Yes, while I was making dinner, I figured that out.
It wasn't obvious to me, because it is not how I see the function of "the
letter". In a Dorothy Smith world of textually-mediated institutional
relations, I figure that once I was "permitted" to write, "they" had already
decided that their witch-hunt had failed. "The letter" signalled and
mediated my return to the "total institution". I think I could have handed
in a bunch of blank pages and the outcome would have been the same.
And the article is not about me, anyway. I only included the
autobiographical preamble because the subject - for me - is about life and
death stuff.
M
On 1/21/02 6:14 PM, "Bill Barowy" <wbarowy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The letter to the president that preceeded your tenure!
>
> bb
>
>
> --- Mary Bryson <brys@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:
>> Okkkkkkkkkkkk um, no capish
>> Letter??
>>
>> M
>>
>> On 1/21/02 1:20 PM, "Bill Barowy" <wbarowy@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That must of been some special letter.
>>>
>>> bb
>>>
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>> overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
>> Ivan Illich.
>>
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>> British Columbia
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School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of
teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite
overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Ivan Illich.
Mary Bryson, Associate Professor, ECPS, Faculty of Education, University of
British Columbia
Research Site: http://www.shecan.com and http://www.e-capacity.ca
Digital Studio Site: http://www.digital-studio.org
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