Re(2): the evolving triad

Katherine Goff (Katherine_Goff who-is-at ceo.cudenver.edu)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 08:27:19 -0700

Eva writes:
>isn't the transformation of the triad rather done by a naming of the
>_actant_ of each node? So the tool is acting in way of mediating link, the
>_subject_ acting in way of response and the _object_ acting in way of
>stimulus.
>
>The behavioristic vocabulary of the first triad formulation would seem to
>render the individual as the _passive_ actant and the environment as the
>_active_ actant, while the philosophical vocabulary of the second triad
>reverses the power, so to speak... for me the whole point is that the
>relation works both ways simultaneously, which is what I have learned to
>project into the subject-object-mediator terminology.

this makes sense to me (i like it),
and in answer to Judy's question,
i wasn't aware of the history of the triangle (i assumed it was _the
triangle_) nor the history of Vygotsky's mediated action triangle leading
(as i assumed) or not to Leont'ev's activity systems triangle leading or
not to Yrgo Engestrohm's triangle leading to . . . what?
Bucky balls?

kathie

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