I’m assigning the term “Archetypal Semiotic Transference” (AST) to describe instances of semiosis where a symbol (or set of symbols) and its interpretation(s) in one disciplinary knowledge domain appears directly (and perhaps coincidently?) similar to a symbol (or set of symbols) and its interpretation(s) within an entirely different disciplinary knowledge domain. By similarity, I mean similar in both [...]
FaceBook.com has become the most-trafficked social network in the world–surpassing MySpace in unique users, competing with Google search for total page views, and recently surpassed 100,000,000 simultaneous users. Accordingly, we can consider FaceBook the core representation of the dynamic social web, and a significant arena for in-formulating (bringing “form” into) the collective body and mind. Here are a few interesting elements [...]
Words themselves are becoming antiquated. Rarely enough do we even find an arrangement as worthy as these: Today, Homo sapiens is faced with a rapid modification of his environment, a transformation for which he is the involuntary collective agent. I am not implying that our species is threatened with extinction or that the “end of the [...]
With new technology comes new possibilities to execute technique. If we look to the trend of advents in internet protocols, we see how particular innovations in the information technology domain resulted in tremendous transformative effects in social, economic, and political arenas. The TCP/IP protocol allowed for the identification of independent computers, and for the transfer [...]
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