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On 6 February 2012 22:36, Christine Schweighart <schweighartc@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Greg , > I'm going to watch the film showing next week Finally! http://www.anecologyofmind.com/screenings/ I've been waiting ages for this. And have been badgering people like the secretary of the cybernetics society <http://www.cybsoc.org/> to see it shown. Commerce obstructing science. Outrageous. :) Huw > - but I thought that the > quote you make was spoken by Von Glaserfeld - and he was saying that he > sometimes 'caught himself' - as exception from the way he thinks in his > world- thinking about 'things': when his radical constructivism is to not > do so (i.e that which is 'named as 'thing' is in process and dynamic > construction - in relation). e.g Archives de Psychologie vol531985. > he drew upon Vico and in that article gives an explication of 'Vorstellung > - which I happens to be talking about with someone else this week and > commented: > > Mention of Vico brought semblances of others’ writings on > Goethe/Hegel/Marx, and looking up Vico in the Stanford Encyclopedia of > Philosophy, the lineage goes back further, and also forward to Croce – who > was critiqued by Gramsci. The way von glaserfeld brought out the notion of > Vorstellung to explicate Simmel’s meaning, makes central a reading ‘of an > idea’ as an imaginative act, rather than an ‘iconic replica’ > representation > of some*thing* in the world. He relates the importance of this distinction > to orient towards ‘preference’ in form of thinking arising through its > functioning in the context in which they arise – or their ‘retention’ > ‘insofar as they turn out to be *viable* in the contexts of the organism’s > activities’ > > He is critiquing separation of subject and object and draws upon Vico's > 'pleasing relations' in a way of meaningful abstraction. > Here's the flyer clip > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7hOMAGEB7Ko > > Christine. > > > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca