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Dear Luiz,<br>
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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" <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://home16.inet.tele.dk/jesper_t/mt_sosy.pdf">http://home16.inet.tele.dk/jesper_t/mt_sosy.pdf</a><br>
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Luiz Carlos Baptista wrote:<br>
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<p><font face="Arial">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
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<p><font face="Arial">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
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<p><font face="Arial">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)
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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 <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">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
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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. <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">I hope this stuff makes sense to you. Anyway, it's
still in an earlier phase, open to comments, criticisms and developments.
Best regards, <br>
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