news from the hyposphere. scholarly blogging in france
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News from the HyposphereScholarly Blogging in France
Aurélien Berra
Université Paris-Ouest& UMR 8210 ANHIMA
Weblogs in den Geisteswissenschaftenoder: Vom Entstehen einer neuen Forschungskultur
Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, 09.03.2012
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“Exploring the conversational dimension of this life of the mind”
It seems to me that someone who merely proclaims, thrashes his arms and […] dances sweatily before us online or via YouTube, however important his message to us, is still in the mode of communication as transmission, i.e. the Shannon-Weaver model applied to "how... men communicate, one with one another" (Weaver, Scientific American 181.1, July 1949). One-way, whether designed to wow, blow the mind, or just transmit facts. A very old fashioned thing, essentially.
One lesson that Jerome McGann taught me or confirmed has to do with the value and possible centrality of conversation to the life of the mind: not proclaiming what one thinks to be true but venturing thoughts, sometimes half-baked or less, in order to engage others in finding things out. Doing this -- really the evolved purpose of Humanist -- seems to me far more radical than performing before the video-camera. I see a future for a new kind of media intellectual who does that. Do you?
[…] But as far as doing more with what we have, exploring the conversational dimension of this life of the mind seems to me to be very promising indeed.
Comments?
Yours,WM
Willard McCarty, “Media-intellectual behaviour”, Humanist Discussion Group, 25, 758, 25.02.2012
Fifteen Types of Blogshttp://www.openedition.org/catalogue-notebooks?lang=fr (March 2012)
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