David Rose Positively Judging Jim Martin's Empire Building

David Rose wrote to SYSFLING on 29 Sep 2020 at 17:39:

I know I should let Jim have the last word, but for the meaning of 'onwards; together’ we only need to read the Reference pages of his publications… everybody’s included, for or agin… how you a build a community that will last and grow into the future.

Blogger Comments:

Appraised	Appraisal
	Polarity	Attitude
Jim Martin building his own community	positive	judgement: propriety

Again, this is a model of academic institutions as social insect colonies, which, according to Halliday, are organised on the basis of value, not semiosis. What matters is the social group, not the quality of theorising it produces.

Postscript:

Martin subsequently put the lie to Rose's claim of Martin's inclusiveness when he decided, on October 19, to exclude the 840 world-wide members of the Sys-func list from weekly seminar announcements:

Hi all This is the final announcement I will make on sys-func. In future I’ll be using the new ASFLA mailing list – ASFLAnet. You’ll need to subscribe to receive further announcements.