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Anyone else gone down the Soviet Psychology/Activity Theory rabbit hole? Jesus christ
https://www.activityanalysis.net/aat/ completely schizophrenic/nonsensical
like looking at Lacan's diagrams but also useless
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?
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.
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.
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.
Deng is one of these interdisciplinarity studies grifters AAAAAH makes sense now.
He makes so many diagrams, i feel like I'm in an HR office