Nodding rose wake-robin: The role that representation plays in conceiving of the virtual ... which is as old as language, Harbin ethnography

Harbin ethnography:


... complementary interpretations emerging in relation to the differences and similarities of actual/virtual Harbin.

The role that representation plays in conceiving of the virtual, now digitally mediated, in the context of this actual / virtual Harbin ethnography is as old as language. In the context of actual Harbin, the virtual here refers to experiences anyone anyone might have in the pools, for example, in their own bodyminds. And in relation to virtual Harbin in Second Life / Open Simulator, the virtual refers also to that which people experience perhaps in their own bathtubs at home, while interacting in virtual Harbin, both in type chat and in voice, also in their own bodyminds as a kind of essence. Terrence Deacon's view of 'indexicality' is also significant here. In “The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain” (), Deacon uses indexicality to explain sounds come to ... Indexicality here then refers to a kind of virtuality. To briefly characterize how language informs an understanding of the virtual in this ethnography ...


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(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/05/nodding-rose-wake-robin-role-that.html - May 19, 2010)