Ricardo,
I am eager to respond to your rich posts and have been involved since Friday
in international activities at our Institute in NY which go through
Saturday‹and so I will have to wait.
Lois
> From: "Ricardo Japiassu" <rjapias@uol.com.br>
> Reply-To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:19:34 -0300
> To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Activating postmodernism
>
> I ask u please to forgive me if these messages on activating postmodernism
> are overpacking your e-mail box, but this is a way I have to figure out –
> although in a primitive and rough fashion – some ideas.
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> I read some days ago in a blog about last DE congress, held in
> Florianópolis-SC (a state in the southeast region of Brasil), that the fact
> of that congress – on distance education - only had happen in a synchronous
> timing was a “crying” contradiction. “Why people do not stay discussing the
> issues emerged in that assembly in ALN environments?” asked the blogger
> owner with no echo. What significance has a superficial discussion
> constrained by synchronous time? What this imprisonment to face-to-face
> interactions says? How an exclusion-inclusion or broader-narrow dialetics
> operates in such kind of exclusively presential enterprises?
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> Questions to be equated or, if u prefer, pre-texts to discoursive plays…
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> But, as I was saying at the head of this post, this is a way to put in words
> some thoughts, to share them. Now, I catch myself thinking in Holzman’s
> words on alienation in her draft paper:
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> “If, following Marx, we are commodified and alienated individuals, then
> transformative social change would entail the de-commodification and
> de-alienation of the “human products”—a positive and constructive process of
> producing sociality. Vygotsky’s social-cultural psychology, a psychology of
> being and becoming, can be employed (as it has in social therapy) to
> de-commodify and de-alienate, through a deconstruction-reconstruction of the
> ontology of modernist psychology in which human beings are understood to be
> only who we are. In social therapy’s process ontology, human beings are both
> who we are and who we are becoming. And who we are becoming are creators of
> tools that can continuously transform mundane specific life practices
> (including those that produce alienation) into new forms of life. Creating
> these new kinds of tools is the becoming activity of creating/giving
> expression to our sociality.” (p.17)
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> I’m not ashamed of “outing” what I am and what I’m becoming. I do not care
> if you have a bigger “cock” or a larger “ass”, even a jaguar fast leaving
> your garage at early morning with lights on. :-)
>
> I’m not perfect - same you are not too.
>
> I’m becoming and you too.
>
> I want to be happy
>
> - and to be happy, to me, righ now, is a de-commodifying relation with
> knowledge and people and culture and society and politics and so on ...
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>
> Well,
>
> - after this rude brainstorming let me come back arms to sholder –
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> I read also in that blog, refered here above, a post of a foreign professor
> invited to give a lecture in the congress. It was not written in a perfect
> Portuguese – and the blogger said that the professor asked he himself to
> post his message. I love it. Because although his message was not so perfect
> as if it would be posted by an academic translator it has its own value –
> the fact of be something original, singular, with his “chest”. – Hello...
> nothing against translators, please!
>
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>
> We could be more generous and relate ourselves to commodifying fetichism as
> well as to a de-objectifing transaction with people around.
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> I am giving classes to 4 groups in graduation – each one with 50 students -
> in a public institution of country zone of Bahia. No research, people onling
> running after their diplomas.There´s no microphone, no data-show, only a
> white board and no money to get Xerox or to print documents… Only six
> computer to all professors and students… I hate left home and go there to
> legitimate such a degradant pedagogic enterprise. But Brazilian economy goes
> very well – says President Lula.
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> Give-me a break!
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