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Re: [xmca] Hybridity in Living Color
What I like about it is the idea that the tension between mechanical organization and organic organization is reproduced within the mechanical and within the organic, and it never goes away; there is no point of entropy.
I think that's what strikes us in Thinking and Speech. BECAUSE they have separate roots, they can merge and transform each other and branch again (into verbal thinking and thoughtful speaking) and each branch can branch again.
For example, reading is intensely VERBAL verbal thinking and mathematical logic is much more THOUGHTFUL verbal thinking. In an opera an aria is much more like thought and a recitative is much more like speech but neither one is really speaking. And within each speech genre, new gradations arise.
Is that hybridity? It seems to me that hybridity lacks the idea of dominance, and contains the idea of entropy, and I think in the oppositions we are looking at the shifting nature of dominance and the lack of ultimate entropy are both key.
For example, as a painter, my first response to this thing is to ask: That's an OIL painting? It sure looks like acrylic to me. With oil you get MUCH better definition between flesh and non-flesh. Acrylic is great for clutter (and this is a really cluttery painting) and oil is better for nuance.
I guess if I were doing this painting I would use both (acrylic first, and then oil to top off the organic bits). But I would definitely want the sense that acrylic and oil are really like salad dressing: you can get an infinitely delicate emulsion, but you will never get a mixture.
David Kellogg
Seoul National University of Education
--- On Sat, 10/16/10, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
From: mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>
Subject: [xmca] Hybridity in Living Color
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture,Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Date: Saturday, October 16, 2010, 12:54 PM
This image which served as the cover for cultural psychology has, among its
virtues, that it
appears to match key themes of the book, including the metphorical use of
culture-as-garden
and humans as hybrids.
Pretty too.
mike
http://www.philipayers.com/images/oilpaintings/paintings90_prs/Fullsize_90_prs/01.jpeg
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