The distributed social organization of zombies On April 16, 2011, I delivered a presentation at The New School’s Critical Themes conference. I was one among three other presenters on the Not just another face in the cloud: Social networks and the new collectivity. It was a pleasure to visit New York and come into contact [...]
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Tagged: Criticalthemes2011, The New School, zombies
After receiving the comments from my committee, this past month has given me time to consider several issues surrounding my topic of knowledge production on Wikipedia. As I described in a previous post, I deciphered my own proposal and found that there were two different research questions being asked. I am partial to: What is [...]
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—René Descartes [1596–1660], mathematician that created Cartesian space Since I first began my thesis I have been sure that I would be involving Deleuze as a philosophical framework to help guide my work. It wasn’t always apparent how I would achieve this. I suppose some things take some time. While I was reading Christan Bök’s [...]
Tagged: Bök, delueze, nomad, pataphysics, royal science
Retracking Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible and The Suburbs as a single album I love Arcade Fire. My love for them has lasted a long time. Strangely enough, I haven’t been overly-excited about their second and third albums — The Suburbs of course having won the Grammy’s this year). I still think they are missing the [...]
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As I stated in my last post I have to consider which direction I am going to proceed in. Do I want to know how Wikipedia works or what is going on? Both questions are interesting to me. However, I think that analyzing what is going on between Wikipedia and its predecessors is the question [...]
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One of the comments that I received from my committee was that throughout the proposal I’ve posed too many unrelated questions. By reading different sections of my proposal I have seen that these questions seem to be pulling the research in different directions. In response to this issue I have sifted through my proposal and [...]
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Institutional challenges and concessions within a community of practice Supervisor Dr Pierre Lévy Committee Dr Boulou E. de B’béri Dr Phillipe Ross University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Abstract The goal of the proposed research is to explore the challenges and the concessions that a community of practice makes in negotiating its identity within an [...]
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Below is a list of words that I systematically constructed using Greek roots. Some of the words are real, some are not. atopia = the place without eutopia = the place of wellness extopia = the place of being out isotopia = the place of equality intopia = the place within idotopia = the place [...]
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Tagged: language
After years of using concept maps, I have a fondness for their ability to make connections to ideas that I normally would not consider. While researching for my thesis I came across Catgraph, a visualizer which outputs a network of either PNGs, PDFs, SVGs, etc of the supercategories, subcategories or articles from Wikipedia.