Re: tacit knowing
Jay Lemke (JLLBC who-is-at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU)
Sun, 05 May 96 21:55:57 EDT
Dale Cyphert's motorized picnic table meaning-event sounds
very interesting. It certainly ought to have connections to
the theme of meaning-and-physicality, or as I am now trying
to think of it, the materiality of semiosis implying that
a lot of meaning, and meaning-making, in activity must be
of the non-categorical, and so 'topological' variety, about
which our present semiotic theories have too little to say.
The spatial, the visual, the motor-movement dimensions are
useful beginnings; so are the paralinguistic and 'acoustic'
aspects of speech, the kinetics not captured by kinesics,
and the continuously variable or mensurable/quantifiable
aspects of human interactivity. I have a paper on this
from a conference in Denmark last year, that I am going to
revise for a volume in one form and a journal in another.
Anyone who wants to wade through a rather long and unfinished
draft that also deals with some other topics (ecosocial
systems, Niels Bohrs complementarity principle, epistemology
and semiotics) is welcome to request my "Odense" paper, by
email only (about 90kbytes). JAY.
JAY LEMKE.
City University of New York.
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