mike asks
Please, lets go very slow and circumstpectly with personal impressions.
They
are SO open to misinterpretation. For example, Carl wrote:
And I understood that Luria was
bitter about the CP and felt so politically threatened that he turned from
sociohistorical studies to medical studies to avoid any political
persecution. Is all that wrong?
It would take the better part of a book to answer your question Carl. And
it would take ditto to clear up/confront/contest other stories about what
who felt when under what circumstances.
actually, i've been discussing, elsewhere, Frederic Jameson's (1981) _The
political unconscious: Narrative as a socially symbolic act_ ,
which asserts that when are reading texts,
we must account for historical frames that are part of the writing,
and that these histories are what produce the text, as an effect of its
history -
i think Anna and Carl's thoughts on these histories as limitations are
essential for placing
historical writing in a context of political relations -
that there are _always_ systems of oppressions and dominance at work in
writing, what does not get written, what is assumed, displaced, denied,
or accepted, - these can't be *dismissed* as the effects of the writing -
these ARE the effects of the writing...
really, we can't legitimately be reading for interpretations, or seeking
the "meaning" -
but we can be active in recognizing the effects,
the text itself as a socially symbolic act - not written in lieu of its
historical constraints,
but rather as an activity within its historical constraints.
once we disregard the issues that Anna and Carl raise, i think we do a
disservice to the historical aspect of cultural-historical activity -
don't you think?
diane
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:point where everything listens.
and i slow down, learning how to
enter - implicate and unspoken (still) heart-of-the-world.
(Daphne Marlatt, "Coming to you")
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
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university of colorado, denver, school of education
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