Re: [xmca] When does an action begin and end?

[Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Pepper's discussion of "events" as units of analysis within a contextualist
world view might be helpful, Andy. World Hypotheses

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> I'll look in my Dewey and see what I can find. Then there's the internet
> which has lots of Dewey.
>
> It occurred to me that Bakhtin's utterance is delimited by turn-taking, and
> this is quite a nice definition for a pragmatic theory of social interaction
> etc. And then I realized that Vygotsky's conception seems to be very elastic
> on this point. Word-meaning shorter and much more cognitivist, the 'double
> stimulation experiments' more like Bakhtin's turn-taking, but the child
> development stuff much more open ended. And then 'activity' carries this
> connotation of being on-going and not delimited, which gives it quite
> different implications I think.
>
> And I certainly go with Im Anfang war der Tat.
> Andy
>
> Mike Cole wrote:
>
>> Some time before it ends, Andy?
>> For sure I recommend that you take a look at Dewey's early critique of the
>> reflex arc concept in dealing with
>> this issue. Which was in the beginning, anyway, the word or the deed?
>> mike
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:
>> ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
>>
>>    Can anyone tell me whether there has ever been any discussion about
>>    when an action begins and ends? (By "action" I mean in the technical
>>    sense of Activity Theory.)
>>    Andy
>>
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