Re: [xmca] subjectivity

From: Ana Marjanovic-Shane (ana@zmajcenter.org)
Date: Mon Oct 31 2005 - 22:29:25 PST


Andy,
why do you think that that the mediation is discounted if you talk about
subjectivity and inter-personal processes on a continuum?
Ana M-S

Andy Blunden wrote:

> The problem is, IMHO, that once we define the relevant structure as
> inter-individual and intra-individual, we have moved away from the
> insights which have given the CHAT tradition its great strength. This
> posing of the problem makes the individual the basic unit of analysis
> and discounts the existence of mediation (i.e. the "CH" part of CHAT)
> at a fundamental level. Personally, I think this is the wrong way to
> go to find a solution to the objectivist tendencies in CHAT.
> Andy
> At 08:11 PM 31/10/2005 +0000, bb wrote:
>
> Further, subjectivity is a continuum of inter-individual to
> intra-individual processes (thus allowing for in-the-head processes
> such as memory and attention, as well across-the-heads processes
> such as communication?), supporting the claim that "This approach
> therefore helps to ascertain the agentive role of individual
> processes and of human subjectivity within a profoundly social,
> transactional, and object-related ontology of human life."
>
> Andy Blunden, on behalf of the Victorian Peace Network, Phone (+61)
> 03-9380 9435
> Alexander Surmava's Tour - September/October 2006
> [1]http://ethicalpolitics.org[2]/alexander-surmava/index.htm
>
>References
>
> 1. http://ethicalpolitics.org/alexander-surmava/index.htm
> 2. http://ethicalpolitics.org/alexander-surmava/index.htm
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