ANTH245 2007-10-01: Difference between revisions
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* What is Coding? | * What is Coding? | ||
* The process of converting texts into codes | * The process of converting texts into codes | ||
** A kind of transduction | |||
** A kind of reductionism | |||
** informal → formal | |||
* A : B :: Text : Code :: Discourse : Ontology | * A : B :: Text : Code :: Discourse : Ontology | ||
* The reduction of A to B is structuralism | * The reduction of A to B is structuralism | ||
Revision as of 23:20, 2 October 2007
Business
- The Midterm is available on Blackboard
- Please send in your responses on time
Recap
- What is Coding?
- The process of converting texts into codes
- A kind of transduction
- A kind of reductionism
- informal → formal
- A : B :: Text : Code :: Discourse : Ontology
- The reduction of A to B is structuralism
Segue
- Structuralism = Cognitive Science
- Just as information culture represents text as code, it represents activity as plan
- Activity = ritual, work, practice = parole, event
Suchman 1983
- Two representations of work
- The problem of representation
Suchman 1988, part 1
- The planning model in AI
- Plans as reality
- But plans can't explain action
- Consciousness and unconsciousness
- Reversal
Suchman 1988, part 2
- Whiteboard as "cultural model" (Colby)
Forsythe 1993
- Knowledge engineering
- Representation of work
- Compare to coding
