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From: gabbydott <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: What could the internet be?

I prefer the social romantic quote from Facil to this quote here. New times
demand new imagery to hurt and to ridicule.

Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2015 schrieb Molly :

> http://youtu.be/sZrgxHvNNUc
>
> On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 6:20:05 PM UTC-5, archytas wrote:
>>
>> That's true Molly.  I'm only Oliver asking for more.
>>
>> On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 8:45:34 PM UTC, Molly wrote:
>>>
>>> No doubt the current event stuff is conCOCKted and restricted. Net
>>> neutrality in the US is presented as not allowing broadband vendors doing
>>> what the government already does. Though all that crap, we can still manage
>>> to extend our reach and ourselves in ways that raise consciousness (McLuhan)
>>>
>>> On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 12:13:03 PM UTC-5, archytas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Foucault (1979) put forward some ideas on what would happen as
>>>> information technology took hold (The Postmodern Condition: a report on
>>>> knowledge).   Essentially, the  professor would be less a repository of
>>>> facts as we got free access to these.  Much of this literature would glow
>>>> bright from Gabby's red pen.  Quite a few have taken Fuller's view on how
>>>> to get more material into public scrutiny.  These should include the
>>>> distribution and circulation of knowledge claims. The task of social
>>>> epistemology of science, according to Fuller, should be regulation of the
>>>> production of knowledge by regulating the rhetorical, technological, and
>>>> administrative means of its communication. While there has not been much
>>>> uptake of Fuller's proposals as articulated, Lee's work begins to make
>>>> detailed recommendations that take into account the current structures of
>>>> funding and communication.  Fuller encounter between individual-based
>>>> social epistemology with its focus on testimony and disagreement as
>>>> transactions among individuals and the more fully social epistemologies
>>>> that take social relations or interaction as partially constitutive of
>>>> empirical knowledge, is the goal.
>>>>
>>>> Whatever this mouthful says, much is not on the internet because
>>>> existing power interests have prevented it.  A new business model with
>>>> countervailing structures is not really emerging.  The lack of progress is
>>>> not surprising, but I suspect most of us don't know how much has been
>>>> blocked.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Fuller, Steve, 1988. Social Epistemology, Bloomington, IN: Indiana
>>>> University Press.
>>>> Lee, Carole J., 2012. “A Kuhnian Critique of Psychometric Research on
>>>> Peer Review,” Philosophy of Science, 79(5): 859–870.
>>>> –––, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Guo Zhang, and Blaise Cronin, 2013, “Bias in
>>>> Peer Review,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
>>>> Technology, 64(1): 2–17.
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 3:14:39 PM UTC, archytas wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Welcome Twirly - you sound remarkably like someone else.  We'll be
>>>>> playing our cards right soon.  I'm glad you bought a pair of Facil's
>>>>> boots.  Allan seems to have been filling his.  The question probably
>>>>> concerns what expert knowledge is.  There is now a long history of what it
>>>>> wasn't.  Think clerks trying to smash Babbage's counting machine or
>>>>> Luddites on machinery generally.  The shipyards I worked in were full of
>>>>> expert skills not actually needed in building ships.  We have embedded a
>>>>> lot of work skill in technology.  The resistance of the allocation class
>>>>> has been aggressive.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do??? - there must be some German distinction between knowing that and
>>>>> knowing how - wohl wissend, dass and zu wissen, wie?  Finding the root
>>>>> metaphors is quite difficult.  People are reluctant to show you what they
>>>>> actually do; perhaps beyond your category error and being left trying to
>>>>> model a non-slip process with grease.  We have plenty of examples of TPM
>>>>> (total production maintenance) as you say.  Teachers, lawyers, 
>>>>> accountants,
>>>>> managers and politicians all claim expert knowledge.  The expertise may be
>>>>> keeping up the delusion of expertise, rather than rule following and
>>>>> ability to break the rules of actual practice, a bit like a secretive form
>>>>> of a soccer player allowed to carry a machine gun - think big company
>>>>> tax-dodging and stuff like high frequency trading, front-running and other
>>>>> investment tricks since telescopes were used to spot ships on the horizon
>>>>> by commodities traders.
>>>>>
>>>>> Big issues, of course, concerning who controls the technology.
>>>>> Currently, ownership is very restricted, to niche markets like Molly's and
>>>>> those behind the smiling pussy internet and government and commercial
>>>>> spying.  Many still have no access.  And we have no challenge to really 
>>>>> big
>>>>> news-entertainment corporations - other than Democracy No, Real News and
>>>>> illegal streams of the same old content.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 1:46:35 PM UTC, Gabby wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Okay. Next round. Twirly-girly at your service or at your command,
>>>>>> whatever you prefer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In a different context I pulled my red pen on the sentence before the
>>>>>> one that Facil marked. (Excellent video translation btw, Facil!)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My main point was that you cannot do(???) expert knowledge on a root
>>>>>> metaphor with a categorical break at the wrong place - if not to say on 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> wrong metaphor, because the same car driving training one was used.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Meaning in speed and business terms, the earlier in the process you
>>>>>> identify the error, the cheaper the error eradication process.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I took down a different different keyword from my eternal savior's
>>>>>> doings in the delusion thread, but I will take better care this time as 
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> not have it overwritten again this time. It will be one brick of a solid
>>>>>> square.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am Freitag, 13. Februar 2015 15:41:22 UTC+1 schrieb archytas:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Most of my use of the internet concerns researching pretty dire
>>>>>>> academic papers and books through still largely restricted access.  It's
>>>>>>> much cheaper than buying the stuff directly, particularly as 99% of what
>>>>>>> shows up is dross.  I've played with the rest to find out what is there.
>>>>>>> Search is a big plus compared with rooting through stuff in a university
>>>>>>> library.  Now, much google search just turns up dross I don't want.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In an academic project we are interested in what is on the net
>>>>>>> generally - in terms of how much of general consciousness this 
>>>>>>> represents.
>>>>>>> Rational discussion is a tiny part of what is on the net.  Techies 
>>>>>>> spend a
>>>>>>> lot of time looking for cut and paste code and ways we might automate 
>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>> sweep.  There is a background idea that we are looking for new ways to 
>>>>>>> do
>>>>>>> 'expert knowledge' on the metaphor of people not being able to build 
>>>>>>> cars
>>>>>>> but able to drive them with a bit of training.  My own bad is 'big 
>>>>>>> data' as
>>>>>>> a new language that would bring a different speed to human discourse and
>>>>>>> potentially control of the means of production.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Lately, I'm interested in the lack of a business model for anything
>>>>>>> except trash.  I can join a site where a couple of young women will 
>>>>>>> send me
>>>>>>> off-the-peg clothes on approval to ensure my sartorial elegance, though
>>>>>>> don't.  There are plenty of interesting Moochs, but I don't have time.  
>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>> bank n line and have the joy of never seeing a bank clerk. Shopping can 
>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>> done in the same manner as shops don't interest me at all.  My insurance
>>>>>>> renewals are always 30% higher than I can get the same cover for via 
>>>>>>> one of
>>>>>>> the broker sites on the day.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I do electronic teaching.  So I'm no longer racked by whatever
>>>>>>> diseases undergraduate classes try to kill me with.  And I never see a 
>>>>>>> boss
>>>>>>> or have to attend a useless staff meeting, or have my classes flooded as
>>>>>>> the students discover I'm an easier touch and tell jokes.  The work is 
>>>>>>> more
>>>>>>> or less pre-prepared and my timetable is not changed at ridiculous short
>>>>>>> notice and I don't have to take time to teach kids from other classes, 
>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>> my door because they can't get anywhere with the guy supposed to help.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can watch television and films through illegal sites, but would
>>>>>>> really prefer to pay for channels where I could select from much wider
>>>>>>> material without packaging.  The current business model encourages 
>>>>>>> loads of
>>>>>>> channels with the same (usually old) dross, or stuff like Netflix with 
>>>>>>> only
>>>>>>> 1% I'd want to see and don't want to pay to support.  Sports channels
>>>>>>> require me to pay for soccer I don't want.  Tony has done more for me 
>>>>>>> in a
>>>>>>> few minutes (neglecting his production time) than Sky Arts bores ever
>>>>>>> could.  We lack a business model of actual choice.  With one, 
>>>>>>> insanestream
>>>>>>> news and other entertainment, the crap science pornography of the BBC,
>>>>>>> Discovery and so on, would be things of my past.  In chronic business
>>>>>>> terms, I wonder how they do market segmentation at all.  I am sick of 
>>>>>>> Blue
>>>>>>> Peter (kids programme here) presentation.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One can imagine plenty of people like the best through this group
>>>>>>> wanting something very different and something large enough not to be a
>>>>>>> part of when time presses and so on.  Uber, properly supervised against
>>>>>>> racist drivers, could bring very radical change - I meet few who can
>>>>>>> explain why - though we have not yet worked out that technology could
>>>>>>> massively reduce what we currently call work and planet burning.  In the
>>>>>>> meantime we can't even set up a discussion group without Gabby (and
>>>>>>> everyone really) worrying on the curtain shades.  Give us a twirl then
>>>>>>> girl, like one of those doxies Bruce Forsythe used to encourage.  I can 
>>>>>>> see
>>>>>>> something of a business model, starting with Chris' 'attractors'.  The
>>>>>>> eventual key is content for a sophisticated audience - remembering very 
>>>>>>> few
>>>>>>> people do education without any kind of accreditation pay-off and the 
>>>>>>> means
>>>>>>> to pay for organisation does not move easily from free.  Current 
>>>>>>> strategies
>>>>>>> are advertising and the begging bowl.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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