Re: [xmca] Luria DVD query

From: Mike Cole (lchcmike@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 14:06:55 PST


Glad it was meaningful to you, Clifford. The Russians don't want to
remember the guy and this is my effort to try to get them to. If you could
put on Amazon what you said to me, it would sure help!

What might we be talking about that would be of use to all of us?
mike

On 1/25/06, Clifford Morris <cmorris@igs.net> wrote:
>
>
> Mike,
>
> This is the first time that I have commented.
>
> Just a short note to thank you and Karl Levitin for the DVD addition to
> your most informative book *The Autobiography of Alenander Luria: A
> Dialogue with The Making of Mind*. I found the DVD selections to be most
> interesting, so informative and just an exciting addition to another one of
> your great publications.
>
> Clifford Morris
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> At 09:10 AM 25/01/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>
> 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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