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** Connecting Will and Society -- I call this "psycho-social" mapping | ** Connecting Will and Society -- I call this "psycho-social" mapping | ||
** Where anthropology likes to hang out | ** Where anthropology likes to hang out | ||
* Will: Essential vs. Arbitrary | * Will: Essential vs. Arbitrary | ||
** Precisely analogous to Bateson's Purposive Mind and and the Unconscious (which is closer to Great Mind) | ** Precisely analogous to Bateson's Purposive Mind and and the Unconscious (which is closer to Great Mind) | ||
** Also, arbitrary will = planning mentality (it is goal oriented) | ** Also, arbitrary will = planning mentality (it is goal oriented) | ||
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* | == Characteristics of each == | ||
=== Community === | |||
* Order based on consensus of wills | |||
** Mutually calibrated by ritual, gossip, etc. | |||
* Developed and "ennobled" by folkways, mores, and religion | |||
=== Society === | |||
* Order based upon a union of rational wills | |||
** Rests on convention and agreement, is safeguarded by political legislation | |||
* Ideological justification in public opinion | |||
== Remarks == | |||
* Society, privacy and trade | |||
== Questions == | |||
* Does the internet help us connect with Greater Mind? | |||
* Is it more "situated"? | |||
* In which is privacy as value? | |||
= Salam Pax = | = Salam Pax = | ||
Revision as of 02:34, 29 October 2007
Do Virtual Communities Exist?
Business
Recap
Databasification
- Impact of symbolic forms on how people are represented
- The old cliché of being a number
- But also a self as pattern
Institutions
- Corporations
- Governments
Ideologies
- Communicative transparency
- Privacy
- Bodies vs. People
Aside: on Ethical Premises
Segue
- Today we consider the phenomenon of blogging -- a catch-all phrase -- and community
- What ideologies?
- A counter-institution?
Intro
The WELL
- The WELL
- Rheingold, The Virtual Community
- Wired, "The Epic Saga of The Well"
- Pre-web, i.e. Telnet and Gopher.
- Mainly forums and bulletin boards (BBSs) and a community of self-selected internet users.
- One can argue that the sense of community pre-existed the WELL.
YouTube
MySpace
- EMO
- What is the connection between Emo and MySpace?
Daily Kos
- The Blog
- Video of conference
- Lieberman
Are these communities?
Imagined Communities
- See Anderson1997
Community and Imagination
- Anderson's argument
- Applies to all forms of social organization
- Role of ritual is to create this consciousness
Imagination and Symbolic Form
- Newspapers
- The Novel
- Language
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Also: folklore, etc.
Community and Society
- Tonnies, 1887, Community and Society (excerpts)
- Two Kinds of social organization based on two kinds of "will"
- Community and Society, or Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
- Connecting Will and Society -- I call this "psycho-social" mapping
- Where anthropology likes to hang out
- Will: Essential vs. Arbitrary
- Precisely analogous to Bateson's Purposive Mind and and the Unconscious (which is closer to Great Mind)
- Also, arbitrary will = planning mentality (it is goal oriented)
Characteristics of each
Community
- Order based on consensus of wills
- Mutually calibrated by ritual, gossip, etc.
- Developed and "ennobled" by folkways, mores, and religion
Society
- Order based upon a union of rational wills
- Rests on convention and agreement, is safeguarded by political legislation
- Ideological justification in public opinion
Remarks
- Society, privacy and trade
Questions
- Does the internet help us connect with Greater Mind?
- Is it more "situated"?
- In which is privacy as value?
