Dear Lubomir,
I would appreciate if you would substantiate your claims about Freire
and why it is not worth our effort to discuss his thoughts on this
list. I have found your own posts so far quite populist in tone, and
(based on what you have written so far) your opposition seems to be
based on a sweeping ideological stance that does not seem to connect
to Freire as much as to his context. More beef would raise the
quality of our discussion, I think.
I do not consider myself a "believer" or a "disciple". I am
interested in understanding the issues better, and if you know
something I do not, I'd like to learn about that to be able to revise
my beliefs. So far you have not given me any material that I could
use for that.
(I apologize to those who are tired of Freire, but I try to use
descriptive subject headers so that it is easy to press delete!)
best, kh
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At 10:47 -0400 1.5.2004, Lubomir S. Popov wrote:
>Hi Victor,
>
>I appreciate both your post and your contributions to the field. You should
>have intervened earlier and more often.
>
>I deliberately raised the flag, not because the discourse was about the
>social nature of design, but because the discourse was going too much
>populist. Just for information, my research is in the area of the
>sociocultural aspects of design and I will be the last person on the list
>to curtail a good discussion on the social basis of design. I will actually
>welcome such discussions as long as they are not populist and do not dwell
>on street-wise thinking, emotions and ideological bias.
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