Hi Bruce,
Honestly, as a cultural study, food is fascinating. Mushy peas and
baked
beans are pretty high on the list of yearnings. Cadbury's is huge -
anything
English and chocolate, really. Candy, like Dip Dabs and Sherbet
Fountains,
...and then there's the Walker's Crisps: cheese&onion, pickled onion
and
prawn cocktail...
that's just a wee sampling. Fun stuff like Spotted Dick, gross stuff
like
treacle, and anything McVities, especially Penguins.
Cheers,
Diane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Robinson" <bruce.rob@btinternet.com>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: FYI - Bramble House is ME, Diane Hodges, HI!
Hi Diane,
Good to hear from you again.
I am desperately curious to know what items the Brits yearn after and
are
missing in Quebec. Especially as chicken tikka masala is now the
national
dish...
The other Bruce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bramble House" <info@bramblehouse.net>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 6:21 AM
Subject: FYI - Bramble House is ME, Diane Hodges, HI!
I just saw my message and realized no one will know what the hell
Bramble
House is... it's a store I run, own, whatever, in a little village
here
in
Quebec, where I sell UK products to the minority of UK ex-pats who
live
here... ever supplying the minority with their needs, I reckon. Ha.
Cheers ya.
Diane Hodges
La Maison Bramble House
19 Valois Bay Avenue
Pointe Claire, QC H9R 4B4
Canada
Tel: (514) 630-6363
Fax: (514) 344-2994
www.bramblehouse.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bramble House" <info@bramblehouse.net>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: math for reproduction and domination
Hi all.
It's been a while (like, years?) since I've posted anything; partly
because
I've not had a lot to contribute, and partly (I found out recently,
and
thanks again Bruce for fixing that) because my email addresses were
confused... but I am thoroughly and quite completely compelled to
add
a
smattering of applause here to Michael and Kevin for their sweet
sounds
of
dissension (or as bb notes, this "trouble-making" ...!)
*quick kisses to little-b bill, I've always loved your enthusiasm
and
keen
sense of cool, fair and funny gender play, and nearly feminist
sensibility...*
Michael writes: "You may not be interested in this kind of trouble
making,
but in this
you make a choice as to the nature of the society you live in. I
think
a dose of social analysis of the kind Dorothy Smith, who argues for
a
feminist sociology, is required to interrogate our ideologies so
that
we can bring about a rupture. Bourdieu, too, asks us, as social
analysts, to break with the gaze through radical analysis of our own
presuppositions."
...and then Kevin follows up with:
"I just have to quickly comment on the concrete versus
"philosophical
path".
I think that anyone advocating for disrupting hegemony is in part
marginalized automatically by the fact that the "concrete" is more
likely
to
include reified artifacts of the dominant ideology. So staying in
the
"concrete" arguably means valuing the reified dominant ideology over
any
alternatives and considering alternatives can always be seen as
"abstract"
or "philosophical" or "non-concrete" precisely because reified
artifacts
reflect the cultural-historical-political status quo one may seek to
challenge."
This reminds me of footnoting "hegemony" in my lone article in MCA,
and
feeling as if I might be explaining polar ice caps to desert nomads.
Hee
hee. I kid.
I just have to admit that this language of ideology and these
references
to
Dorothy Smith, eeeeeeeeeh, ... well, it all just makes me WET! :)
Especially
Kevin's "reified artifacts of the dominant ideology..." Oooooh.
Yesh.
Yesh.
LOVE it.
Thanks guys. Really. This sort of thing almost makes me wish I were
back
in
the thick of it all.
By the way, hey Jay. You're still rocking all the boats. Good on
you.
Cheers y'all.
little-d diane
Diane Hodges
La Maison Bramble House
19 Valois Bay Avenue
Pointe Claire, QC H9R 4B4
Canada
Tel: (514) 630-6363
Fax: (514) 344-2994
www.bramblehouse.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolff-Michael Roth" <mroth@uvic.ca>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: math for reproduction and domination
Hi Bill,
I am not one of those editors who imposes his/her view of the world
on
others. I recognize the work in itself, even though I might
disagree
with the content. You notice that my own paper dealt with the
production and reproduction of identity in the context of urban
science, and the fragility of "success" to be and become a student
or
teacher.
You may not be interested in this kind of trouble making, but in
this
you make a choice as to the nature of the society you live in. I
think
a dose of social analysis of the kind Dorothy Smith, who argues for
a
feminist sociology, is required to interrogate our ideologies so
that
we can bring about a rupture. Bourdieu, too, asks us, as social
analysts, to break with the gaze through radical analysis of our
own
presuppositions.
Cheers,
Michael
On 11-Nov-04, at 8:52 AM, Bill Barowy wrote:
On Thursday 11 November 2004 11:24 am, Wolff-Michael Roth wrote:
historical situation of the activity system. You seem to advocate
that
we can understand children's and their teachers' actions just by
looking at a classroom.
I just can't believe YOU edited MY paper in MCA and can still make
that claim!
I'm going to step back and look at our own conversation. This is
not
the
kind of troublemaking i'm interested in.
bb
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