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Latest revision as of 15:26, 8 October 2007
Intro
Business
- November 5th meeting will be cancelled
- See Blackboard for the updated syllabus
Recap
- Suchman, Forsythe and the critique of information
- Specifically, the epistemology of information scientists as well as managers
- Claims:
- Knowledge as plans
- Knowledge as value-free
- Knowledge as non-social
Segue
- Today, we expand our context and examine the global, political economic context
- We do what anthropologists do best:
- Comparing the formal to the informal
- Cultural forms and social institutions
- The Three Is: INFRASTRUCTURE, IDEOLOGY, and INSTITUTIONS
Lyotard
Knowledge
Connection to Representation
- Materiality
- Ritual -> Orality -> Literacy ...
Reconstitution of Knowledge
Exteriorization of Knowledge
Commodification of Knowledge
Communicational Transparency
- See Shannon's model
- "Information wants to be free"
- Social problems reducible to "noise"
- Missing context --> See Bateson's misreading of Shannon
- Government gets in the way
Political Economy
Globalization
Investment
Piracy
Legitimacy
Resistance
Language Games and an Agonistics of Language
- Compare to Suchman; rules : plans :: games : situated action
Discourse and Narrative
Manovich
Database as Symbolic Form
- Examples:
