1) I was running short of time, so sorry for any confusion. It didn't help
when the messages were not delivered in the order I sent them. Oh well,
that's cyberspace.
2). I created a X-Activity Highlights page from the early 90's. It is linked
from the leontev page at
http://communication.ucsd.edu/MCA/Paper/leontev/index.html.
It can be found directly at,
http://communication.ucsd.edu/MCA/Paper/leontev/activity/index.htm
There is also a nice publication on Dewey and Dialectical Materialism that
is interesting that was published in a 1989 Activity Theory Journal. There
is probally more stuff, but I think the above would be a helpful start to
clarify the Rub - Vygotsky - Leontev - affinities and differences that have
come up.
-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip White [mailto:Phillip_White@ceo.cudenver.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 8:54 AM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Cc: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re(2): Blast from the past 1
xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>
Arne, writing through the corporeal form of Andy, scrobe:
>
>
>"Internalization" of the structure of external activities then must
>mean mainly an *increase in self-regulation* that is brought about
>by building and using an "internal", i.e. *symbolic*, model of the
>world to anticipate the resistance of the material objects, and to
>overcome them somehow (nowadays the phrase "triumph over nature"
>has a very bad ring) in order to ensure our reproduction on earth.
>
>Arne Raeithel
"an increase in self-regulation" thank you, Arne. thank you Andy for
passing this on. so nice to have a definition that's an activity.
phillip
>
* * * * * * * *
* * *
The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
it means.
from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
Mendelsohn.
phillip white
third grade teacher
doctoral student
scrambling a dissertation
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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