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<P>That sounds a really good idea to my mind. BTW, Adrian was saying to me only yesterday that Hegel influenced Harold Walsby who influenced George Walford. Walford wrote "Beyond Politics" and "Angles on Anarchism" (just to wind him up, I always pretend to Adrian I think the title is Angels on Anarchism; it works every time!)<BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>justin <hooper_jackson@yahoo.com></I><BR>To: <I>laf@lists.aktivix.org</I><BR>Subject: <I>[LAF] Idea for Development of LAF</I><BR>Date: <I>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:53:11 -0700 (PDT)</I><BR>>Was thinking this evening (shock, horror!)<BR>>and it occured to me that one way of running<BR>>discussions and talks at LAF might be to kind of do<BR>>"work in progress" talks and discussions.<BR>><BR>>Each person picks a topic to research and each time<BR>>they give a talk or run a discussion they do so on the<BR>>particualr aspect of the research they are doing...<BR>><BR>>For example i was thinking about Hegel and the influence<BR>>of Hegel on Bakunin, Marx, and Bookchin say, and so i could do a<BR>>series of talks each concentrating on different<BR>>aspects of this topic: e.g. start
with Hegel - then<BR>>a while later do a talk/discussion on dialectics<BR>>and Bakunin, then look at Bookchin's relation to Hegel<BR>>and environmentlaism, etc...<BR>><BR>>Personally i feel my knowledge of anarchism and related<BR>>fields (and pretty well everything) is hotch potch and patchy -<BR>>it would be good to develop ideas, knowledge and understanding more<BR>>in depth... so this would be a good way of developing depth of<BR>>understanding...<BR>><BR>>Of course it would be up to each individual to pick what area they<BR>>wanted to research/talk about - my example was on quite an abstract theme<BR>>- but it could be anything! Maybe some would not want to<BR>>take this approach in their talks/discussions at all. The reason it<BR>>might be a good idea is that<BR>>it helps develops a deeper understanding of ideas -
rather<BR>>than just one off talks on this or that subject... And in giving<BR>>talks and running discussions participants would be informed - as well<BR>>as helping the researcher in developing an understanding of his/her<BR>>field.<BR>><BR>>Perhaps a mixture of one off talks and discussions plus guest facilitators/<BR>>speakers combined with a series of themed meetings would be the best approach...<BR>><BR>>You could even develop this further and have the approaches integrated<BR>>so that particiapants each research different aspects of some theme<BR>>and then each contribute over time by giving talks to inform others...<BR>><BR>>You could do this in different ways. E.g. supposing we all agreed we wanted<BR>>to know about, say, anarchists in the Russian revolution... We could all agree<BR>>on different aspects of this to research into and
then at a particular meeting<BR>>each contrbute, e.g. 20mins speaking on our own area of research - and then pool it<BR>>all together at the end of the session to get the big picture of the topic.<BR>><BR>>This makes sense of the worry about not having enough participants - it doesn't<BR>>matter how many are involved (as long as there are at leat just a few)... Those regulars<BR>>who<BR>>come along can, if they want to develop their own research program and inform others,<BR>>take this approach...<BR>><BR>>there might be problems perhaps if ppl just aren't interested in particular<BR>>themes or research areas - however if this approach is mixed with current approaches<BR>>maybe no one will get too bored...<BR>><BR>>Justin<BR>><BR>>__________________________________________________<BR>>Do You Yahoo!?<BR>>Tired of
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