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1 month ago

Anyone else gone down the Soviet Psychology/Activity Theory rabbit hole? Jesus christ

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1 month ago

Deng is one of these interdisciplinarity studies grifters AAAAAH makes sense now.

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1 month ago

He makes so many diagrams, i feel like I'm in an HR office

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1 month ago

https://www.activityanalysis.net/aat/ completely schizophrenic/nonsensical

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1 month ago

like looking at Lacan's diagrams but also useless

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1 month ago

No, but I'd imagine it's pretty out there. I could see some of it may have even laid the groundwork for modern day society. What have you stumbled across with it?

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1 month ago

Well... I found an interesting chain of modern individuals... Look into Andy Blunden, secretary of the Marxists.org archive. He uses Marx, Hegel, and Soviet psychologist Vygotsky to create an interdisciplinary social science. https://brill.com/display/title/19788?rskey=pZYvtq&result=3 I am still trying to discern whether Oliver Deng is a complete stooge or not. He seems to be trying to commercialize the insights of Blunden. Deng states that he has written books on applied Activity Theory using Blunden's theories but what he really means by "books" is that he could theoretically create "books" by combining all of the articles he has written.... fucking weird.

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1 month ago

https://medium.com/the-art-of-bagging/meet-with-oliver-ding-1-mission-4-theories-and-12-possible-books-67a257e59391 Maybe things from him are just poorly translated??? But he tries to apply Activity Theory to creating projects.

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1 month ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural-historical_activity_theory#Human%E2%80%93computer_interaction_(HCI)

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1 month ago

I believe Deng is a grifter. He hasn't actually written any books and his work history is dubiously non-rigorous. I think he is the equivalent of an outsider-artist in philosophy/sociology/psychology.