Greetings Sarkar
I love your being "bound with saucy fears and doubts" - a worthy reflexive
pause on our streaming communications. I am unclear about a couple of the
terms you use - can you inform me?

What do you mean by "values  are  sui-generes" - and what does "autoletic"
mean? I have searched for their meanings and cannot find them...

I read your text as recognising the value of this dialogue while remaining
sceptical about the apparent ease of it - a kind of cautionary note that
things are  much harder than we make them out to be.

I would value a tougher edge too if we could do so without indulging in
cynicism and defeat - which I don't think you are doing at all. I understand
that what we are doing is enjoying a rare opportunity to express ourselves
without constraint, to envision, articulate, hear ourselves think with each
other if you like. I still see this as a community building process akin to
your ideas of capacity building as an act of social transformation rather
than capacity building for social transformation...

Like you I think, I sense that electronic forms of community can be deeper
and more superficial in their manifestations than those forms of community
that are bound to geography, or institution - but then each form of
community has its integrity and its weakening liabilities..

Do we want to develop this community as a kind of fermenter of ideas that we
take elsewhere, or (and) are we creating these relationships, languages,
trusts for this community, to make this network of people strong within our
own terms, as a living community with its own psychologies and cultures?

Is this a stage in development, or are we resting here for good? Are we
interested in breaking out of our conventions, as we are creating them here,
to open up our boundaries so that we can more dynamically flow (as water, to
refer to Alan R's writings) beyond our network edges? For me some of these
answers would be felt through the works themselves - which would lead us on
to new fields and people, as well as the "resources" that we have - not
spreading ourselves too thinly, not drowning in our own "narcissistic"
depths! (Who are you calling narcissistic!!!! NO-one, promise, but always a
corner for me at least!).

At this point in time I am enjoying the beginnings of interactions with
individuals outside the common ground of the BET network. Here is a new
organic growth of our network - which will doubtless lead into new terrains
of knowing and becoming, while feeding back with energy, insights, depths
and risks to the commons.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts and better understanding your
meanings...
Susie

On 12/11/06 11:38 PM, "B.N. Sarkar" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> JACK WHITEHEAD,                                      11/11/06
> DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION,
> UNIVERSITY OF BATH,UK.
> SUBJECT: RE:WHAT KIND OF LIFEWORLD ARE WE .....
> SIR,
> 
> HERE I HAVE  SOMETHING TO  PONDER ABOUT: I WOULD APPEAL TO ALL  SCHOLARS
> TO  READ  THIS ESSAY WITHOUT BIAS, SINCE WHATEVER  I HAVE
> WRITTEN  HAS A  HIDDEN  CONCERN  AND  THE ACCEPTANCE OF SUCH REFLECTIONS
> MUST BE 'AGREEABLE TO TRUTH'.
> I HAD INTIATED THE IDEA  OF  'BEING  AND BECOMING' AND I FOUND IT BEING
> TAKEN  INTO ACCOUNT  FROM POINT OF VIEW OF LANGUAGE.....
> I EXPECTED YOUR COMMENTS WITH REGARD TO  ETHICAL  CONSIDERATION
> WHEN  WE  REASON, REACT  AND RESPOND AS I REFERRED IN  MY LAST MAIL ABOUT
> THE IDEA OF RE-CONSTRUCTION AND FURTHER I HAD EXPECTED A  RESPONSE ON
> THINKING AND RECREATING MECHANISMS THAT ARE BLURED WHILE WE ARE AGITATED.
> 'LIFE-WORLD' DEMANDS ATTENTION AS OUR KNOWLEDGE BECOMES A CRUCIAL ELEMENT
> WHILE WE HAVE A  SAY IN HOW WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE OUR  WORLD PUT TOGETHER
> AND RUN.
> WHAT ABOUT CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME WHILE WE  ARE  CONCERNED ABOUT THE
> ART OF OUR LIVING WHILE WE ARE UNDERGOING SOCIO-POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION?
> HERE I HAVE ATTACHED THE ESSAY ALONG WITH A NOTE AT THE END RELATED
> TO 'COMMON GOOD': REF- FRIDAY, 03/11/06 - JACK WHITEHEAD FOR  YOUR
> OBSERVATION PLEASE.
> I WOULD LIKE THIS  TO BE SEEN THROUGH ALONG WITH  THE  ESSAY AND CIRCULATED
> POSSIBLY IN [log in to unmask], PLEASE.
> IT IS AGAIN AN WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED FROM YOUR END; I REMAIN ONCE
> AGAIN GRATEFUL TO YOU  AND OTHER SCHOLARS.
> THANKS.
> WARM REGARDS,
> B.N. SARKAR
> JAMMU, INDIA