On my mind, often, are the incompleted discussions about my book
on cultural psychology and Jim's on mediated action. Each reached
some invivible pre-midpoint barrier, and stopped.
Locally we are having a great series of lchc seminars on the analysis
of scientific/explicit versus everyday/implicite concepts as they
appear in a variety of contexts. I do not know how to get it properly
externalized.
Locally, we are in a vortex of activity engendered by a combination
of the anti-affirmative action, anti-bilingual education, and welfare
reform movements because our university is supposed to solve the
problem. In their attempts to do so, our university-community
collaborative systems have been taken up in many different contexts,
creating both a cornocopia of information and a practical nightmare
for someone like me who is trying to do serious analytic work on the
process.
I much appreciated Jay re-minding us of the temporality strain. There
must be a great MCA article in that set.
Of to act locally, but thinking xmcaglobally.
mike