Eight friends ate and played together in the evening on Friday after Pumpkin Carving. All the chatting remains on the same theme: the meaning. The conversation began from Dalai Lama. I found that I almost know nothing about him except that he is a Chinese, got a Noble peace prize and there are several Tibetan…
The picture is from website Savage Chickens, by Doug Savage. Please complete the cartoon. Do you have any idea in your mind now? If I tell you it is a Halloween contest: complete this cartoon and you could win Savage Chickens Stuff, will your answer be different? Using to analyze this material, here are some…
I have a question about structuralism. Suppose you and I are part of the code. We understand the relationship between a signifier and a signified. Can we say that we share similar lifeworlds, horizons and assumptions?
So i’m reading a paper today by Chris Langton on the subject of Artificial Life (available online at http://www.aec.at/en/archiv_files/19931/E1993_025.pdf), in which he points out the fundamental differences between approaches to studying linear and non-linear systems. I would say that in researching Interaction Culture, we must more fully understand ourselves to be dealing with non-linear systems,…
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So I have expressed it here before, and Thursday’s discussion reminded me of it again. Language seems to structure our cognition. Can we ever have a thought that is not language based? If we did have such a thought could it have any meaning? What I’m saying here is that the unit of analysis of…
THIS GUY. And probably some of you too. I came across the following video, http://www.break.com/index/we-didnt-start-the-viral.html on Digg today. I’m kind of a Billy Joel fan so I decided to watch it. How many of those videos do you guys recognize? I knew a saddeningly high %. Anyway I posted that mainly because I thought a…
Phenomenology focus on sender’s intention, needs, wants and mechanisms by which they are able to express those in language. Diction – choice of words to express a meaning. Code (convention = mapping) – unspoken mechanism by which an expression is made sensible to a linguistic community. Genre – set of characteristics that define a type…
Today, UITS sent out a mass warning that the Adobe Acrobat reader had been compromised and advised that you not open any PDF files that you weren’t expecting. They then detailed the threat–you guessed it!–in a PDF attachment. Kudos to Tyler Pace for spotting this.
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