Mike,
This is the first time that I have commented.
Just a short note to thank you and Karl Levitin for the DVD addition to
your most informative book The Autobiography of Alenander Luria: A Dialogue
with The Making of Mind. I found the DVD selections to be most
interesting, so informative and just an exciting addition to another one of
your great publications.
Clifford Morris
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At 09:10 AM 25/01/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>Mary-- An article about displacement of human agency, where
>actions.operations are
>taken over by blackboxes controlled by other people is really an important
>issues, seems
>to me.
>
>One question I am (obviously!) really interested is what the new context for
>the autobio from
>1979 does to our overall thinking about how to interpret what we read from
>the Soviet era from the USSR (and US, of course). Both Bruner and Sachs were
>stunned by the new material.
>mike
>
>On 1/25/06, Mary K. Bryson <mary.bryson@ubc.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks to all who offered solutions. How very interesting <to me> that I
> > was
> > interacting with the DVD according to the mental map I cling to in
> > relation
> > to my Mac -- interacting with raw files. That is what I was trying to do.
> > I
> > had no idea that there was a "DVD player". I still insist on interacting
> > with my Mac in pre-OS X mode -- where I am the *&^% whatever file type
> > player.
> > I am teaching scaffolding this week, and I think I will need to make some
> > notes on the Zone of Debased Development where a technological
> > infrastructure takes over what used to include the human actant as an
> > intelligent creature, and makes direct engagement with digital materials
> > impossible as it requires and insists on engagement with the simulation of
> > the "DVD player" -- the box inside the box...
> >
> > Anyhow, yes, MAC DVD player works. And thanks to Mike and others for
> > making
> > these archival materials available. Fascinating.
> >
> > Mary
> >
> >
> > On 1/24/06 8:31 PM, "Ed Wall" <ewall@umich.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Mary
> > >
> > > You need to, hopefully, use the Mac DVD player.
> > >
> > > Ed Wall
> > >
> > >> Hi All,
> > >>
> > >> I eagerly brought home my new copy of the Autobiography of Alexander
> > Luria,
> > >> only to find a collection of file types that I don't recognize on the
> > DVD,
> > >> and that my trusty Mac media players don't seem to like...
> > >>
> > >> Any tips on how to play these files much appreciated!
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> Mary
> > >>
> > >>
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