Still rambling,
Judith
P.S., Since I will be away for the rest of July, I will miss the
rest of the CP discussions. I hope that someone is caching them
in a single file.
P.P.S. Well, I suppose I did in the end use the CP discussion
to consider personal matters. I noticed in my language above
(secret, portentous mystery, caching valued texts/meanings)
an oblique reference to death.
Perchance to be continued...
>All of which leads me to wonder why the genesis of artifacts isn't
>identified as line of development in a way parallel to ontogenesis. What
>this would give us is a scheme that includes microgenesis, ontogenesis,
>genesis of artifacts, mesogenesis, then cultural-historical (as a higher
>yet level of system integration), then phylogenesis, and finally (following
>Cole and Engestrom 1993) genesis of the physical world. Besides being a
>useful scheme for directing research attention, it seems to me that a lot
>of notions that have been developed mainly in the context of ontogenesis
>also would apply to the genesis of artifacts and activity systems (e.g.,
>the parallel between the kind of abbreviation that happen in
>internalization and in sedimentation in artifacts, possible extensions of
>notions like leading activity to artifacts and activity systems).
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>And now back to artifact production.
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>Paul Prior
>p-prior who-is-at uiuc.edu
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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