Re: cultures of resistance (fwd)

Angel M.Y. Lin (mylin who-is-at oise.on.ca)
Wed, 10 Jan 1996 11:20:30 -0500 (EST)

Hi Bill, thanks very much for both of your messages, which are very
helpful to me! Hey, why apologize?! I think your "symptom" idea is a
stimulating one... after all, aren't we all half-baked here? :-) (Whose
ideas are "fully baked"? :-)
Cheers,
Angel

On Wed, 10 Jan 1996 BPenuel who-is-at aol.com wrote:

> Angel and others--
>
> About oppositional behavior being a "symptom":
>
> I think this is where my vestigial Marxist thinking shows up, or as I might
> reframe it now, systemic thinking. Any organization of practices where
> participants move among different cultural, political, and economic activity
> spheres is going to involve some tensions, leaks, breaks, and what not.
> Oppositional behavior in this respect can be a "symptom" in that it
> indicates where these are. I'm probably quite wrong to suggest, though,
> that any particular behavior is "only a symptom." I apologize for my
> half-bakedness there.
>
> Bill Penuel
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