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=== Language Games === | === Language Games === | ||
== Discourse == | === Discourse and Narrative === | ||
== Database as Symbolic Form == | == Database as Symbolic Form == | ||
* Examples: | * Examples: | ||
Revision as of 15:01, 8 October 2007
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 and Narrative
Database as Symbolic Form
- Examples:
