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Re: [xmca] RE: The Social Creation of Inequality

Andy
Thanks for the clarification.  Institutions have a life cycle. While still
"living" it is more accurate to refer to these conventionalized practices as
"projects" that are continuing to develop. Whe the cycle ends they become
dead ojectivications. Is this accrate?

Larry

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> Projects have a life cycle. The end of a life cycle (apart form
> disappearing into nothingness) is objectification. This means fixed material
> representations, including words as signs for a concept, and social
> practices which constitute the concepts in practice. But injects" omy view,
> concepts and institutions all pass through a phase of being projects. But I
> think that even though calling an institution a project is a bit
> counter-intuitive, it gives you a good handle on the dynamics, the history
> and the potential for change.
>
> Andy
>
>
> White, Phillip wrote:
>
>> Andy, you wrote:
>>
>> "I stick to my position, that "institutions" should be regarded as
>> projects, not tools or material artefacts of any kind (though artefacts
>> are needed in the realisation of an institution, such as signage,
>> legislation, all kinds of documents, buildings, uniforms, etc., etc)."
>>
>> Projects...... an intriguing, to me, idea - institutions as projects -
>> particularly considering the root of the word - and its cousins, like
>> "projectile", etc.
>>
>> many thanks for this thought.
>>
>> p
>>
>>
>> Phillip White, PhD
>> University of Colorado Denver
>> School of Education
>> phillip.white@ucdenver.edu
>>
>>
>>
>>
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