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== Resistance ==
== Resistance ==
=== Language Games ===
=== Language Games and an Agonistics of Language ===
* Compare to Suchman; rules : plans :: games : situated action
* Compare to Suchman; rules : plans :: games : situated action



Revision as of 15:15, 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

Connection to Representation

  • Materiality
  • Ritual -> Orality -> Literacy ...

Reconstitution of Knowledge

Exteriorization of Knowledge

Commodification 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

Investment

Piracy

Legitimacy

Resistance

Language Games and an Agonistics of Language

  • Compare to Suchman; rules : plans :: games : situated action

Discourse and Narrative

Database as Symbolic Form

Narrative

Algorithm

Film

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