Two thoughts on e-life
Jorn Barger
and mailinglists are unprecedented and will surely change the nature
of argument, over the next century (if we survive that long).
The closest things would be published transcripts of (eg)
parliamentary debates, or ongoing battles in letters-columns, but
the lagtimes there are weeks instead of minutes.
The traditional devices of rhetoric assumed (I think) a 'broadcast'
forum where arguments were presented oratorically... but in
e-debate this advantage dwindles to nothing-- every rhetorical
appeal can easily be deflated immediately.
2) The netnews archives at groups.google.com offer 10-20 years
of history, within which must dwell some very colorful
characters, posting up an indiscreet storm and consequently
laying bare a rich-but-highly-fragmented autobiography.
I've started experimenting with reassembling these-- eg:
http://www.robotwisdom.com/ai/mckinstry.html --but I'm held
back somewhat by the potentially massive invasion-of-privacy,
even though every posting is implicitly public.
One of the required techniques is to inventory all their email
identities, which remarkably often seems to turn up half-assed
attempts to spoof or conceal identities, which can then open
up new realms, of a person's hidden lives...
DeRayMi
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> One of the required techniques is to inventory all their email
> identities, which remarkably often seems to turn up half-assed
> attempts to spoof or conceal identities,
OTM.
> which can then open
> up new realms, of a person's hidden lives...
I'm glad you don't work for Homeland Security.
tejas
"Jorn Barger" <jo...@enteract.com> wrote in message
> One of the required techniques is to inventory all their email
> identities, which remarkably often seems to turn up half-assed
> attempts to spoof or conceal identities, which can then open
> up new realms, of a person's hidden lives...
So what. One could call most non-hidden lives to be half-assed.
ObConcept: Occam's Razor meets the Procrustean Bed.
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Ted Samsel
tbsa...@infi.net
http://home.infi.net/~tbsamsel
ian glendinning
> ObConcept: Occam's Razor meets the Procrustean Bed.
>
Occam's Razor (basic simplification aim of the dialectic logic of
so-called "scientific method") is one of my research targets.
Ian Glendinning
www.psybertron.org
Elisabeth Riba
> 1) the persistent (and instantaneous) archives of *debate* in netnews
> and mailinglists are unprecedented and will surely change the nature
> of argument, over the next century (if we survive that long).
> The closest things would be published transcripts of (eg)
> parliamentary debates, or ongoing battles in letters-columns, but
> the lagtimes there are weeks instead of minutes.
> The traditional devices of rhetoric assumed (I think) a 'broadcast'
> forum where arguments were presented oratorically... but in
> e-debate this advantage dwindles to nothing-- every rhetorical
> appeal can easily be deflated immediately.
For several centuries (Elizabethan England thru Colonial America, at
least) there were often debates/arguments conducted through
pamphleteering, which were written back-and-forths for public
distribution, and not oratorical.
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