Hi Arlo, Would you please define 'agency' as you are using it so there is no quibbling about the term.
Marsha On May 9, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Arlo Bensinger wrote: > [Mark] > Freedom is a rig full of gas, a wide open road, a stack of audio CDs, and > some sweet rock and roll. Oh, yeah, and truck stops full of coffee. Just > watch out for the ones full of Vampires... > > [Arlo] > A nice metaphor for "freedom", since the agency one is able to act upon above > is constrained by many structures; the road, the availability of gas, the > adherence to "rules of the road", acts of weather (my "freedom" was > constrained one night in South Dakota by heavy rains that led to the > temporary closing of the Interstate), one's health, etc. > > The key is seeing that these structures both enable the agency of the driver > as well as constrain it. Our range of agency is not merely constrained by > structure, the structure provides the opportunity for agency as well. > > The road allows us to move, at the same time it limits our directions. > Without the road, the best we could manage is perhaps a 5-10 mph romp on a > moon rover across unpaved terrain. The road lets us get anywhere on the > continent fairly quickly, but the price we pay for this "freedom" is that we > follow the road. > > Someone once suggested to me its like corrective lenses. You "have" to wear > them to see, but this "loss of freedom" is combined with the "freedom" that > seeing enables. So we are constrained by the road, but at the same time the > road enables us to travel. > > Of course, all this (structure and agency) are not "fixed", but evolving > mutually, structures change and adapt as agency is applied, and in turn > agency changes and adapts as structures change. > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
