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Theories and Metphors of Cyberspace – Abstracts

Try https://web.archive.org/web/20050308075725/http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Cybspasy/WLogeman.html

“Possible theme of a paper could be the — Necessity and Metaphor. Contrary to popular belief ‘we can not think what we like’, words and metaphors have a power of their own”

I wrote that a long time ago… it was an abstract for something I am still writing.

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Saturday, 02 July 2022

I still like this quote – it linked me to many collaborations with Charles ‘Hipbone’ Cameron.

Contrary to popular belief ‘we can not think what we like’, words and metaphors have a power of their own.

I can think you might be an AI reading this.

But to think the floor of the Louvre is reading this…  ??

 

The Doc Searls Weblog : Easter Suday, March 31, 2002

What was all that about?

I was wondering if the web is still interesting, after reading about Cool Site of the Day boredom (see link below).

I searched Google on: “meaningful hidden sources” and picked the items of most interest to me. I can get engrossed in all of this and find it (synchronistically!) magical.

Magic has been quite word lately as I read “True Names”. But that is another story. Knowing the right word is to do magic. And that is what I’d say to Mr. Davies – what are you typing in your search engine?

Catholic Enc. on Albertus

“Like his contemporary, Roger Bacon (1214-94), Albert was an indefatigable student of nature, and applied himself energetically to the experimental sciences with such remarkable success that he has been accused of neglecting the sacred sciences (Henry of Ghent, De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis, II, x). Indeed, many legends have been circulated which attribute to him the power of a magician or sorcerer. Dr. Sighart (Albertus Magnus) examined these legends, and endeavoured to sift the truth from false or exaggerated stories. Other biographers content themselves with noting the fact that Albert’s proficiency in the physical sciences was the foundation on which the fables were constructed. The truth lies between the two extremes. Albert was assiduous in cultivating the natural sciences; he was an authority on physics, geography, astronomy, mineralogy, chemistry (alchimia), zoölogy, physiology, and even phrenology. On all these subjects his erudition was vast, and many of his observations are of permanent value. Humboldt pays a high tribute to his knowledge of physical geography (Cosmos, II, vi). Meyer writes (Gesch. der Botanik): “No botanist who lived before Albert can be compared with him, unless it be Theophrastus, with whom he was not acquainted; and after him none has painted nature in such living colours, or studied it so profoundly, until the time of Conrad, Gesner, and Cesalpini.”

Cool site man on NYT

“He started Cool Site in 1994, after discovering the thrill of happening upon an especially interesting Web site and telling his friends what he had found. Within a year, more than 20,000 people a day were visiting the site, and Mr. Davis became a Web celebrity, giving interviews to online magazines and fending off gifts from Webmasters who were desperately seeking his recommendation of their sites. ”

“Today, Mr. Davis has not only kicked his Web habit but also almost completely given up the medium. The Cool Site of the Day still exists, but it is no longer run by Mr. Davis, who has also lost his enthusiasm for trolling for new pages.”

Usenet post on psychodrama from 1996

I recall this discussion and found it again. Here is a nice post
from Dimitra Barnard-Martinez (earthsea@accent.net) – It is
amazing what is buried in the 20 years of usenet.

Virtuality Theorists

General Directories and Indexes of Sites.

And I am there with a Psybernet link – among some interesting resources. Check this out for psyber stuff.

Matthew Broersma doing an Eric Raymond interview.

Centralization doesn’t scale

“If you want to go to a really fundamental analysis, what we’re perpetually rediscovering on a scale of complexity is that centralization doesn’t work. Centralization doesn’t scale, and when you push any human endeavor to a certain threshold of complexity you rediscover that.”