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N. Katherine Hayles |
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Departments of English and Design/Media Arts |
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University of California, Los Angeles |
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Thomas Riemann is a Copy |
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Metaphor of board room |
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His body is a metaphor |
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Discarding the Kantian a priori of time and
space |
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Interface transfers information from one medium
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Metaphor moves meaning from one word to another |
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Metaphor: ”A figure of speech in which a name or
descriptive term is transferred to some object different from but analogous
it that to which it is properly applicable.” |
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From a Latin root meaning to transfer, to bear
or carry |
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(Oxford
English Dictionary) |
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Material Metaphor is itself a metaphor
connecting the material to the verbal/semiotic |
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From Abstract to Concrete |
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Sorrow is a rock worn away by rain |
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From Embodied to Social |
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The boss is down on him |
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From Unknown to Familiar |
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An atom is a golf ball |
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From Familiar to Defamiliarized |
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Cauliflower ear |
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Artifacts have specific material properties |
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Properties create differentials when embedded
with verbal constructs |
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Traffic between physical properties and
metaphorical associations |
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Physical properties provide networks of
associations that can be mobilized for meaning transfer to verbal
constructs |
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Lubb Dup, Ann Tyler |
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The Weight of the Body, Michael Reed |
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Parallax, Karen Chance |
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A Maze of Daze, Susan E. King |
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Jonathan Schmitz |
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Scott Amedure and Donna Riley |
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Episode entitled “Secret Admirer” |
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Audience told the “secret”—Jonathan’s admirer is
Scott, not Donna |
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Research in Experimental Documents, Xerox PARC |
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Rich Gold, Maribeth Back, Anne Balsamo, Mark
Chow, Steve Harrison, Dale MacDonald, Scott Minneman |
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Images courtesy of D. Hovarth, Xerox PARC |
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Squeak |
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Derived from Smalltalk, first object-oriented
programming language |
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Goal is to create a language that is dynamic,
has behaviors, and whose smallest active unit is the letter |
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Each letter is an agent |
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it knows what letter precedes and follows |
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it can sense (position of surrounding letters) |
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it has properties |
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it can perform behaviors |
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Tangible Media Group |
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MIT Media Lab |
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Bill Seaman, UCLA
Hybrid Invention Generator |
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