Isn't that what Kant did?
----- Original Message -----
From: Diane Hodges <dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 12:54 PM
Subject: Re(2): object of activity
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> It is probably necessary to be a woman (ultimate guarantee of sociality
> beyond the wreckage of the paternal symbolic function, as well as the
> inexhaustible generator of its renewal, of its expansion) not to renounce
> theoretical reason but to compel it to increase its power by giving it an
> object beyond its limits...
> (Julia Kristeva, Desire in Language, 113)
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> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
> >"Now the physicist, himself, who describes all this, is, in his own
> >account,
> >himself constrcuted of it. He is, in short, made of a conglomeration of
> >the
> >very particulars he describes, no more, no less, bound together by and
> >obeying such general laws as he himself has managed to find and to
record.
> >
> >"Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in
> >order (and thus in such a way as to be able) to see itself.
> >
> >"This is indeed amazing."
> >
> >
> >G. Spencer Brown - "Laws of Form"
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Bill Barowy <wbarowy@lesley.edu>
> >To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> >Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 5:44 AM
> >Subject: Re: object of activity
> >
> >
> >> When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to
> >everything else in the Universe.
> >> -- Muir, 1911, My First Summer in the Sierra
> >>
> >>
> >
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> :point where everything listens.
> and i slow down, learning how to
> enter - implicate and unspoken (still) heart-of-the-world.
>
> (Daphne Marlatt, "Coming to you")
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> diane celia hodges
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> university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
> instruction
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> university of colorado, denver, school of education
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> Diane_Hodges@ceo.cudenver.edu
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