xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>
>So is forced turn-taking an agonistic strategy? Or are we seeing more
>breakdown in the bullfighting/barnraising dichotomy? Or...what?
on computers, turn-taking is contradictory to the hardware - one mouse,
one keyboard, one user, the tech is hardwired for single-user mastery.
turn-taking in these contexts is a little peculiar, or that's my take
anyhow.
how do any of us manage to share our computers?
diane
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"Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a
cigarette in a gutter - all are stories. But which is the true story? That
I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard,
waiting for someone to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making
this note and then another, I do not cling to life."
Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931.
(...life clings to me...)
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
vancouver, bc
mailing address: 46 broadview avenue, montreal, qc, H9R 3Z2
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