Re: [xmca] Project

[Carol Macdonald <carolmacdon@gmail.com>]

Try philosophical version--people have projects:

Carol


On 2 April 2013 18:33, Glassman, Michael <glassman.13@osu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
> How about this,
>
> To project (the verb),
>
> The ability to extend human activity into a larger human arena where it
> can be joined or experienced by more minds.
>
> When I speak louder I project my voice so more can hear and consider what
> I say.
>
> When I write on the Internet I project the workings of my mind so more can
> consider what I am thinking.
>
> When I use a can I project out my own senses so I can have a better
> understanding of the world around me, gaining new perspectives of nature.
>
> Project (the noun)
>
> To engage in an aim directed activity that has some intrinsic good (circa
> Dewey 1916)  that involves multiple minds/perspectives of nature.  The
> project is realized when the aim is achieved, but then it is possible to
> "project" you achieved aim outwards.
>
> Michael
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>
> No one can provide me with the definition of "project"?
>
> Brecht, let me return to the material you copied from your doctoral
> thesis. Let's take the opening sentences:
>
> On Apr 1, 2013, at 2:47 AM, Brecht De Smet <Brechttie.DeSmet@UGent.be>
> wrote:
>
> > "The historical process of capital accumulation and proletarianization
> > on a world scale has created forms of wage labor and exploitation that
> > constructed the modern working class as a passive Object of history.
> > Persons who can freely dispose of their labor power, but who do not
> > possess their own (sufficient) means of production are forced into the
> > activity-system of modern wage labor.[1][1] Their activity of wage labor
> > is born out of necessity, and oriented towards the goal of reproducing
> > their natural and social life.
>
> What we find here is your explication of a "historical process" that has
> constructed (I'd say 'constituted,' but let that pass), a class of persons.
> Not simply a crowd (I recall your previous critique!), but a class, which I
> presume you would agree is not simply an aggregate of individuals. As a
> result, you suggest, the actions of individuals who find themselves to be
> members of that class (I presume they didn't choose to be working class?)
> are constrained - people are "forced" to sell their capabilities in order
> to obtain a wage in order to eat in order to live. Their goal -
> "reproducing their natural and social life" - is not intrinsic to their
> activity - "wage labor" - because, as you say, the goal exists prior to the
> activity, and to a great degree the activity undercuts the goal - for many
> it's hard to eat and live under the conditions of exploited labor.
>
> All of this is, IMHO, a great analysis! You take into account the social
> world in which people act, and how it constrains their activity, you take
> into account the history of this world, you take into account the necessity
> of reproduction. I just don't see that any of this is built on "project" as
> a unit of analysis!
>
> But probably I'm confused...
>
> Martin
>
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Carol A  Macdonald Ph D (Edin)
Developmental psycholinguist: EMBED
Academic, Researcher, Writer and Editor
Honorary Research Fellow: Department of Linguistics, Unisa
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