[xmca] Andy's article

                        I would agree Geoff that they do appear
transferrable, however,I believe Andy has a reason why they are separate.
Perhaps he could enlighten the group.

My main thought on the paper was that subject does indeed serve a good
purpose as the unit of analysis for CHAT. It is consistent with both the
historical philosophical underpinnings of CHAT as well as incorporating
many of the recent research and theororizing. Specifically, in the recent
papers I am thinking of Roth's paper on emotion and work.

eric

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"Geoffrey Binder" <geoffrey.binder@rmit.edu.au>
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Please respond to "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <font
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I loved the definition of consciousness as an activity system.

but am not sure about the distinction between the culture and society -
Andy's definition of each seems to be transferable to the other. For
example:
'society evolves through conquest, trade, migration of peoples, and class
struggles, shaped by technical innovation, concentration of capital,
religion, and so on; the culture created by people in the various
historical forms of their association is accumulated and passed on,
modified or lost in its own specific ways.' (p 256)
The definition of society, I think, could equally apply to culture, just
consider mass culture and how it evolves through conquest, trade, migration
of ideas, and class struggles, shaped by technical innovation,
concentration of capital, religion, and so on.

Cheers, Geoff

>>> <ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org> 13/12/2007 14:03 >>>

yeah you. . . .are ya gonna comment on Blunden's paper?

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