RE: [xmca] Tom Toolery

["Paula M Towsey" <paulat@johnwtowsey.co.za>]

Hello Andy-of-the-5-o'clock-shadow

Yet it's a different kind of gnashing of teeth (and wailing and weeping)
when the baboons at Third Bridge get stuck into the tinned supplies...

Paula



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Paula M Towsey
PhD Candidate: Universiteit Leiden
Faculty of Social Sciences



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Sent: 14 October 2010 13:19
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [xmca] Tom Toolery

My answer, Paula: yes.
My body, with its various parts, is an artefact; according to context,
symbol or tool.
My face and my 5 o'clock shadow is a symbol just as much as the shirt I
wear. My teeth a tool just as much as a can opener.

Andy

Paula M Towsey wrote:
> For some inexplicable reason while watching Mike's blind man with a 
> stick video, I remembered smsing Carol with a quirky question: if a 
> researcher without a knife is trying to open an airline packet of 
> peanuts, and she resorts to using her teeth, what tool is she using?
>
> Though, perhaps the better question would be - is she using a tool.?
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