[Xmca-l] Re: Re-search Testimonio and Hermeneutics

[Larry Purss]

Annalisa,
If we first consider *testemonio* or more generally *works* as human modes
in contrast to the more general *objects* that may include testimonio,
literature, painting, commentary, AS  *works* but go beyond *works* then we
can contrast notions of *works* as parts and notions of *objects* as being
more encompassing, general, and abstract because *objects* also includes
natural phenomena.
    Hermeneutics then is understood as re-searching  the meanings expressed
through  culturall historical *works*.  Meaning as mutual intersubjective
phenomena within human *works* is the realm of activity which
*philosophical hermeneutics* explores both theoretically and practically.
Voice, and witnessing and the notion of "hearing each other into voice" is
the ethical virtue expressed within the theoretical foundations of
*philosophical hermeneutic(s)*

Testimonio can be *read* as a more specific situated event of re-searching
this particular type of  meaning as cultural modes of creating *works*
Larry

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Annalisa Aguilar <annalisa@unm.edu> wrote:

> Larry,
>
> What I wonder though is if it isn't a mode but a meaning. It isn't the
> testimonio per se (as a mode), but what it points to, what it references.
> Otherwise it is just a transcript, and I don't think that that is what you
> *mean*.
>
> We don't search for modes, we search for meaning, don't we?
>
> Just adding to the soup!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Annalisa
>
>
>
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> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Re-search Testimonio and Hermeneutics
>
> Yes, multi-modal.
> The notion of *encompassing* suggests that *voice* and *hearing each other
> into voice* has been less dominant and in some ways marginalized. Not in
> fact, but in theory.
> A case could also be made for other *modes*.  However *voice* as used by
> Richard Palmer is indicating another tradition that overlaps our re-search.
> Testimonio is exploring *voice* AND *design* and *third spaces* which can
> deepen our understanding of modes as multi-modal and deeply complex. It is
> a SPECIFIC STANCE answering a particular situated reality, but may also be
> exploring a more encompassing
> way of living.
> Larry
>
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Annalisa Aguilar <annalisa@unm.edu> wrote:
>
> > Unless of course one is a painter, then one's medium is pigment and
> > linseed oil!
> >
> > If one is a photographer, then it is light and silver nitrate.
> >
> > :)
> >
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> >
> > … If the matter is considered deeply, it becomes apparent that language
> is
> > the "medium" in which we live, and move, and have our being.
> >
> >
>