“There are many definitions of the word Praxis that get kicked around in Marxist circles and most of them are meaningless. Often enough the word is used to signify a half baked notion of a synthesis between theory and practice, touted as a solution for the problem of sterile or academic philosophy. The idea is that people put “theory” on a pedestal when really, as Marx argued, the aim shouldn’t be to merely interpret the world, but to change it. Praxis then is the realization of this necessity, it’s a word that is often spoken with the aim of elevating practice, a word deployed meant to bring the merely practical to the level of theory, when the true insight contained in the word is how utterly entwined theory and practice are from the start. Michael Steinberg is the author of Enlightenment Interrupted and Chris Vitale is the author of Networkologies.”

I think we need to get over the desire to get ideas right and shift our perspectives a bit to begin experimenting with what do differing ways of assembling/framing things afford us and what do they make unhandy and or obscured in differing settings. 

if you haven’t yet check out the zero-squared podcast @ http://douglaslain.net/zero-squared-special-left-forum-panel-on-praxis/