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February 07, 2005
oh, piffle.
stephen north's the making of knowledge in composition in white's schemata...
i've been stalling about doing this for days, b/c i don't understand them. really. still.
what north is doing: trying to identify many separate pieces so he can (& we can) see & work with how they might work together to form the whole of the field. BUT he's not trying to say his division-system is the only way of doing it. so he's making a whole out of parts, but not out of necessary parts, because he recognizes that many different ways of dividing the mess up into parts would be equally valid--what's important is finding commonalities within each created category so that communication & participation within the whole is possible. it's not simple metaphor, it's probably in some ways ironic, but its primary purpose isn't ironic reflection... and i really still don't understand the other two. derek? jen? what's what north's doing called in hayden-white-land?
Posted by ttobryan at February 7, 2005 07:56 PM