Let's make WUAS become the accessible database for every archaeological and museum objects in all languages in the world. Check out the open Museum's http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums page for online collections that are substantially free & open ...
...for online collections that are substantially free & open.
We can change the WUaS Subject Template (with which you can add a SUBJECT about anything you want to teach and focus on) to an OBJECT TEMPLATE :) Here's the http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE as a basis - it's also a key ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/zuni-land-lets-make-wuas-become.html - October 11, 2010)
Monday, October 11, 2010
Primate Village: The significance of the medium as the message, Marshall McLuhan, Television, virtual Harbin as Global Village
Harbin ethnography:
... Vis-a-vis virtual Harbin in this ethnography, the …
In highlighting the significance of the medium as the message, in relation to actual and virtual Harbin Hot Springs, the prescient, difficult-to-understand, Toronto-based media theorist and philosopher Marshal McLuhan suggested, in the mid 1960s, that the advent of television represented a qualitative change in the way society shares information and communicates with its citizens, especially since Gutenberg's printing press, and the growth of literacy around the world. Television diffused faster than any other medium in history and transmits information in a fundamentally different way where what the viewer takes away is not every image displayed -- there are too many -- but an overall impression. McLuhan's well-known dictum that “The Medium is the Message” emphasized the dominance of TV as a conveyor of information to a mass audience and not the individual TV messages themselves. In suggesting that "We are going to live in a global village," he presciently suggested that all of society would experience a sense of the ‘whole’ through the electronic medium of TV and later through other technological mediums. In assessing why TV should have such a major impact, one of McLuhan's researchers suggested three reasons: i) TV was a powerful sensorial simulation of reality; ii) TV produced stories allowing the viewer to relate in easy ways to an old human story telling tradition; and iii) TV is a medium that requires the least amount of personal effort, the path of least resistance. TV offered a passive system that disconnects individuals from the rest. The massive use of TV required a very little amount of psychological effort. Television helped to define what mass communication is: information from one source to many receivers. While radio was also significant as a form of one-to-many mass communication, it was also connected with other activities such as commuting and working, and not solely for passive reception (MacLeod 2001a). As McLuhan said in the mid 1960s:
“After three thousand years of explosion, by means of fragmentary and mechanical technologies, the Western world is imploding. During the mechanical ages we had extended our bodies in space. Today, after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned. Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extensions of man - the technological simulation of consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society, much as we have already extended our senses and our nerves by the various media” (McLuhan, https://web.archive.org/web/20100725072458/http://www.utoronto.ca:80/mcluhan/marshal.htm .... was: http://www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/marshal.htm#McLuhan_downloads).
McLuhan’s arguments help shape an understanding of the significance of the internet as a mode of mass communication. Actual Harbin Hot Springs has a village, where residents live, and is a village itself, in that people live in homes there. And with emergent headset technologies that allow individuals to interact with digital 'objects' and processes without words or language (Andrew Junker and Tan Le), Harbin residents, and all of us, may connect our nervous systems (McLuhan) in real time consciousness with each other, vis-a-vis McLuhan, in a virtual Harbin OpenSim or Second Life environment, at present. These now, multimedia, communicative practices give form to new kinds of ongoingly, creative, communicative practices.
The actual Harbin village is a road with homes on it, for residents, called 'The Village,' which is near the Harbin Warehouse, and which feels a little like a row of houses that were planned to be part of a village at one point but didn't generate the fabric of life, including commerce which some villages do, - nevertheless, it is the “Harbin Village,” both in name, and actually; as 'place,' the so-named 'village path' leads along a beautiful hillside and creek bed from the Harbin pool area to these dwellings in “The Village”. ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/primate-village-significance-of-medium.html - October 11. 2010)
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Nova: World University & School is in a tradition of neo-pragmatism with wiki
World University & School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com - is in a tradition of neo-pragmatism with wiki vis-a-vis knowledge production, where you can teach, add, learn or create.
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WUaS Pragmatism: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pragmatism
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Pragmatism - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatism/
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/nova-world-university-school-is-in.html - October 10, 2010)
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WUaS Pragmatism: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pragmatism
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Pragmatism - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatism/
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/nova-world-university-school-is-in.html - October 10, 2010)
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Darwin's Ascenion Island: Long welcome spells in the waters
Long welcome spells in the waters :)
Long Welcome Spells in the Waters
Naked & ur,
Primal, & free from clothes,
Head into Harbin's waters,
Into the welcome, warm pool ~
Now.
