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Digital Hermeneutics: Agora And The Online Understanding Of Cultural Heritage
Events give collection objects their meaning
The main building blocks in the interpretation process of history and collection objects are historical events and the relations between these events and the objects. A collection object on its own, has no meaning; by adding events to the object’s description we provide its…
Durante (Andrea De Carlo)
Eventi che si sviluppano in verticale
Pensavo che alcuni eventi hanno uno sviluppo verticale, più che orizzontale: gesto sopra gesto sopra gesto e percezione sopra percezione sopra percezione, compressi nello spazio di un istante. Per capirli e dargli un ordine dobbiamo scomporre la sovrapposizione e disporre ogni…
Hamlet On The Holodeck
First hypertext systems: afternoon
The literary publisher Eastgate Systems distinguishes its products from both pornographics "web soaps" and games by calling them "serious hypertext". The pioneering work in this genre is Michael Joyce's Afternoon (1987), written in the Storyspace hypertext system, which he code…
How Books Will Become Machines
Nature of the book
One of the most obvious differences between books and maps is that books are representations of an higher dimension. A book is a container, a volume of dimension 3, capable of hosting one-dimensional text and bi-dimensional maps, tables, diagrams and trees. As a volume, a book…
Interactive Fiction - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
What counts as interactive fiction
Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives and as video games.[1] In common usage, the…
Jesus Myth Theory
Myth
Remsburg then went further using David Strauss and John Fiske to explain that there were three kinds of myths: Historical, Philosophical, and Poetical. A Historical myth is "a real event colored by the light of antiquity, which confounded the human and divine, the natural and…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
The story that keeps us together
Sense of self over time is therefore ‘the story that we tell ourselves that keeps us together.’
The rejection of meta-narratives
Postmodernism rejected all that. The world has no real essence that is just waiting for us to describe. Reality is constituted by our understanding of it. History is created by the stories we tell about the past, and there are innumerable different such stories we can tell…
Postmodernists as intellectual dipsomaniacs
However, with this comes the promise of a liberation. If the self is constructed, then may we now take over the task of construction for ourselves? We can create ourselves, become the authors of our identities, writing as many of them as we want, not limiting ourselves to a…
No fixed essence does not mean infinite narratives
it is true that the self has no fixed essence, that it is in part a construction and that the autobiographical narratives we tell ourselves invent an order and cohesion that real lives lack. But it is not good enough to revel in this in a kind of Dionysian frenzy. You have to…
Episodics and diachronics
Strawson is perhaps best known for his articulation of one such axis of variability in persons, between short- and long-termers, or what he calls episodics and diachronics. ‘Here what I think you find is that people fall along a spectrum,’ he told me. ‘At one end of the…
No narrative sense of self
He has a sense of his self, but he doesn’t identify this with this persisting human animal. He’s relatively indifferent to its past and future, and this is temperamental, it’s not philosophical. ‘I found these things in my diaries saying things like “I have no narrative sense…