[Xmca-l] Re: Ma (negative space) - Wikipedia

Sun Apr 2 06:35:13 PDT 2017

Michael, 
Thanks for this addition
 Holding spiel as leeway and wiggle-room. Entangling phenomenological, mind, and cultural (dimensions).

I hope others enter upon this stage engaging spiel.

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From: Wolff-Michael Roth
Sent: April 2, 2017 6:20 AM
To: Larry Purss
Cc: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [Xmca-l] Re: Ma (negative space) - Wikipedia

Larry,
Spielraum is not just about the physical room to maneuver, though the term clearly arises from concerns how much "Spiel" (leeway) there is for something, so Spielraum also is "wiggle-room." You can think about options or power for acting. Though developed out of a phenomenological agenda, it clearly has a cultural and mind dimension Michael

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On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 6:13 AM, <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote:
Wolff-Michael,
Your comment that
Here, we worked around phenomenological issues of room to maneuver. (spielraum: Play +space).
In the Western imaginary this has a spatial focus.
Maai (Japanese sensibility) adds the temporal and spielraum becoming ‘place-time’ as room to maneuver.
Your recent articles now exploring speech (fields) and (zones) of proximal development and existing with/out mediation.

It seems that there may be a continuity, a rhythmic flow or pulsing offering room to maneuver that is playing out.

On page 123 of your article discussing Maai you comment on spatial/ITY THROUGH knowing and mastering Maai:

Envisioning and enacting ‘spielraum’; giving rise to the very (spatiality) IN which maai operates.
The ‘intervals’ for any action -including- an interval to start, an interval to take actions course, an interval to end, and an interval to recover/recall.

16 years later you are re/thinking mediation and maneuvering with/out mediation, moving through speeching (fields).
Developing room to maneuver.

I appreciate your and Alfredo’s collaboration. Not sure if I have clearly  indicated my abiding interest in this theme that plays through maai, spielraum, mediation (as Latour accents). Playspaces. Play worlds.

Will return to reading the posted articles. I wanted to acknowledge the importance of your unfolding interests generating openings in which to maneuver.

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From: Wolff-Michael Roth
Sent: April 1, 2017 4:48 AM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Ma (negative space) - Wikipedia

Hi Larry, here a piece on Maii, including self-other relation, in the case
of karate-do, which we did as part of an inquiry that also included
teaching and teacher education. Domenico, at the time, was way into the
black belt categories and had done his MA on a phenomenology of karate and
his PhD on Piagetian themes of development, but here we worked also around
my phenomenological interests in room to maneuver (Spielraum) that I was
pursuing at the time  Michael

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On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 9:07 PM, <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote:

> Alfredo,
> 
> I am sending this wiki on an orientation or approach that I believe shares
> a close  family resemblance with the way Latour orients to the prism of
> ‘mediation’ in the four ways outlined in your post.
> The terms (hiatus) (gap) not a ‘bridge’ which emphasizes (intermediary)
> between two substantialist poles.
> 
> I may be offering two cryptic a response that lacks resonance?
> ‘Ma’ as presence/place pervades Japanese sensibility.
> Mediation (as presented by Latour) seems to explore similar phenomena that
> opens us to new horizons within the Western sensibility re/thinking
> consciousness.
> 
> The forward (/ ) indicating the phenomena of (ma).
> The (interval).
> I hear in Latour a way of approaching ‘mediation’ through ‘ma’ as the open
> local middle voice in Latin – conversare – (both active and passive).
> I may be way off base, but probing around the periphery in liminal places,
> transitional places, on the edges of consciousness (both singular and
> plural)
> 
> The soul knows no mediators (Mikhailov 2006) referenced in (Theorizing
> with/out mediators)
> 
> 
> Ma (negative space) - Wikipedia
> 
> 
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_(negative_space)
> Sent from my Windows 10 phone
> 
> 