I really doubt that it would be possible given some normative range
of notions of setting. I too am interested in complicity and collusion.
I am thinking here of the McDermott and Dore article on the necessity
of collusion in all conversation which I think can be straightforwardly
connected to contemporary uses of the term, discourse.
But institutionally, xmca is a little odd and that oddness is related
in some measure, to the fact that it is very distributively institutionalized.
I am in fact asking my friend Yrjo to put the server in Helsinki for
varoius reasons having to do with effort at institutional cooperation
and the server for a bilingual course we are doing with Mexican colleagues
resides in, and is controlled by people in, Pueblo.
What kinds of complicity retrievable from this discourse do you see, Diane, and
how might your incites make the discussion a better medium of/setting for
growth of our ideas?
mike