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Re: [xmca] latour

From: Kevin Rocap <Kevin.Rocap who-is-at liu.edu>
Date: Sat Mar 08 2008 - 11:21:54 PST

Dear Luiz, et al,

The problem, Luiz, may be when the long URL word-wraps in your e-mails
so that the link that is "live" is truncated from what it should be.
Below I provide the link again and a Tiny URL version of the link, that
shouldn't cause a word-wrap issue.

Original Link:

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/English/theory/narratology/modules/greimasplotmainframe.html

Tiny URL version:

*http://tinyurl.com/2lwepp*

In Peace,
K.

Mike Cole wrote:
> The link worked for me luiz. Try changing browsers.
> mike
>
> On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Luiz Carlos Baptista <
> lucabaptista@fcsh.unl.pt> wrote:
>
>
>> Dear Martin,
>>
>> This is very interesting, I'll have to think about it. In fact one of my
>> main interests regarding games is their ontological, or if you want,
>> metaphysical, import (besides issues of Simmelian sociability, etc.).
>>
>> Thank you very much for the link, but I keep receiving an error message,
>> don't know why.
>>
>> Best,
>> Luiz
>>
>> **********
>> "The brain is a wonderful thing. Everybody should have one."
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
>> Behalf Of Martin Packer
>> Sent: sábado, 8 de Março de 2008 18:51
>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>> Subject: Re: [xmca] latour
>>
>> Dear Luiz,
>>
>> In games we can alter the course
>>
>>> of events, in fact we are required to do so (our freedom to do it of
>>>
>> course
>>
>>> varies greatly, depending on the game's design).
>>>
>> So in each game the player is a particular *kind* of agent (actant in
>> Greimas' terms), with specific kinds of powers and characteristics. And
>> these can transform during the game, right? So there are ontological
>> changes. (Greimas is famous for his diagram of the structural
>> relationships
>> among kinds of actant, see link below.) One could presumably map these
>> forms
>> of agency, the changes, the other agents a player encounters, and so
>> develop
>> a description of the regional ontology of a game.
>>
>> <
>> http://www.cla.purdue.edu/English/theory/narratology/modules/greimasplotmai
>> nframe.html<http://www.cla.purdue.edu/English/theory/narratology/modules/greimasplotmainframe.html>
>>
>> Martin
>>
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