Re: going fishing

From: Yrjö Engestrm (yrjo.engestrom@helsinki.fi)
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 23:08:02 PDT


Mike, have a good trip. Sasha has called, but his most recent calls have not
come through for some reason (the line's been mute when I answered the
phone). But we'll sort it out.

Did you receive the copy of Organization?

Yrjo

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>From: Mike Cole <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>
>To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>Subject: going fishing
>Date: Tue, Sep 5, 2000, 3:18 AM
>

>
> I'll be away for the next week where I can pretend that there is no
> internet. I leave in the middle of a really interesting, multisided, effort
> to re-cognize Ilyenkov, the material and the ideal.
>
> It seems like we ought to start to look ahead to the Leontiev reading,
> although I fear we are not prepared. I am hoping that Charles Tolman will
> join the discussion, but he is retired and jealous of his time (a well
> earned proclivity!). I am not at all sure about the Finns. Yrjo has been
> feeling poorly and is suffering from the enormous success of his
> ideas. Whether or not someone from the Developmental Work Group can
> help out I am not sure. It would be really nice if we could get one of
> our German colleagues to help out, but I am not sure who we might ask.
>
> It would be good to have some plan of action. Charles asked me about that
> and I could only guess at how it might work. We clearly need to allow
> people time to ask questions chapter by chapter and to come up with some
> way to summarize the range of interpretations that emerge.
>
> I have not yet downloaded the text and my copy has long since
> migrated to the land of missing socks. How many chapters are there?
> Seems like time to apply all those neat theories about division of
> labor, object of activity, and roles to XMCA's own activity.
> Which makes it a perfect time for me to go fishing!
> mike
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> All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes
> you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something
> that isn't even visible. N. McLean, *A River Runs Through it*
>



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