At 4:01 AM -0400 4/4/01, William E. Blanton wrote:
>At 12:41 AM 4/4/2001 -0400, Ana Marjanovic Shane wrote:
>
>>If we want to take "collective activity system" for an analytic
>>unit, then I need more discussion of the notion of an "object" .
>
>Me, too, Anna.
The English notion of "object" easily confuses two different issues:
We should not set up a binary opposition between subjects and
objects. First, the English "object" should be read as the German
"Gegenstand" (as in object of inquiry) rather than as "Objekt" (as in
material object) (Leont'ev, 1978). Second, with Bourdieu (1997),
Holzkamp (1983), and Ric¦ur (1992) I believe that it is because of
our material bodies that we also become social bodies. That is, the
material nature of human subject is a precondition for their
sociality. Third, there are social and material qualities not only to
human subjects, but, as social studies of science has shown, also to
objects, tools, and artifacts (e.g., Latour, 1993).
M
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