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On 27 October 2011 22:14, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 27 October 2011 20:56, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 27 October 2011 20:47, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Huw, >>> Is reality really something to be "penetrated." >>> -greg >>> >> >> If you wish to get from one side of a city to another, there are finite >> ways of doing so using conventional transport. If you wish to articulate >> that intention in terms of a particular route, you will have to mentally >> penetrate the fog of obstacles from A to B prior to an accurate >> articulation. Does 'penetrating to reality' sound better? Hopefully the >> gist is clear. >> >> > ... but that also the intention successfully acted upon is a change and > thereby a form of penetrating reality. > > I thought this loose-end might be helpful. Bourdieu, in 'Distinction' p387, expressed this aspect: "What the relation to 'mass' (and, a fortiori, 'elite') cultural products reproduces, reactivates and reinforces is not the monotony of the production line or office but social relation which underlies working-class experience of the world, whereby his labour and the product of his labour, opus proprium, present themselves to the worker as opus alienum, 'alienated' labour. i.e. the difference between a participatory, intentionally influential relation and a passive one. Huw __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca