[Air-l] research - writing, printing, computing

[jespert]

Dear Luiz,

Yes it seems very interesting, do you have a reference to where Chomsky 
writes about logotechnics? Well it looks like you have almost the same 
interest as I have. But I am using systems theory (Luhmann) and the 
media theory (Innis, McLuhan, Ong, Eisenstein, Meyrowitz and Finnemann) 
in a theory of social systems and media theory - I differentiates 
between perception media, media of reproduction and technological media 
for communication (from oral language to digital media). In my theory of 
the social evolution I see the technologically media for communication 
as the variant giving the scope for the handling of complexity in time 
and space. Look at my paper: "Medium Theory and Social Systems" 
http://home16.inet.tele.dk/jesper_t/mt_sosy.pdf


Luiz Carlos Baptista wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm new on the list. I have recently finished my PhD in Communications 
> at Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal. My PhD is about Erving 
> Goffman's concept of "frame" and its relations to cognition and the 
> formal features of human interaction. Parts of my research have been 
> summarized in an article, "Framing and Cognition", in the book 
> "Goffman's Legacy", published in the US by Rowman & Littlefield.
>
> At the moment, my research interests include what I call 
> "logotechnics" or "linguistic technologies": the development of 
> systems which reproduce what, according to Noam Chomsky, is the most 
> important characteristic of human language, its "discrete infinity" 
> (the production of an infinite number of structures by the recursive 
> combination of a finite number of elements).
>
> Each "logotechnique" could be understood as a set of procedures for 
> developing specific kinds of "cognitive artifacts". Writing would be 
> the fundamental "logotechnique", giving rise to printing (its 
> mechanization) and computing (its automatization).
>
There are many working with social epochs connected to communication 
media or with historical societies based on different media matrixs fx 
McLuhan, Meyrowitz and Finnemann 

> I believe a proper understanding of the latter must take into account 
> the effects of the former. For instance, as regards the Internet and 
> the spread of digital media, the so-called "digital revolution" is, in 
> a sense, the process of "generalization of writing" - since, for the 
> first time, almost every form of human representation can be 
> "translated" to digital form through programs written, in the last 
> instance, in binary code.
>
This is exactly what Finnemann says in: Finnemann, Niels Ole 1997. 
Modernity Modernised - The Cultural Impact of Computeriation. In Mayer. 
Paul A. 1999. Computer Media and Communication. Oxford uni. Press GB 
p.141-160.

> I hope this stuff makes sense to you. Anyway, it's still in an earlier 
> phase, open to comments, criticisms and developments. Best regards,
>
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>
>
Best Regards

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