{I saw a woodpecker,
black & white,
as I awoke in my car,
skating up the
lower side of a trunk -
light taps reverberating
through the air -
at work,
making a living}.
Everybody is heading
to Burning Man's
freedom in the desert,
and I head to Harbin
which is quieter now,
mid-week, - still summer.
In the cave-like,
temple's rest room,
I stand on an
amazingly beautiful,
stone floor,
while floating on
its deep-wavey, ocean walls,
rose-ocher in color,
looking through
its three round windows -
two of which are portals -
and its one round mirror,
and see Harbin,
beautiful Harbin.
A domed, peaked door,
a copper banister snaking
behind the toilet,
one timber post,
supporting the wood slat ceiling,
irregularly shaped,
I revel in its loveliness.
Up to the pools, soon ...
My anthropological
field site,
Harbon's warm pool,
becomes a water site,
where water work
tranforms field work
~ poolside ~
into pool play,
ethnographically.
... took at least
three spells of long,
welcome lingering
in the waters
to release into ease, -
to free into bodymind,
floating, flying,
lotus brain.
(2 September 2010)
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/darwins-ascenion-island-long-welcome.html - October 9 2010)
Long Welcome Spells in the Waters
Naked & ur,
Primal, & free from clothes,
Head into Harbin's waters,
Into the welcome, warm pool ~
Now.
{I saw a woodpecker,
black & white,
as I awoke in my car,
skating up the
lower side of a trunk -
light taps reverberating
through the air -
at work,
making a living}.
Everybody is heading
to Burning Man's
freedom in the desert,
and I head to Harbin
which is quieter now,
mid-week, - still summer.
In the cave-like,
temple's rest room,
I stand on an
amazingly beautiful,
stone floor,
while floating on
its deep-wavey, ocean walls,
rose-ocher in color,
looking through
its three round windows -
two of which are portals -
and its one round mirror,
and see Harbin,
beautiful Harbin.
A domed, peaked door,
a copper banister snaking
behind the toilet,
one timber post,
supporting the wood slat ceiling,
irregularly shaped,
I revel in its loveliness.
Up to the pools, soon ...
My anthropological
field site,
Harbon's warm pool,
becomes a water site,
where water work
tranforms field work
~ poolside ~
into pool play,
ethnographically.
... took at least
three spells of long,
welcome lingering
in the waters
to release into ease, -
to free into bodymind,
floating, flying,
lotus brain.
(2 September 2010)
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/darwins-ascenion-island-long-welcome.html - October 9 2010)
Friday, October 8, 2010
Planet Orbit: Liszt - La Campanella (Kissin), Performance of extreme confidence, What means "neurophysiology" v-a-v Bliss
Liszt - La Campanella (Kissin)
JDM (a professional music writer and critic):
From beginning to end, that was a performance of extreme confidence. Really amazing. I found the camera shenanigans distracting, to say the least. I suspect Liszt himself would click "Like."
Scott:
While this could be code for bliss, I found myself absorbed, enjoying the performance, but my neurophysiology didn't go into orbit.
JDM:
Am a Martha Argerich/Glenn Gould fan myself. Don't know what means "neurophysiology." Was just an undergrad English major.
Scott:
Moi aussi ... I think of neurophysiology sometimes in relation to the experience of taking ecstasy (MDMA) ... and how that feels (in love), as well as how scientists might characterize such neurochemistry, objectively, but with better tools, and language, than we have now. Here's the neurophysiology label from my blog: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/neurophysiology. Similarly, when I'm listening to raga or the Dead, and I'm into it, and know I'm enjoying it, I think of this raga as having an effect on my neurophysiology.
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/planet-orbit-liszt-la-campanella-kissin.html - October 8, 2010)
JDM (a professional music writer and critic):
From beginning to end, that was a performance of extreme confidence. Really amazing. I found the camera shenanigans distracting, to say the least. I suspect Liszt himself would click "Like."
Scott:
While this could be code for bliss, I found myself absorbed, enjoying the performance, but my neurophysiology didn't go into orbit.
JDM:
Am a Martha Argerich/Glenn Gould fan myself. Don't know what means "neurophysiology." Was just an undergrad English major.
Scott:
Moi aussi ... I think of neurophysiology sometimes in relation to the experience of taking ecstasy (MDMA) ... and how that feels (in love), as well as how scientists might characterize such neurochemistry, objectively, but with better tools, and language, than we have now. Here's the neurophysiology label from my blog: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/neurophysiology. Similarly, when I'm listening to raga or the Dead, and I'm into it, and know I'm enjoying it, I think of this raga as having an effect on my neurophysiology.
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/planet-orbit-liszt-la-campanella-kissin.html - October 8, 2010)
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Cacti & Thunderstorm: World Univ & Sch is like SF's EXPLORATORIUM museum w its hands-on SCIENCE, WUaS Music, Brautigan's Poetry, Relaxation Response
World University & School is like San Francisco's EXPLORATORIUM museum with its hands-on SCIENCE. Teach, Add, Learn & EXPERIMENT online at http://worlduniversity.wikia.com - like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, Berkeley Webcast and facilitating people-to-people idea sharing.
Here's World University & School's open, editable Research subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research
... and with (potentially) an ALL instrument Music School:
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School
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Richard Brautigan:
"I'll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won't rain." ... http://twitter.com/#!/Kool_Aid_Wino/statuses/26681764474
:) and Brautigan's poetry is at World Univ & Sch's Poetry page:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Poetry
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The Relaxation Response is a boon & a balm at Harbin in the warm pool & at home. Teach, Do & Learn about it via http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Relaxation_Response and http://relaxationresponse.org/steps
World Univ & Sch is free, open and editable. :)
Teach and Learn about anything ... {& from the relaxation response:}
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/cacti-and-thunderstorm-world-univ-sch.html - October 7, 2010)
Here's World University & School's open, editable Research subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research
... and with (potentially) an ALL instrument Music School:
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School
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Richard Brautigan:
"I'll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won't rain." ... http://twitter.com/#!/Kool_Aid_Wino/statuses/26681764474
:) and Brautigan's poetry is at World Univ & Sch's Poetry page:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Poetry
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The Relaxation Response is a boon & a balm at Harbin in the warm pool & at home. Teach, Do & Learn about it via http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Relaxation_Response and http://relaxationresponse.org/steps
World Univ & Sch is free, open and editable. :)
Teach and Learn about anything ... {& from the relaxation response:}
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/cacti-and-thunderstorm-world-univ-sch.html - October 7, 2010)
Bristlecone in winter: Knowledge, and ideas, in Plato's allegory of the cave are virtual forms, Prometheus
Harbin ethnography:
... ... In the field of anthropological linguistics' focus on communication, especially vis-a-vis ethnography and the 3000-8000 language's in the world, virtual Harbin's possibility and emergence adds new instantiations of what is actually signified by a sign – in the form of interactive, digital representations - extending Saussure's and many others emphasis on, what I interpret here, to be parallels between the signifier and the virtual.
Conversation leading to new knowledge, as such, emerges as a concept in the ancient Greek world (reference), vis-a-vis Platonic dialogues (reference), as intimacy-filled as some of the Symposium, for example, was (Plato and Wikipedia). And knowledge, and ideas, in Plato's allegory of the cave are virtual forms, in this interpretation, in a variety of ways (see ethnography above). And the ancient Greeks codified an aspect of the significance of language in the Promethean legend (a demigod, one of the Titans, who was worshiped by craftsmen. When Zeus hid fire from man, Prometheus stole it by trickery and returned it to earth. As punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock where an eagle fed each day on his liver, which grew again each night; he was rescued by Hercules – Apple Dictionary 2007 – v2.0.3 (51.5)), where Prometheus steals fire from the Gods, and gives it to people, in the form of language in this interpretation, thus freeing people from their ignorance, especially vis-a-vis authority. Vis-a-vis virtual Harbin in this ethnography, the ...
In highlighting the significance of the medium as the message, in relation to actual and virtual Harbin Hot Springs, the prescient, difficult-to-understand, Toronto-based media theorist and philosopher Marshal McLuhan suggested, in the mid 1960s, that the advent of television represented a qualitative change in the way society shares information and communicates with its citizens, especially since Gutenberg's printing press, and the growth of literacy around the world. ... ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/bristlecone-in-winter-knowledge-and.html - October 7, 2010)
... ... In the field of anthropological linguistics' focus on communication, especially vis-a-vis ethnography and the 3000-8000 language's in the world, virtual Harbin's possibility and emergence adds new instantiations of what is actually signified by a sign – in the form of interactive, digital representations - extending Saussure's and many others emphasis on, what I interpret here, to be parallels between the signifier and the virtual.
Conversation leading to new knowledge, as such, emerges as a concept in the ancient Greek world (reference), vis-a-vis Platonic dialogues (reference), as intimacy-filled as some of the Symposium, for example, was (Plato and Wikipedia). And knowledge, and ideas, in Plato's allegory of the cave are virtual forms, in this interpretation, in a variety of ways (see ethnography above). And the ancient Greeks codified an aspect of the significance of language in the Promethean legend (a demigod, one of the Titans, who was worshiped by craftsmen. When Zeus hid fire from man, Prometheus stole it by trickery and returned it to earth. As punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock where an eagle fed each day on his liver, which grew again each night; he was rescued by Hercules – Apple Dictionary 2007 – v2.0.3 (51.5)), where Prometheus steals fire from the Gods, and gives it to people, in the form of language in this interpretation, thus freeing people from their ignorance, especially vis-a-vis authority. Vis-a-vis virtual Harbin in this ethnography, the ...
In highlighting the significance of the medium as the message, in relation to actual and virtual Harbin Hot Springs, the prescient, difficult-to-understand, Toronto-based media theorist and philosopher Marshal McLuhan suggested, in the mid 1960s, that the advent of television represented a qualitative change in the way society shares information and communicates with its citizens, especially since Gutenberg's printing press, and the growth of literacy around the world. ... ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/bristlecone-in-winter-knowledge-and.html - October 7, 2010)
Lotus seed pod: Modern linguistics, Not evolutionary biological, Language as object, virtual Harbin new instantiations of what is signified
Harbin ethnography:
... In Deacon's view, vis-a-vis this Harbin ethnography, symbols and words are virtual, which have far-reaching evolutionary consequences on biology, making possible language use.
Modern linguistics, while not developing an evolutionary biological-related focus in detail yet, makes language its object of examination, highlighting, for example, the significance of the sign and signifier (de Saussure) as well as its structure, its morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics. Its well-developed specializations in multiple fields such as sociolinguistics, dialectology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, historical-comparative linguistics, and applied linguistics add to theorizing communication here vis-a-vis actual and virtual Harbin as field sites by providing approaches to studying language use on the ground and in virtual worlds (UCLA). In the field of anthropological linguistics' focus on communication, especially vis-a-vis ethnography and the 3000-8000 language's in the world, virtual Harbin's possibility and emergence adds new instantiations of what is actually signified by a sign – in the form of interactive, digital representations - extending Saussure's and many others emphasis on, what I interpret here, to be parallels between the signifier and the virtual.
Conversation leading to new knowledge, as such, emerges as a concept in the ancient Greek world (reference), vis-a-vis Platonic dialogues (reference), as intimacy-filled as some of the Symposium, for example, was (Plato and Wikipedia). ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/lotus-seed-pod-modern-linguistics-not.html - October 7, 2010)
... In Deacon's view, vis-a-vis this Harbin ethnography, symbols and words are virtual, which have far-reaching evolutionary consequences on biology, making possible language use.
Modern linguistics, while not developing an evolutionary biological-related focus in detail yet, makes language its object of examination, highlighting, for example, the significance of the sign and signifier (de Saussure) as well as its structure, its morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics. Its well-developed specializations in multiple fields such as sociolinguistics, dialectology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, historical-comparative linguistics, and applied linguistics add to theorizing communication here vis-a-vis actual and virtual Harbin as field sites by providing approaches to studying language use on the ground and in virtual worlds (UCLA). In the field of anthropological linguistics' focus on communication, especially vis-a-vis ethnography and the 3000-8000 language's in the world, virtual Harbin's possibility and emergence adds new instantiations of what is actually signified by a sign – in the form of interactive, digital representations - extending Saussure's and many others emphasis on, what I interpret here, to be parallels between the signifier and the virtual.
