Dear FIS colleagues, A new course has started, in which hopefully we will re-assume exciting exchanges like in past months. For a starter, let me mention one of the books I went through this Summer: "The Economics of Attention" (Richard A. Lanham, Un. of Chicago Press, 20006), I think it has not been cited in our discussions yet. The book continues the very themes we recently approached but mostly considered within the social realm. The author advocates a new theory of human communication --displays of information, signals, motives, attention structures, intellective oscillatory cycle, styles & rhetorics, social exchange...). Overall, he has produced a stimulating and fertile synthesis ---a possible path to communicate FIS stuff with the social and "literary" reflections of today? Along the "disciplinary shift" he proposes, arts and letters become central, as the disciplines that study how attention is located and how cultural capital is traded. Thus the letters and the sciences have changed place (together with style vs. substance, design vs. engineering, rhetorics vs. philosophy...). It is a real call of attention to those, like us, who are reflecting on foundations for an integrated information perspective.
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