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Thanks Andy. The first sentence is garbled/ It should read do not reduce mediation to instrument. mike On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [xmca] further thoughts on the book "Vygotsky in > Perspective" > Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:40:36 -0700 > From: mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> > Reply-To: lchcmike@gmail.com > To: ablunden@mira.net > > > > Hi Andy-- > > Sorry to be slow. What i reported was a note in the margin of the paper by > Latour on Morality and Technology: do not reduced mediation reduced to > instrument. > In writing this I was thinking that instrumentalism seems to assume a > pre-figured goal while mediation emphasizes the ongoing process in which > the object of activity is always "just over the horizon." In such a > process, goal formation becomes essential for action. With the goal > specified, one can conduct an analysis of the means used to achieve that > goal. But if the object, and correspondingly, the goal, are > under-specified, if they require, let us say, a dollip of imagination, > might change, opening up other possibilities for action. > I relate this issue to the earlier discussion of Leontiev in his > Stalinist/Lysenkoist mode. The object of activity is PRE-scribed. The > State sets the agenda. > > The issue of goal formation is something we worried a good deal about in > /The Construction Zone/. What is unusual about that book in this context is > that we took Leontiev's ideas very seriously in attempting to theorize our > work. Yet a major conclusion was that in order for learning to generalize > broadly, it is essential that goal formation be a part of teaching/learning > process. > > Anyway, that was what I got to thinking about. > > mike > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net <mailto: > ablunden@mira.net>> wrote: > > What would a reduction to intrumentalism claim, Mike, and what (in > brief) is such a reduction omitting? Is there an examplar we can > read? ANd who was accusing who in relation to LSV and ANL? > Andy > > mike cole wrote: > > To me a central message, among many, Larry, was Do Not Reduce > Mediation to > Instrumentalism. Seems like a key issue in the presumed > development of LSV > thought from 1928-1934 and a key issue in LSV vs ANL. > mike > > > > ______________________________**____________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/**listinfo/xmca<http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca> > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca