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Re: [xmca] Hallucinating Romantic Science

This has been floating around my classes, sorry about the confusion. I
think its relevant.
mike

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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