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So, in Henry Plotkin's terms, culture is the imagination made real, Andy? mike On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > 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<phillip.white@ucdenver.edu> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> -- ------------------------------**------------------------------* >> *------------ >> *Andy Blunden* >> Joint Editor MCA: >> http://www.informaworld.com/**smpp/title~db=all~content=**g932564744<http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title%7Edb=all%7Econtent=g932564744> >> <http://www.informaworld.com/**smpp/title%7Edb=all%7Econtent=** >> g932564744<http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title%7Edb=all%7Econtent=g932564744> >> > >> Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ <http://home.mira.net/%7Eandy/* >> *> >> >> Book: http://www.brill.nl/default.**aspx?partid=227&pid=34857<http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=34857> >> <http://www.brill.nl/default.**aspx?partid=227&pid=34857<http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=34857> >> > >> MIA: http://www.marxists.org <http://www.marxists.org/> >> >> ______________________________**____________ >> _____ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> >> >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/**listinfo/xmca<http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca> >> >> >> > -- > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ------------ > > *Andy Blunden* > Joint Editor MCA: http://www.informaworld.com/**smpp/title~db=all~content= > **g932564744<http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title%7Edb=all%7Econtent=g932564744> > Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ > Book: http://www.brill.nl/default.**aspx?partid=227&pid=34857<http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=34857> > MIA: http://www.marxists.org > > ______________________________**____________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/**listinfo/xmca<http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca> > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca