This makes Jay's repost from the Bourdieu list intriguing. I should probably
find a copy of Thrift before commenting but can't resist noting that "non-
representational thinking" or "modest theories" seem in line with the
notion of mimesis as developed thus far, particularly in the suggestion of
what explanation means -- of what getting to know something means -- with
representation (theories/models) forming only part of the process. I would
suggest though that rather than weakening ontology (what we know) and
epistemology (how we know it), it is only the separation between the two
that is softened. A situated, mimetic individual is, for me, even more a
knowing individual than ever before -- profoundly _nexial_ -- and yes,
still very much an individual, just not so lonely.
Rolfe
PS: sorry about the stone-punting Johnson's -- I think I was in the wrong
century. Elya/Ilya will have to be satisfied with my dyslexia (I try not to
be careless with cites but I do indeed slip up now and then -- I think Vera
corrected my spelling of Polanyi one time <sigh>).
PPS: thanks to Eva for the translation/explication -- that sounds just right.
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