Philip,
Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge has seemed to me to be relevant in
these conversations. I salute CHAT practitioners because they persist in
trying to 'map' process in such detail. "Playing" with metaphors has
seemed a bit more safe to me.
Molly
Phillip White wrote:
>Molly wrote:
>
>>Eric, Mike, et al,
>>
>>I think complex systems theory works quite well as a metaphor. Of
>>course, it doesn't explain human behavior....it provides ways of
>>imagining/thinking about relationships, change, emergence. Recursion is
>>certainly useful for thinking about what transpires in CHAT, don't you
>>think?
>>
>
> yes - as are all theories, wouldn't you say? that they work as
>metaphors. rather like, say, the visual organizer of Engestrom's comples
>triangle - Vygotsky's simple triangle - actually a large V - all signs
>of metaphors.
>
>phillip
>
>
>* * * * * * * *
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>
>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
>university of colorado at denver
>denver, colorado
>phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
>
>
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