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Re: [xmca] Hallucinating Romantic Science

On 4 January 2013 01:53, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:

> This has been floating around my classes, sorry about the confusion. I
> think its relevant.
> mike
>

Yes and so lovely too.  Almost unamerican if you don't mind my saying: sell
it to McDonald's as a burger wrapping and fund a new college?

Actually, it was from other nearby (to you) American roots where I came
across this in systematic detail: C. Alexander's QWAN.


>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > yes, mike, if easily accessible, please repost.
> > I only know Leguin from her book "That's Funny, You don't look Buddhist"
> > Would love to read more.
> > -greg
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:25 PM, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Could we call this ambivalence/contradictionS a necessary property of
> >> joint
> >> cultural/mediated activity perhaps. Resistance to too much subordination
> >> is
> >> the otherface of having no categories at all. I have sent Ursula
> Leguin's
> >> short story She Unnames Them to you-all didn't I? If not, shame on me
> and
> >> I
> >> will repost. It is all about classification/naming and resistence.
> >> Something about power and gender in their too, although my students had
> a
> >> hard time believing me when I said that.
> >> mike
> >>
> >>  Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Greg, your additional commentary on the resistance to being
> classified,
> >> but
> >> > at the same time wanting to honour and acknowledge our ancestors, is
> >> > another one of those contradictions [ambivalences??] which I find
> >> > fascinating.
> >> >
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