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

Mmmm, I have not settled on whether "dead" is the right word.
"Objectivication" means that the project becomes an integral part of a way of life, reflected in a word in the language and other artefacts which are taken-for-granted as tied up with the concept which was once a project. In a sense it is very much alive, because it is enacted by living people and is part of the life of the community. But it no longer has a life of its own, so to speak. But projects also die in the sense that they are no longer enacted and are just a memory, like "old technology" or the soap box (trying to think of examples, I noticed that such projects often move over into metaphors). 

Andy

Larry Purss wrote:

Andy
Thanks for the clarification. Institutions have a life cycle. While still "living" it is more accurate to refer to these conventionalized practices as "projects" that are continuing to develop. Whe the cycle ends they become dead ojectivications. Is this accrate? Larry
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>> wrote: 

    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 injects" omy 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 <mailto:phillip.white@ucdenver.edu>
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