Subject: Re:  BHA: Aristotle the joker
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 08:55:22 +0000


Hi Howard,

On the metal being reproduced or transformed, yes, but the analogy with
social relations only works up to a point. In our everyday activities we do
not generally transform social relations into a different product. We always
need the media(social structures) through which to act but very rarely do we
produce a new set of social structures in the manner of the metal being
transformed into a new product. We might want to say that our social factory
begins with a pristine piece of stainless steel and produces a piece of
stainless steel grubby with the hands of the worker. Apart from events like
1917 that is, but then again, even then some social structures were being
reproduced and not transformed. The point about the TMSA, for me, is not
that social structures are constantly being transformed, but that it shows
the potential for transformation and embeds it in the activity of the people
inhabiting the social field.

Thanks,


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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Tel: (01970) 621769

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