by Yohei. Negative Capability: Unread Cultural Commons and Small Talk you can read the other things we’ve had to say about the cultural commons here, if you like. To complicate Cultural Commons further, there is the concept of reverse vicariousness. Half of the ‘commoners’ haven’t done their homework: “Nonreaders can positively register at social gatherings [...]
I’ve noticed that when I’m talking with someone it seems like they need to say what they are saying in a few different ways before I get close to understanding them. It’s as though we all speak different languages. With each new detail my interlocutor adds, each metaphor and similie they use to describe this [...]
This is a little old draft that’s been kicking around; just some thoughts about knowledge, communication, culture and the brain. It makes me think: I don’t know nearly enough about neuropsychology. I think the ‘cultural commons’ is a generalization about the entire network of knowledge that’s ever been exchanged. I heard once that it’s easier [...]
did you miss part 1? Linus wasn’t an intentional revolutionary or anything like that, but his understanding of the different kind of success that might be possible with a committed effort of collaborative devlopment built something new. In this viral, communicative way I think Hiphop and Open Source share a politics. At the core of [...]
- OpenJournaL: just 1 year old. – founded with the intention of opening up knowledge construction in the MA in Media at Concordia. -because of the response to the ideas and to the hybrid perspective it became an ongoing project, as well as a practical experiment with the open source theories of communication and organization [...]
Below are a few quotes about the Gaza pullout, and then a draft of an attempt to put into words how terrorism is an ineffective tactic for interaction in the long term. All this is, really, is a difficult exploration of an impossibly difficult situation, and some thoughts about communication… Abbas: “The credit for the [...]
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