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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Vivere dove il lavoro ci costringe
Non potete vivere dove e come vorreste, bensì dove il lavoro vi costringe a stare, dunque spendete la vostra esistenza in un luogo che, se foste liberi, non prendereste in considerazione.
Non posti nuovi, ma occhi nuovi
«Per un vero viaggio di scoperta non occorrono posti nuovi, ma occhi nuovi», scriveva Marcel Proust. E credo avesse ragione. Chi fugge è invece convinto del contrario, e cioè che sta male dove sta per motivi esterni, ma che basti cambiare orizzonte premendo un tasto sul…
L'Italia è più bella lontano dal lavoro
L’Italia è tanto più bella quanto più ci si sposta da dove c’è lavoro. Nella gran parte del Paese si compra ancora bene, si vive bene, non ci si allontana troppo dagli affetti. Inoltre, la comunicazione oggi è molto semplice, lo sappiamo tutti. Non serve essere al centro di…
Durante (Andrea De Carlo)
Le autostrade cancellano il senso dei luoghi
“Ma le autostrade sono il nulla” ha detto lui. “Cancellano qualunque significato dei posti che attraversano.”
Iannotate — Whatever Happened To The Web As An Annotation System? | The Scholarly Kitchen
Personal versus social annotation
We need to distinguish personal annotation from social annotation. Much of Todd’s article seems to refer to the latter (note that this sentence refers to the entire article). Social annotation requires far more than placing anchors. The case I worked on was integrating public…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
What science does
Science can only deal with structure-determined systems, with composite entities, i.e. with systems whose structures determine what will happen. [In proposing a generative mechanism as an explanation for the phenomenon to be explained science always proposes a…
Language does not take place in the brain
Note that language does not take place in the brain but rather in the social dynamics. Languaging is a way of being together in a collective, it is a way of co-ontogenically drifting. [Without the brain there is no language, but language does not exist in the brain]
Autonomy of the system
Thus the Autonomy of the system is paramount. The system can only do what it does at any particular moment of doing. There are no other choices in the system. A system is always in its proper place and cannot be mistaken.
Influencing the drift vs controlling the outcome of the drift
This is not to say that we cannot alter the direction of the drift for example by what we do in languaging since this (languaging) defines conditions in which the drift takes place. If we language one way ("you're beautiful") the drift goes this way rather than that way ("you…
Look Down Go Down
The industrialisation of the digital humanities
What I fear most of all for us is not the cuts to funding, which holding to our purpose we can survive, but the loss of purpose through complicity in the industrialisation of the digital humanities. What I fear is that we find ourselves in Charlie Chaplin’s place in Modern…
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
Bacon distinguishing two modes of imposition: formal and tacit
Bacon intends to solve the resulting difficulties (which every causal theory of meaning based on the concepts of ‘reference setting’ and ‘reference borrowing’ has to face) by distinguishing two modes of imposition. This can be seen as his most inventive contribution to…
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
A circle without circumference
...the standpoint of place or topos (basho). This involves the attempts to articulate levels of differentiation and place them in more and more inclusive circles (to use one of Nishida's metaphors) until one reaches the most concrete and comprehensive circle, a circle without…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
The apartment looked wrong
The apartment looked wrong. Normally I loved its raffishness, but now both apartment and its contents looked seedy to the point of being sinister. Gazing around I thought, Christ, what a dump! How has my life come to this? Which wasn’t without a certain humor, since I was…
Judges Walk at sunset
Reputedly, these are all that remain of a once-fashionable eighteenth-century mall marking the northern boundary of the village. Beneath the trees, to your right, the ground drops steeply to a small oval meadow. The secret about Judges Walk is that it’s probably the best spot…
The Digital Humanities Situation | The Transducer
Digital humanities as a gentrifying small town
To many, the digital humanities feels like a small town that has recently been rated as a great place to raise a family. It is now inundated by developers who want to build condos for newcomers who are competing for resources and who may not understand local…
What Are The Differences Between A Vocabulary, A Taxonomy, A Thesaurus, An Ontology, And A Meta-model?
What a taxonomy is
A taxonomy is a collection of controlled vocabulary terms organized into a hierarchical structure. Each term in a taxonomy is in one or more parent-child relationships to other terms in the taxonomy. There may be different types of parent-child relationships in a taxonomy…