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= Selby =
= Selby =
= Tobin and the HRAF =
= Tobin and the HRAF =
== The HRAF ==
* http://pulproxy.princeton.edu/connect
* Murdock's World Atlas
== What is a computer? ==
== What is a computer? ==
== Why the controversy? ==
== Why the controversy? ==

Revision as of 02:50, 23 September 2007

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Business

Recap

The transformational process

The canonical formula of myth

Who is communicating with whom?

Segue

  • Taking Levi-Strauss' references to the computer 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 and the HRAF

The HRAF

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

Observations