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== Knowledge | == Knowledge == | ||
=== Connection to Representation === | |||
* Materiality | |||
* Ritual -> Orality -> Literacy ... | |||
=== Exteriorization of Knowledge === | === Exteriorization of Knowledge === | ||
=== Commodification of Knowledge === | === Commodification of Knowledge === | ||
Revision as of 15:02, 8 October 2007
Intro
Business
- November 5th meeting will be cancelled
- See Blackboard for the updated syllabus
Recap
Segue
Themes
Knowledge
Connection to Representation
- Materiality
- Ritual -> Orality -> Literacy ...
Exteriorization of Knowledge
Commodification of Knowledge
Reconstitution 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
Legitimacy
Resistance
Language Games
Discourse and Narrative
Database as Symbolic Form
- Examples:
