I'll be away for the next week where I can pretend that there is no
internet. I leave in the middle of a really interesting, multisided, effort
to re-cognize Ilyenkov, the material and the ideal.
It seems like we ought to start to look ahead to the Leontiev reading,
although I fear we are not prepared. I am hoping that Charles Tolman will
join the discussion, but he is retired and jealous of his time (a well
earned proclivity!). I am not at all sure about the Finns. Yrjo has been
feeling poorly and is suffering from the enormous success of his
ideas. Whether or not someone from the Developmental Work Group can
help out I am not sure. It would be really nice if we could get one of
our German colleagues to help out, but I am not sure who we might ask.
It would be good to have some plan of action. Charles asked me about that
and I could only guess at how it might work. We clearly need to allow
people time to ask questions chapter by chapter and to come up with some
way to summarize the range of interpretations that emerge.
I have not yet downloaded the text and my copy has long since
migrated to the land of missing socks. How many chapters are there?
Seems like time to apply all those neat theories about division of
labor, object of activity, and roles to XMCA's own activity.
Which makes it a perfect time for me to go fishing!
mike
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All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes
you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something
that isn't even visible. N. McLean, *A River Runs Through it*
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