ANTH245 2007-10-08

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Intro

Business

Recap

Segue

Themes

Informational 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

Commodification of Knowledge

Reconstitution of Knowledge

Discourse

Database as Symbolic Form

Narrative