[xmca] object/objective/motivation for play

[Tony Whitson <twhitson@UDel.Edu>]

Anybody remember the discussion in Montreal* after Eugene spoke of the 
example of his son wanting to hang out at the mall (for what 
object/objective/motivation?)?

Now I'm thinking there might be something of Dewey's notion of experience 
of the aesthetic as that which requires no object/objective/motivation 
beyond itself.

*My memory is very visual, which is how I know it was Montreal ... I could 
find that room in the Sheraton right now if I was there. Mike arrived 
late.

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, mike cole wrote:

> I have been pondering David Ke's question about the
> object/objective/motivation for play. It came together in my thinking with
> Yrjo's metaphor of being always "just over the horizon" and its dual
> material and ideal nature, most recently mentioned by Wolf-Michael. Might it
> be the dream of being coordinated with a world entirely consistent with
> one's own dreams? A world, extending, as Leslie White put it, that extends
> from infinity to infinity, in both directions?
>
> probably not, just wondering.
> mike
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