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Nice idea, tony. i remember being held up interminably in the Montreal airport trying to get into the city!! mike On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote: > Anybody remember the discussion in Montreal* after Eugene spoke of the > example of his son wanting to hang out at the mall (for what > object/objective/motivation?)? > > Now I'm thinking there might be something of Dewey's notion of experience > of the aesthetic as that which requires no object/objective/motivation > beyond itself. > > *My memory is very visual, which is how I know it was Montreal ... I could > find that room in the Sheraton right now if I was there. Mike arrived late. > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, mike cole wrote: > > I have been pondering David Ke's question about the >> object/objective/motivation for play. It came together in my thinking with >> Yrjo's metaphor of being always "just over the horizon" and its dual >> material and ideal nature, most recently mentioned by Wolf-Michael. Might >> it >> be the dream of being coordinated with a world entirely consistent with >> one's own dreams? A world, extending, as Leslie White put it, that extends >> from infinity to infinity, in both directions? >> >> probably not, just wondering. >> mike >> > _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca