subject-object

From: Bill Barowy (wbarowy@lesley.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2000 - 05:18:53 PDT


Just a quick note, Alfred, regarding a more symmetrical arrangement
of subject and object -- the mailinglist computer-model moves in this
direction, exploring the consequences of emails as consumers, and
exploring the materiality of the production of these 'psychological'
tools. The paper needs work to reframe it, describing the model
more clearly in terms of semiotic function circles with mathematical
ecological relations at the collective level, and bridging to
Mandelbrots prior calculations and writing that link effort and
fractal forms (his calculation of ziph's law for the frequency of
characters appearing in the english language). Not objective, this
computer model, but highly object-oriented in technical and
psychological senses.

On to Leont'ev

bb

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