Ay me, this object kills me!
(TITUS ANDRONICUS,Act 3, Scene 1)
At 01:54 PM 5/23/00 -0600, Diane Hodges wrote:
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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.
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>>"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."
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>>
>>G. Spencer Brown - "Laws of Form"
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>>----- 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.
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>(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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Bill Barowy, Associate Professor
Technology in Education
Lesley College, 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2790
Phone: 617-349-8168 / Fax: 617-349-8169
http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/wbarowy/Barowy.html
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"One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself
and watch yourself softly become the author of something beautiful."
[Norman Maclean in "A river runs through it."]
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