robert - many thanks for reading my nightmatish interpretations as
productive. :)
i always wonder how theory and practice were separated,
when in my work i have always found theory to be a practice,
and practice to be an activation of theory = what i have most appreciated
about
vygotskyian traditions is this very practice of theorizing,
and what i am ceaselessly astonished by is the assumption
that ideas/literacy are/is distinct from the ways we "are" always "being"
[verb] in the world - indeed,
bahktin wrote it best in the notions of 'heteroglossia' altho i tend to
prefer
homoglossia, in that like-types are invariably drawn together.
i had read/studied habermas, but i guess i find he lacks any
critical-material
grasp of discourse,
and i confess i still sympathize with the 1930s Horkheimer, founder of the
Frankfurt Institute,
and the one who said we (intellectuals) have a responsibility to make our
work relevant to social
oppressions -
ah.
a hopeless idealist, i are.
many thanks for appreciating my nightmares though.
diane
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' 'We have destroyed something by our presence,' said Bernard, 'a
world perhaps.'
(Virginia Woolf, "The Waves")
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, vancouver / university of colorado, denver
Diane_Hodges who-is-at ceo.cudenver.edu