Re: [xmca] Cultural Practices/Activities/etc

[Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>]

On 23 August 2011 14:10, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:

> How about umwelt, Andy?
> I warned you the survey was unsophisticated. Just the term envelope is a
> problem because it distinguish the envelope from its contents. Very
> difficult to get the "weaving/ co-constituting" impulse into
> environment/context/practice. of course, a woven tapestry is "just static,"
> relative to human experience, isn't it?
>
>
Is this in the same sense of "just going to the moon"?

I think that the psychological warmth of the material is also derived from
the subject's ability to penetrate the medium.  i.e. the cultural operations
the material evokes for him/her in its fabrication (the inverse of
alienation).

Also with respect to aesthetics, there is the workmanship of risk (David
Pye) in addition to the synthesis of sense.

Huw



> mike
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
>
> > Mike, reading through your excellent review of the different concepts of
> > context, along with event, situation, activity, practice, etc., is that
> all
> > of them conceive of the "supra-individual" object of analysis as
> something
> > esssentially static, and despite many declarations to the contrary and
> > proofs that individuals can modify their enivironment (by whatever name)
> are
> > that to which human individuals have to conform. "Event" is a little
> > different, at least in the way it is used by some writers, but generally
> all
> > seem to conceive of context as condition. Although supposed to be the
> source
> > of motivation (in some versions), they may rise to the level of being the
> > source of reward, but I see nothing which expresses what I regard as the
> > inherent striving of human life. I think this is a problem.
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > mike cole wrote:
> >
> >> Attached is an attempt I made several years ago to summarize the
> different
> >> terms and their uses. It is not in the least sophisticated about many of
> >> those cited or not, but it covers some perhaps-useful information.
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