Re: [xmca] Luria DVD query

From: Mike Cole (lchcmike@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 09:10:07 PST


Mary-- An article about displacement of human agency, where
actions.operations are
taken over by blackboxes controlled by other people is really an important
issues, seems
to me.

One question I am (obviously!) really interested is what the new context for
the autobio from
1979 does to our overall thinking about how to interpret what we read from
the Soviet era from the USSR (and US, of course). Both Bruner and Sachs were
stunned by the new material.
mike

On 1/25/06, Mary K. Bryson <mary.bryson@ubc.ca> wrote:
>
> Thanks to all who offered solutions. How very interesting <to me> that I
> was
> interacting with the DVD according to the mental map I cling to in
> relation
> to my Mac -- interacting with raw files. That is what I was trying to do.
> I
> had no idea that there was a "DVD player". I still insist on interacting
> with my Mac in pre-OS X mode -- where I am the *&^% whatever file type
> player.
> I am teaching scaffolding this week, and I think I will need to make some
> notes on the Zone of Debased Development where a technological
> infrastructure takes over what used to include the human actant as an
> intelligent creature, and makes direct engagement with digital materials
> impossible as it requires and insists on engagement with the simulation of
> the "DVD player" -- the box inside the box...
>
> Anyhow, yes, MAC DVD player works. And thanks to Mike and others for
> making
> these archival materials available. Fascinating.
>
> Mary
>
>
> On 1/24/06 8:31 PM, "Ed Wall" <ewall@umich.edu> wrote:
>
> > Mary
> >
> > You need to, hopefully, use the Mac DVD player.
> >
> > Ed Wall
> >
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I eagerly brought home my new copy of the Autobiography of Alexander
> Luria,
> >> only to find a collection of file types that I don't recognize on the
> DVD,
> >> and that my trusty Mac media players don't seem to like...
> >>
> >> Any tips on how to play these files much appreciated!
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Mary
> >>
> >>
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