ANTH245 2007-10-08
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Intro
Business
- November 5th meeting will be cancelled
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
Exteriorization of Knowledge
Commodification of Knowledge
Reconstitution of Knowledge
Globalization
Language Games
Discourse
Database as Symbolic Form
- Examples: