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=== Legitimacy ===
=== Legitimacy ===


== Language Games ==
== Resistance ==
=== Language Games ===
 
== Discourse ==
== Discourse ==
== Database as Symbolic Form ==
== Database as Symbolic Form ==

Revision as of 15:00, 8 October 2007

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Intro

Business

  • November 5th meeting will be cancelled
  • See Blackboard for the updated syllabus

Recap

Segue

Themes

Knowledge and Representation

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

Database as Symbolic Form

Narrative

Algorithm

Film

Google