Re: [xmca] RE: The Social Creation of Inequality

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Projects have a life cycle. The end of a life cycle (apart form 
disappearing into nothingness) is objectification. This means fixed 
material representations, including words as signs for a concept, and 
social practices which constitute the concepts in practice. But in my 
view, concepts and institutions all pass through a phase of being 
projects. But I think that even though calling an institution a project 
is a bit counter-intuitive, it gives you a good handle on the dynamics, 
the history and the potential for change.

Andy

White, Phillip wrote:
> Andy, you wrote:
>
> "I stick to my position, that "institutions" should be regarded as
> projects, not tools or material artefacts of any kind (though artefacts
> are needed in the realisation of an institution, such as signage,
> legislation, all kinds of documents, buildings, uniforms, etc., etc)."
>
> Projects...... an intriguing, to me, idea - institutions as projects - particularly considering the root of the word - and its cousins, like "projectile", etc.
>
> many thanks for this thought.
>
> p
>
>
> Phillip White, PhD
> University of Colorado Denver
> School of Education
> phillip.white@ucdenver.edu
>
>
>   

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