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Kinship is a project as its a relationship. Carol Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com> Sender: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 07:52:07 To: Andy Blunden<ablunden@mira.net>; eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity<xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> Reply-To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> Subject: Re: [xmca] Re: Knotworking (ex: Double stimulation?) Andy, So would you say that "kinship" implicates projects (or that it IS a project)? Or that "projects" instantiate kinship (i.e. they are the basis for kinship)? Or both? Or neither? -greg On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > I most certainly appreciate this use of the concept of "project", Greg. > This is one of the main lines of enquiry opened up by the concept of > "project", as a foundational concept for *social theory*: the myriad ways > in which different projects - form alliances, subsume one another, > "colonise" other projects, enter into relations of mutual exchange or > cooperation-while-remaining-**independent (hiring each other or buying > and selling each others' products), or collaborate normatively with one > another, generate new, mutually meaningful objects or ideals, enter into > mortal conflict or merge with one another, etc. In fact, as "project" is > intended as a *unit* of human social life (as well as a fruitful concept > for psychology), it is precisely this "algebra" of contcatination, or > "knotworking" if you will, which is opened up by taking the project as a > unit rather than a system concept. > > Andy > > > Greg Thompson wrote: > >> Antti, >> >> I see that in the case described (of the librarians), the concept of >> "knotworking" is a largely intentional (although not always controllable) >> concept. >> >> But I also see in Engestrom's earlier piece, When the Center Does Not >> Hold, >> that knotworking is used as an etic concept, that is a concept used by him >> and his colleagues to describe what people are doing. As such, it seems >> like this kind of knot-working is somewhat less intentional or - maybe >> better - less explicit. It is something that people are doing without >> knowing it (to paraphrase Marx via Zizek). >> >> Both usages of knotworking seem very productive and useful. >> >> With regard to knotworking, I would like to suggest other, more >> traditional >> forms of knotworking, such as kinship and gift-giving. The practices that >> surround kinship and gift-giving are crucial for imbricating persons with >> each others projects (to use Andy's concept in a way that he might or >> might >> not appreciate...). >> >> And, of course, despite our thoughts to the contrary, kinship and >> gift-giving still play an important role in the here and now of hospitals >> and libraries. >> >> -greg >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Antti Rajala <ajrajala@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> > > > ______________________________**____________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/**listinfo/xmca<http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca> > -- Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology 883 Spencer W. Kimball Tower Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 http://byu.academia.edu/GregoryThompson __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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