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The computer is a metamedium

Posted in 3348, 3347, 3346, 3349, 3350, 3353, 3352, 3351, 3345, 3344, a, an, the, 2922, 3316, 3343, 3342, General on Feb 19th, 2008 Comments Off

So write Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg.
Corollaries:
An introduction to New Media Studies is a metacourse.
The third pitch we throw had better be a metapitch.
The metalevel is the most generative level, the most frustratingly inexact level, the most emergent level, the level where experts and beginners can have interesting meetings. It can be a wide-eyed level, […]

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Assembly, Breakdown, Restructuring

Posted in 2928, 2927, 2926, 2929, 2930, 2932, 2931, 2925, 2924, real, authentic, the, and, 2923, 2922, General on Jan 9th, 2008 Comments Off

I’m no professional philosopher, still less a mathematician, but I understand just enough of Alex Ryan’s paper to see a little ways into the depth of this definition:
“Emergence is the process whereby the assembly, breakdown or restructuring of a system results in one or more novel emergent properties.”
Assembly, breakdown, restructuring: it seems to me that […]

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