At 1:48 PM +0200 6/12/00, Eva Ekeblad wrote:
>What I can see is that when people talk about dialectics, they tend to
>focus on some central conceptual aspect of the process of world, while
>ecologically inspired approaches are more prone to include multitudes of
>aspects.
It IS the impression that I have -- a fundamental difference -- not of taking two things in relation at a time, but also triadic and higher nth-order relations at a time. But then why, after all, should we stop at three?
About refusing closure... quite aphoristically then, it seems one can refuse closure without putting principles in opposition -- if simply by recognizing the finite capacities... of our re-presentations... of an 'ecology' with it vast interconnectedness -- a re-presentation per se. (The hypenation intends to carry the dynamics of meaning-making, a process, in which the representation, especially recognizable if material, is a mediating device in the re-presentation to others and to the self.)
And then at 10:38 PM +0000 6/9/00, Judy Diamondstone wrote:
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>Human learning is not the same as ecosocial development -- our learning is
>one element in an ecology that we do not (maybe can not) fully apprehend --
>certainly an ecology that we can not possibly control.
I find this viable with a little qualification -- is not part of what technology (1) is about is control -- if only partial?
(1) as an ensemble of artifactual elements in the ecology.
Bill Barowy, Associate Professor
Lesley College
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