Wiki profile

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Observation, structure and autonomy

From “Academic Resources : Autopoiesis“: “Systems are structure determined. That is, anything a system does at any moment in time […]

Counterculture and Cyberculture

Fred Turner started his talk with “In 64, computer is symbol of repression. Today, computer is the symbol of liberation.” […]

The Long Tail

Mary shared an old article on Wired (by Chris Anderson) last year. You enjoyed reading it.

隐喻无处不在

Lakoff的书是八零年发表的,影响仍然在扩展之中。隐喻不仅仅是在语言中,在思维和行为中也是无处不在。因为通讯是基于思维和行为的同一套概念系统,所以考察语言的使用,会得到关于观念系统细节和特征的知识。

The locus of truth on the Web?

From Berkman Center news: “Wikipedia.org — the grassroots encyclopedia — has frozen edits to the page about George W. Bush […]

Wiki as collaboration tool

From Globeandmail technology section: “Wiki technology, invented by Oregon programmer Ward Cunningham, is server software that allows users to quickly […]

无脸之凝视

关于Michael Ondaatje,倾听另一位读者,也是阅读的重要部分。 「大衛王年紀老邁,雖然晚上睡覺時把棉被蓋得很緊,但還是感到寒冷。臣僕們建議,不如給我主我王尋找一位處女,伺候王,奉養王,睡在王的懷抱中,好讓我主我王得到溫暖。這位童貞女潔白美貌,悉心陪伴王,但是王卻從來沒有與她親近」。 冒險的背叛對應於安謐的聆聽,帝國的燒掠對應於廢墟的溫情,感官的放縱對應於垂死前的悔悟,無限綿延的空間對應於深藏內斂的心體……。