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Re: [xmca] Hallucinating Romantic Science



yes, mike, if easily accessible, please repost.
I only know Leguin from her book "That's Funny, You don't look Buddhist"
Would love to read more.
-greg

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:25 PM, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:

> Could we call this ambivalence/contradictionS a necessary property of joint
> cultural/mediated activity perhaps. Resistance to too much subordination is
> the otherface of having no categories at all. I have sent Ursula Leguin's
> short story She Unnames Them to you-all didn't I? If not, shame on me and I
> will repost. It is all about classification/naming and resistence.
> Something about power and gender in their too, although my students had a
> hard time believing me when I said that.
> mike
>
>  Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Greg, your additional commentary on the resistance to being classified,
> but
> > at the same time wanting to honour and acknowledge our ancestors, is
> > another one of those contradictions [ambivalences??] which I find
> > fascinating.
> >
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