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What’s going on?

Willard McCartyReader in Humanities

ComputingKing’s College London

staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/

Countries, cultures,

communication: digital innovation

at ucla,10 May 2007

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“What’s going on?”

1. The question that won’t go away

2. Modeling & ‘the alternativeness of human possibility’

3. Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for

4. Disciplines & what’s happening in them

5. What is to be done

6. Bridge-building

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Erving Goffman (1922-1982)

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“What’s going on?” The question that won’t go away

Modeling & ‘the alternativeness of human possibility’

Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for

Disciplines & what’s happening in them

What is to be done

Bridge-buildingBrian struggling to prophesy in Monte Python, Life of Brian (1979)

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“What’s going on?” The question that won’t go away

Modeling & ‘the alternativeness of human possibility’

Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for

Disciplines & what’s happening in them

What is to be done

Bridge-building

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Figure 1, from Brian Cantwell Smith, “The Limits of Correctness” (1985): 21

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“Computing” is a participle!

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End-user

End-maker

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“What’s going on?” The question that won’t go away

Modeling & ‘the alternativeness of human possibility’

Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for

Disciplines & what’s happening in them

What is to be done

Bridge-building

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Struder model of St Gall Monastery, www.stgallplan.org

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“What’s going on?” The question that won’t go away

Modeling & ‘the alternativeness of human possibility’

Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for

Disciplines & what’s happening in them

What is to be done

Bridge-building

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“What’s going on?” The question that won’t go away

Modeling & ‘the alternativeness of human possibility’

Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for

Disciplines & what’s happening in them

What is to be done

Bridge-building

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“What’s going on?” The question that won’t go away

Modeling & ‘the alternativeness of human possibility’

Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for

Disciplines & what’s happening in them

What is to be done

Bridge-building

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Artificial vs natural (Paul Wegener, Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam, 1920)

Constructing resources

for (synthetic)

Modeling

VR reconstruction: Struder model, St Gall Project

Modeling for possible

worlds

Inventing new genres

Ivanhoe Game

Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

The Visible Human at The Social, a punk, skin & rudie hangout, in Second Life

of (analytic)

Text and slides at http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/, 5 (2007).