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
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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
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<mailto: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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