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What does Soulwax’s website, DJing, & Construction Grammar have in common?
Soulwax’s website extends an invitation for viewers to participate in DJing as they explore the website. From my first exposure this has been an amazing experience. The intuitive guided navigation...
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Reflexivity and Recursion in Soulwax’s “Part of the Weekend Never Dies”
Since I am posting a lot about Soulwax this month, I thought I should include this clarifying snippet about the differences between the various acts which the Dewaele brothers lead. In “Part of the...
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Semiotics, Satellite Imagery, and Compound Stacks of Signs
I think that semiotics is a useful tool in understanding Geographic Information Systems (GIS); in particular, I think that Per Aage Brandt’s cognitive semiotic “table of signs” provides an interesting...
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An Emergentist vs. Universalist view of Language and Cognition
I wanted to present a list that outlines some of the main differences in thought about language between Emergentist and Universalist perspectives. This is important I think because it shows how only...
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Primitive Modals in Child Language (Hafta, Wanna, Gonna) As Functionally...
Modals represent a perspective of force in relation to the participatory elements of a construction. In fact, they represent an encoding of force in the relation between subject, verb, and object....
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On Failure & Resilience in Optimization of Human Systems, Ecological Systems,...
I was recently watching Eleanor Saitta’s talk called “Your Infrastructure Will Kill You“. Part of her talk outlined how optimization equals fragility (more or less). That to the degree that something...
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How Inception Helps Me Edit Papers
When I am writing a paper that has a page limit I use the first draft to make sure that I have a complete thought, I do not worry about exceeding the page limit. For the first round of editing I read...
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Why I Care About Ontology
In a broad sense of the term, any particular ontology serves as a framework against which we interpret information; think of it like an organized perspective that we use as a lens to view and...
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A Layered Approach to a Common Ground Reading
I just posted another paper on the Social Science Research Network, it is an analysis of a multi-layered communication situation using Herbert Clark’s notion of the Common Ground. Here is the...
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On walking and mediated embodied experience in ethnographic map making
Recently I’ve been thinking about my spatial experience of my contextual environment and about what I have learned over the years in consciously encountering space as a user of space, a creator of...
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