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* Coding methods
* Coding methods
* Cultural Grammars
* Cultural Grammars
== Comparisons ==
* L-S
* Rappaport
* Bateson


= Selby =
= Selby =

Revision as of 18:12, 20 September 2007

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Business

Recap

  • The transformational process
  • The canonical formula of myth

Segue

  • Taking Levi-Strauss seriously
  • Databases as representative of structure

Colby

  • General Inquirer System
  • The IBM 7090
    • 32K addressable memory / $3M (in 1960s dollars!)
    • See also this and this.
  • Coding methods
  • Cultural Grammars

Comparisons

  • L-S
  • Rappaport
  • Bateson

Selby

Tobin

What is a computer?

Why the controversy?

  • The status of "codes"
  • Violence to texts

Themes

Text and Code

Heuristic vs Objectivist

Cybernetics of Interpretation

The Function and Image of the Database

Ontology vs. Discourse

HRAF

Observations

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