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Olympiakos Questions 1 Mar 26 2008, 2:36 PM EDT by Olympiakos
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1.While Turner was mentioning “universal rhetorical loops” as well as networked learning systems, I immediately reminded myself a rather new “genre” of interdisciplinary scholarship. Last January, for example, some academics from diverse disciplines met to collectively study a show (fortieth annual Consumer Electronics Show which took place in Las Vegas) using a methodological style called “Swarm.” The concept behind “Swarm” was that events such as the CES could be studied by different scholars who, then, would combine their accounts toward a collective analysis. How much of those attempts are “the future,” and how much do they owe to the blending of cyberculture with counterculture would potentially suggest an interesting issue to pursue.

2. I would have to admit that I still tend to relate ethos with charisma. I wonder though how much of an “intellectual determinist” does this make me. I am not saying that if it weren’t for Brandt nothing of all this would have happened; rather I am expressing a concern on the circumstance that we crudely label as “the right man at the right time and the right place” (small wonder it is “man” and not “woman”.

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jcover Naming the Hacker 2 Mar 26 2008, 2:13 PM EDT by amyr6531
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Turner quotes Brand who states that "when computers become available to everybody, the hackers take over" (117). When Felsenstein says "Don't avoid the word Hackers, Don't let somebody else define you," I thought of Bulter's concept in Excitable Speech of naming and the injury that it does. To what extent does naming oneself as a hacker resignify the term?
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KaraLa Attempts to Legitimate Work 2 Mar 25 2008, 1:07 PM EDT by aspatriarca
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On pp. 112-114, Turner notes that early network visionaries at PARC and other computer laboratories saw the Whole Earth Catalog as a “legitimator of their own work” (112). Ideologically, is it wise to attempt to legitimate one’s own work so early on in the development process? Does this act result, necessarily, in positive or negative outcomes? Why? Is the attempt to legitimize one’s work a natural tendency among scientists and scholars? Can individuals escape this tendency?
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