[Humanist] 26.459 when amplification makes new
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willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk
Wed Nov 7 07:43:37 CET 2012
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 459.
Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 10:38:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Laval Hunsucker <amoinsde at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: 26.456 when amplification makes new; usefulness of mapping interface
In-Reply-To: <20121106064130.C74B82E10 at digitalhumanities.org>
John Laudun wrote :
> Doesn't this inquiry connect back to previous threads about the
> location of "ability" or "knowledge" when using tools? Certainly,
> if one follows the work of cognitive anthropologists like Charles
> Frake and Edwin Hutchins, who argue that in cognition is embedded
> (often) in a larger process which includes materiel outside the human
> body, then the skilled operator does indeed possess the ability. That's
> Frake notion, to some degree, when discussing the Medieval sailor's
> use of the compass rose and also Hutchins' notion when exploring the
> expanded socio-technological landscape of modern ship navigation, a
> landscape he ultimately describes as "distributed cognition."
As far as Classics ( my former field ), at least, is concerned : this jogs
in my memory that, interestingly, such a line of thought was being
pursued by Don Fowler not too long before his very untimely death,
as I heard him discuss in a presentation which he gave at the colloquium
"Computing in Classical Studies" at the ULondon Institute of Classical
Studies back in February of 1998. Willard will probably know more
about this and about whatever further may have come of it. And, in that
connection, I note his own relevant "A network with a thousand
entrances: commentary in an electronic age?" ( p.359-402 in _The
classical commentary: histories, practices, theory_ / ed. by R.K.
Gibson & C. Shuttleworth Kraus. - Brill, 2002 ) -- an article which he
in fact dedicated to Fowler. Perhaps he might wish to say something
more about this.
- Laval Hunsucker
Breukelen, Nederland
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