Conversation leading to new knowledge, as such, emerges as a concept in the ancient Greek world (reference), vis-a-vis Platonic dialogues (reference), as intimacy-filled as some of the Symposium, for example, was (Plato and Wikipedia). ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/lotus-seed-pod-modern-linguistics-not.html - October 7, 2010)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Lion cuddle: Hippy to the Hot Springs
Hippy to the Hot Springs
Hippy to the Hot Springs
meets hippies in the hot springs - floats.
Hippy to the Hot Springs
greets hippies in the hot springs
without song - they do Watsu.
Hippy to the Hot Springs
seeks hippies in the hot springs.
She's interested - Love.
Hippy to the Hot Springs
finds hippies in the hot springs -
cuddle puddle.
Hippy to the Hot Springs
at Harbin Hot Springs, -
plays, easing home.
Hippy to the Hot Springs
comes home
in warm waters &
generates kindness.
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/lion-cuddle-hippy-to-hot-springs.html - October 6, 2010)
Hippy to the Hot Springs
meets hippies in the hot springs - floats.
Hippy to the Hot Springs
greets hippies in the hot springs
without song - they do Watsu.
Hippy to the Hot Springs
seeks hippies in the hot springs.
She's interested - Love.
Hippy to the Hot Springs
finds hippies in the hot springs -
cuddle puddle.
Hippy to the Hot Springs
at Harbin Hot Springs, -
plays, easing home.
Hippy to the Hot Springs
comes home
in warm waters &
generates kindness.
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/lion-cuddle-hippy-to-hot-springs.html - October 6, 2010)
Atlantic Sturgeon: Symbolization and language use both give form to kinds of virtuality, as well as are a shared process among human primates
Harbin ethnography:
... The significance of such history will highlight, I hope, what's mind-expanding about Harbin in a variety of ways, and complement Boellstorff's emphasis on Techne in understanding virtual worlds.
Symbolization and language use both give form to kinds of virtuality, as well as are a shared process among human primates, in particular. In Terrence Deacon's book, “The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of the Brain and Language,” many species have sophisticated communicative processes. Human language emerges building on these communicative process, due to information process among proto-human primate groups. Deacon suggests that ideas transformed the brain – that is, the biological organ in the craniums of homo - to make it bigger for communication. Returning to the example of headsets which read your brain waves (Tan Le 2010 - url) and the psylocybin mushroom example vis-a-vis a virtual Harbin, above, where this device connects with your cerebellum, I'm curious about ways in which such new communicative processes might give rise to new communicative approaches; (effects on brain evolution would occur in populations over thousands of generations, and will be thus impossible to effect). In Deacon's view, vis-a-vis this Harbin ethnography, symbols and words are virtual, which have far-reaching evolutionary consequences on biology, making possible language use.
Modern linguistics, while not developing an evolutionary biological-related focus in detail yet, makes language its object of examination, highlighting, for example, the significance of the sign and signifier (de Saussure) as well as its structure, its morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics. ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/atlantic-sturgeon-symbolization-and.html - October 6, 2010)
... The significance of such history will highlight, I hope, what's mind-expanding about Harbin in a variety of ways, and complement Boellstorff's emphasis on Techne in understanding virtual worlds.
Symbolization and language use both give form to kinds of virtuality, as well as are a shared process among human primates, in particular. In Terrence Deacon's book, “The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of the Brain and Language,” many species have sophisticated communicative processes. Human language emerges building on these communicative process, due to information process among proto-human primate groups. Deacon suggests that ideas transformed the brain – that is, the biological organ in the craniums of homo - to make it bigger for communication. Returning to the example of headsets which read your brain waves (Tan Le 2010 - url) and the psylocybin mushroom example vis-a-vis a virtual Harbin, above, where this device connects with your cerebellum, I'm curious about ways in which such new communicative processes might give rise to new communicative approaches; (effects on brain evolution would occur in populations over thousands of generations, and will be thus impossible to effect). In Deacon's view, vis-a-vis this Harbin ethnography, symbols and words are virtual, which have far-reaching evolutionary consequences on biology, making possible language use.
Modern linguistics, while not developing an evolutionary biological-related focus in detail yet, makes language its object of examination, highlighting, for example, the significance of the sign and signifier (de Saussure) as well as its structure, its morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics. ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/atlantic-sturgeon-symbolization-and.html - October 6, 2010)
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