Re: [xmca] RE: The Social Creation of Inequality

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

So, in Henry Plotkin's terms, culture is the imagination made real, Andy?
mike

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> Mmmm, I have not settled on whether "dead" is the right word.
> "Objectivication" means that the project becomes an integral part of a way
> of life, reflected in a word in the language and other artefacts which are
> taken-for-granted as tied up with the concept which was once a project. In a
> sense it is very much alive, because it is enacted by living people and is
> part of the life of the community. But it no longer has a life of its own,
> so to speak.
> But projects also die in the sense that they are no longer enacted and are
> just a memory, like "old technology" or the soap box (trying to think of
> examples, I noticed that such projects often move over into metaphors).
>
> Andy
>
> Larry Purss wrote:
>
>> Andy
>> Thanks for the clarification.  Institutions have a life cycle. While still
>> "living" it is more accurate to refer to these conventionalized practices as
>> "projects" that are continuing to develop. Whe the cycle ends they become
>> dead ojectivications. Is this accrate?
>>  Larry
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:
>> ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
>>
>>    Projects have a life cycle. The end of a life cycle (apart form
>>    disappearing into nothingness) is objectification. This means
>>    fixed material representations, including words as signs for a
>>    concept, and social practices which constitute the concepts in
>>    practice. But injects" omy view, concepts and institutions all
>>    pass through a phase of being projects. But I think that even
>>    though calling an institution a project is a bit
>>    counter-intuitive, it gives you a good handle on the dynamics, the
>>    history and the potential for change.
>>
>>    Andy
>>
>>
>>    White, Phillip wrote:
>>
>>        Andy, you wrote:
>>
>>        "I stick to my position, that "institutions" should be regarded as
>>        projects, not tools or material artefacts of any kind (though
>>        artefacts
>>        are needed in the realisation of an institution, such as signage,
>>        legislation, all kinds of documents, buildings, uniforms,
>>        etc., etc)."
>>
>>        Projects...... an intriguing, to me, idea - institutions as
>>        projects - particularly considering the root of the word - and
>>        its cousins, like "projectile", etc.
>>
>>        many thanks for this thought.
>>
>>        p
>>
>>
>>        Phillip White, PhD
>>        University of Colorado Denver
>>        School of Education
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>> >
>>
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