what might be problematic;
that is, in response to your other que(e)ry about who
benefits from the "push/pull" perspective, an example of an attempt to
advance a languaging practice which might serve as a way "out" or "through"
an issue which
is not actually being complicated - it's not that there are no answers, but
that I'm not convinced we ask the right questions.
ta for now
diane
"Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right"
(Ani Difranco)
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diane celia hodges
faculty of graduate studies
(604) 253-4807 centre for the study of curriculum and instruction
university of british columbia,
vancouver, british columbia, canada V6T 1Z4