Re: AUT: Re: what is to be done with what is to be done? Survival of the "FIT"

[Sebastian Budgen <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, you'll be able to judge when the volume comes out, but the other
papers were generally relatively scholarly attempts to engage at a
greater level of detail with one or other particular element of Lenin's
thought and relate this to contemporary problems. Doug's piece,
whatever its merits, does not attempt to do this, in the view of the
editors (who include Slavoj, by the way).

However, Doug, you will no doubt throw this back in my face, but were
you interested in writing a new piece that, for example, examined
Lenin's writings on finance capitalism, state capitalism and so forth,
and related them, even if very critically, to contemporary issues, that
would be most welcome.


On Oct 28, 2004, at 7:26 PM, Thomas Seay wrote:

>
> --- Sebastian Budgen <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unfortunately, it had very
>> little to do with the
>> subject of the conference and it's register, while
>> perfectly acceptable
>> on its own merits, didn't fit with the other papers.
>
>
> What does that mean that it did not "fit" with the
> other papers?  If you have a conference and invite a
> number of presenters, uniformity should not be
> expected or, at least, not desired.
>
> I've read Doug's piece and think it brings up some
> good points.  Apparently, so do you Sebastien, so why
> was it excluded and can you point me to some of the
> presentations that DO "fit"?
>
>
> =====
> The real world gives the subset of what is; the product space
> represents the uncertainty of the observer.  The product space may
> therefore change if the observer changes; and two observers may
> legitimately use different product spaces within which to record the
> same subset of actual events in some actual thing. The "constraint" is
> thus a relation between observer and thing; the properties of any
> particular constraint will depend on both the real thing and on the
> observer.  It follows that a substantial part of the theory of
> organization will be concerned with properties that are not intrinsice
> to the thing but are relational between observer and thing.
>
> W. Ross Ashby
>
>
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