>Would the contents of this forum be accessed through
>such key words? What procedures could we consider for organizing the
>material? How would it retain its discursive quality?
Jordan Crandall wrote:
>Eve, Would the contents of this forum be accessed through
>such key words? What procedures could we consider for organizing the
>material? How would it retain its discursive quality?
Jordan,
I will give your questions some thought. In the meantime....
When I posted this index, I was thinking of *Index: FLUID GEOGRAPHIES* as
simply a list.
A list comprised of our collective words from this discussion.
A list of keywords, phrases, concepts, points of departure, jargon,
theories, quotations, language-based clip-art, poetic fragments, reveries,
etc. that I found compelling within a specific arena of the discussion in
this forum. I really had no practical reason for doing this other than my
own attempt at understanding some of the concepts being discussed, and an
appreciation for the beauty of the words being used.
I thought of this process as one index entry in a series of index entries.
(The idea of Fluid Geographies is personally of interest to me in relation
to my work) Yet, there are obviously are many other threads,ideas, events,
issues that could conceivaby be indexed.
But on a more outward thinking note, there has been some imput from others
on expanding this idea and making it into an interactive component, an
event-site of sorts within the larger framework of Blast or the larger
framework of the great unknown WHATEVER. This excites me greatly.
Morgan wrote
>p.s., attn: Mr. Jordan Crandall, etc... worthwhile future projects dep't...
>what if a forum similar to this one existed in cognitive map form: instead
>of a linear call and response format, textured with interleavings, as it
>now is, we conversed with the assistance of nodes and nodal linkages..?. is
>there an informational "law" on the books that explicates what happens when
>an extra dimension is added to thought-chains? What would occur if this
>discussion moved from "fat 1-D" into a 2-D mapping scheme... personally,
>I'd be transfixed if it could rev up to 3-D, but were talking, as the IBM
>joes put it, heavy iron.
>three key ingredients are needed, and
>they tend to come bundled... you need an absolutely cookin' machine (like
>an Oracle 8 server, which is designed from the bottom up to be a java
>device), you need first rate programmers to make the program elegant,
>effective, and not frustratingly glitchy, and you need some righteous
>corporate interest in what your doing...
>... the whole point of
>java is to have you need as little computer as possible on your desktop and
>let them do the crunching, then send the results back to your machine)
> ...all indications to me at
>least are the Java is poised to seriously reshape the mental landscape, it
>makes the microsoft windows etc approach feel so static and dull....
Re: your second Q, Jordan, I would hope that the procedures would
foreground the visual rather than the textual. Through this visual key one
could access texts-materials-images. Being the low-tech kind of person
that I am, I think someone else might better offer technical suggestions to
this question. (i have lots of ideas what it might look like)
Re Q.3: I would hope that it would retain its discursive quality, but open
up to endless cross- referencing inside and outside of the discourse of the
100 days. This cross-fertilization is what is so appealing.
Eve
PS> I was serious when I suggested that others contribute imput as I am
quite aware that my "index" is a subjective one. I tend to to index, map,
catalogue things and make lists especially when there is some element of
absurdity or irrationality involved in the metacontent. Pattern recognition
and glitches or dislocations in the pattern have equal weight.
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