Re: Appropriation, Part 2
Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:16:06 -0700 (PDT)
Hi David--
Your EXCELLENT summary of galperin vis a vis appropriation/
internalization bring to light an ambiguity that I think is critical
to examine. Any system that does "higher-lower" maps uneasily onto
a three part system with a hybrid, "matrialized ideal", middle part.
I believe that Ilyenokvian formulations of the Theses on Feurbach
help to think about that middle/mediating part. My attempt to deal
with these issues tried to elaborate the conception of artifact to
do the job. From this perspective, appropriation applies to the
system that includes all three "moments" of transaction which
exist as moments only analytically. Its process all the way down,
but without entification the flux would be intollerably chaotic.
mike