[Xmca-l] Re: A preliminary note

[mike cole]

Just used up a whole tankfull, Greg.
Now I will take your advice. While I wait for it to be installed, I'll
go quiet so I can hear different voices whispering how it looks from where
they
are sequestered.
mike

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 10:57 AM Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Maybe time to get off the ethanol and switch to solar power?
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:42 PM mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues
>>
>>
>>
>> How wonderful it is to see xmca come alive again. Its amazing, really.
>> Locally in my privileged suburban neighbourhood, entirely unexpected,
>> genuinely new forms of sociality are springing up.  As an inveterate early
>> morning dog walker, it has been as if all the rains we have been getting
>> (not the dreaded drought we expected in February) have re-mediated
>> relations in a pro-social manner that extended out beyond the neighbourhood
>> into the surrounding town.  The common interest – the common belief that
>> what Beth is experiencing in Brooklyn awaits them and their families. So
>> better start developing some solidarity.
>>
>>
>>
>> And what brought about this change?  The INeffciency of neo-liberal
>> Capitalism that indeed is killing people and is doing it in a manner
>> designed by the 1%. Right now. Never mind the miracles of post-industrial
>> modernity. And the poor/powerless/subordinated are getting ground into
>> sausage. Bernie Sanders is being celebrated for having made his program of
>> socialist reform precisely because the bastion of neo-liberal capitalism
>> has revealed itself in a way that everyone recognizes. Now what? Or as they
>> asked in a different time and place, what is to be done?
>>
>>
>>
>> Your note, today, David, caught the MCA board in the middle of a longer
>> note spelling out a variety of changes that MCA is making to confront this
>> second “shock wave” that has hit our community.  A Re-generated XMCA still
>> has some older shock waves to deal with and a lot of in-our-faces wreckage
>> to confront. This crisis is not going away any time real soon.
>>
>>
>> I would like to respond more fully to the questions Greg raised and DAvid
>> responded to so extensively. But no more ethanol in the tank.
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Helen, for your invocation to the life of this fragile community.
>>
>>
>> Like all of you, I will be back as life permits.
>>
>> mike
>>
>> --
>> Being a social scientist is like being a geologist who studies rocks in a
>> landslide. Roy D'Andrade
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> For archival resources relevant to the research of myself and other
>> members of LCHC, visit
>> lchc.ucsd.edu.  For archival materials and a narrative history of the
>> research of LCHC, visit lchcautobio.ucsd.edu.
>>
>>
>> --
> Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> 880 Spencer W. Kimball Tower
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, UT 84602
> WEBSITE: https://anthropology.byu.edu/greg-thompson
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>


-- 
Being a social scientist is like being a geologist who studies rocks in a
landslide. Roy D'Andrade
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research of LCHC, visit lchcautobio.ucsd.edu.
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