Diane,
maybe after we see a few more responses to Alfred's query about the
"conceptual system for communicating about bios and culture" we can combine
your poetics and the inevitable science terminology with some ACTION and
pull together a great perfomance piece. I'm quite flexible.
Elizabeth
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From: dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu [mailto:dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 7:38 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: RE: context/development
alfred asks:
>I would like to ask anybody on the list whether you think there exist
>a conceptual system capable of describing bios and culture in the
>same terms so understanding what is common to both and what is
>different and why is at all possible.
this is a problem i noticed in the discourses of Education, and indeed of
all the so-called
disciplines, the un-translatable character of each specialization -
i just finished reading "The poetics of Space" by philosopher Gaston
Bachelard, who - formerly a philosopher of science, moved into the
phenomenology, and specifically the phenomenon of "poetics" -
this echoes what i have in the works of Julia Kristeva, a feminist
psychoanalyst in the French traditions, who also argued that through
poetics, the work of semiotics changed into
something else, a difference between representation and symbolism required
for
communicating what cannot yet be articulated -
so while i admit this will land in the mud, as the "unpopular" response, i
personally believe, and practice in the work of developing a poetics that
communicates interdisciplinarily.
alas, 'tis not science, and so not offering much.
but i've always got spare change, and these are indeed my two cents,
centimes, deux sous, dos centavos,
gracie, gracias, ciao
diane4
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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
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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