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What’s going on?
Willard McCartyReader in Humanities
ComputingKing’s College London
staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/
Countries, cultures,
communication: digital innovation
at ucla,10 May 2007
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“What’s going on?”
1. The question that won’t go away
2. Modeling & ‘the alternativeness of human possibility’
3. Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for
4. Disciplines & what’s happening in them
5. What is to be done
6. Bridge-building
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Erving Goffman (1922-1982)
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“What’s going on?” The question that won’t go away
Modeling & ‘the alternativeness of human possibility’
Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for
Disciplines & what’s happening in them
What is to be done
Bridge-buildingBrian struggling to prophesy in Monte Python, Life of Brian (1979)
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“What’s going on?” The question that won’t go away
Modeling & ‘the alternativeness of human possibility’
Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for
Disciplines & what’s happening in them
What is to be done
Bridge-building
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Figure 1, from Brian Cantwell Smith, “The Limits of Correctness” (1985): 21
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“Computing” is a participle!
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End-user
End-maker
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“What’s going on?” The question that won’t go away
Modeling & ‘the alternativeness of human possibility’
Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for
Disciplines & what’s happening in them
What is to be done
Bridge-building
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Struder model of St Gall Monastery, www.stgallplan.org
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“What’s going on?” The question that won’t go away
Modeling & ‘the alternativeness of human possibility’
Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for
Disciplines & what’s happening in them
What is to be done
Bridge-building
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“What’s going on?” The question that won’t go away
Modeling & ‘the alternativeness of human possibility’
Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for
Disciplines & what’s happening in them
What is to be done
Bridge-building
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“What’s going on?” The question that won’t go away
Modeling & ‘the alternativeness of human possibility’
Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for
Disciplines & what’s happening in them
What is to be done
Bridge-building
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Artificial vs natural (Paul Wegener, Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam, 1920)
Constructing resources
for (synthetic)
Modeling
VR reconstruction: Struder model, St Gall Project
Modeling for possible
worlds
Inventing new genres
Ivanhoe Game
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
The Visible Human at The Social, a punk, skin & rudie hangout, in Second Life
of (analytic)
Text and slides at http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/, 5 (2007).