[Xmca-l] Re: some videos for a general audience
Andy Blunden
andyb@marxists.org
Fri Feb 7 01:46:58 PST 2020
You've said a lot of things I heartily agree with, Helen,
and it would help me a great deal if you would explain to me
exactly what you /mean/ by "the philosophy and the method."
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
Hegel for Social Movements <https://brill.com/view/title/54574>
Home Page <https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm>
On 7/02/2020 8:19 pm, Helen Beetham wrote:
> The two minute explainer videos are a wonderful idea.
> As a researcher I would be really interested to hear (and
> share) some two-minute, practical accounts of using CHAT
> in research settings. After years of working in the field
> and using (and recommending) AT as an analytical frame to
> other researchers, I’m finding that in order to submit
> something for a PhD I have to write an extraordinary long
> and detailed justification for its use, via critical
> theory, philosophy of language, and even evolutionary
> biology. The reason I think it’s so powerful a tool - and
> the reason I think it’s so controversial - is that it
> falls between sociological methods/explanations that tend
> to be hyper local and resist any systematic account of the
> relationships between agency, material artefacts, and
> cultural-historical systems - and more cybernetic or
> systematic accounts that dissolve human agency and
> meaning-making in the ‘factors’ and forces acting on a
> situation. AT comes through the middle - but exactly how
> it does that seems to me very particular to the context of
> study. I’d be interested in any thoughts or practical
> experiences - and apologise for any mistakes or naivity of
> my own understanding.
>
> The XMCA archives are a mine of useful discussion, but
> there are few really seminal articles - to someone not
> centrally involved it’s sometimes hard to make the link
> between the philosophy and the method.
>
> In solidarity
> Helen
>
> Helen Beetham, Researcher and Consultant
> @helenbeetham helenb33
> helen.beetham@gmail.com <mailto:helen.beetham@gmail.com>
> h.a.beetham@wlv.ac.uk <mailto:h.a.beetham@wlv.ac.uk>
> digitalthinking.org.uk <http://digitalthinking.org>
>
>
>
>
>
>> On 7 Feb 2020, at 01:41, Anthony Barra
>> <anthonymbarra@gmail.com
>> <mailto:anthonymbarra@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, thanks Andy. Good idea.
>>
>> And then after that we can have another chat, if we can
>> think of a worthy topic.
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 6:17 PM Andy Blunden
>> <andyb@marxists.org <mailto:andyb@marxists.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Totally wonderful questions, Anthony, questions which
>> beautifully illustrate the creativity of collaboration!
>>
>> I will record them on my webcam and edit them and
>> send them to you, rather than doing it by Skype.
>> Allow me a couple of weeks though. The first requires
>> a thought-out concise answer, and the other 2 require
>> a lot of thought.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> *Andy Blunden*
>> Hegel for Social Movements
>> <https://brill.com/view/title/54574>
>> Home Page
>> <https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm>
>> On 7/02/2020 4:34 am, Anthony Barra wrote:
>>> Hi Andy,
>>>
>>> I have two potential topics in mind, if you would
>>> find either (or both) of them suitable -- both with
>>> an audience of non-experts in mind:
>>>
>>> Topic 1 - a layman's explanation of the concept of
>>> /the social situation of development /through the
>>> eyes of an expert;
>>> /
>>> /
>>> Topic 2a - Thus far, what have been the worst, and
>>> the best, real-world outcomes from Marx's methods of
>>> analysis? Of Vygotsky's? Can these questions be
>>> objectively answered?
>>> Topic 2b - Why should - or how could - a skeptic or
>>> critic of Marx's economic analysis have faith in
>>> Vygotsky's psychological analysis?
>>>
>>> My motivations: for reasons I'm not totally sure of,
>>> I am a slow learner -- and at times feel like my
>>> understanding is progressing in reverse. Topic 1 is
>>> a component of cultural-historical theory I don't
>>> yet feel comfortable with; Topic 2 is something I
>>> personally am curious about, and it is also a topic
>>> I can't speak productively about in conversations
>>> with peers and friends. Lastly, I am motivated to
>>> continue building my youtube channel
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV_JLMKIELbpjSH3nbmISoQ/about>,
>>> in hopes that it will be a helpful resource to
>>> others who have been captured - and confused - by
>>> Vygotsky and his ideas.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:30 PM Andy Blunden
>>> <andyb@marxists.org <mailto:andyb@marxists.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I really like what you've done to make those
>>> two-minute quickies, Anthony.
>>>
>>> I'd be up for some more 2-minute Q&As if you
>>> are. And I've got better internet connection
>>> these days, too.
>>>
>>> Send me a list of topics/problems/questions and
>>> I'll pick something.
>>>
>>> The fact is: people don't watch hour-long
>>> youtube videos. Sadly. You have the solution. :)
>>>
>>> andy
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *Andy Blunden*
>>> Hegel for Social Movements
>>> <https://brill.com/view/title/54574>
>>> Home Page
>>> <https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm>
>>>
>>> On 24/01/2020 2:20 pm, Anthony Barra wrote:
>>>> Good evening,
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to share a small project I've been
>>>> working on recently, in an attempt to better
>>>> understand Vygotsky's ideas and implications.
>>>>
>>>> Short clips are here, averaging about 2 minutes
>>>> apiece: http://tiny.cc/dra4iz
>>>>
>>>> Longer ones are here, and I am very grateful to
>>>> Andy, Nikolai, and Peter for their generosity:
>>>> http://tiny.cc/bpa4iz
>>>>
>>>> Thank you, and have a great day.
>>>>
>>>> Anthony Barra
>>>
>
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