Whats going on

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Whats going on?
Countries, cultures, communication
digital innovation at ucla, 10 May
2007
Willard McCarty Reader in Humanities
Computing Kings College Londonstaff.cch.kcl.a
c.uk/wmccarty/
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Whats going on?

• The question that wont go away
• Modeling the alternativeness of human
  possibility
• Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for
• Disciplines whats happening in them
• What is to be done
• Bridge-building

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Erving Goffman (1922-1982)
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Whats going on?

• The question that wont go away
• Modeling the alternativeness of human
  possibility
• Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for
• Disciplines whats happening in them
• What is to be done
• Bridge-building

Brian struggling to prophesy in Monte Python,
Life of Brian (1979)
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Whats going on?

• The question that wont go away
• Modeling the alternativeness of human
  possibility
• Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for
• Disciplines whats 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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Whats going on?

• The question that wont go away
• Modeling the alternativeness of human
  possibility
• Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for
• Disciplines whats 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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Whats going on?

• The question that wont go away
• Modeling the alternativeness of human
  possibility
• Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for
• Disciplines whats happening in them
• What is to be done
• Bridge-building

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Whats going on?

• The question that wont go away
• Modeling the alternativeness of human
  possibility
• Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for
• Disciplines whats happening in them
• What is to be done
• Bridge-building

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Whats going on?

• The question that wont go away
• Modeling the alternativeness of human
  possibility
• Analytic modeling of and synthetic modeling for
• Disciplines whats happening in them
• What is to be done
• Bridge-building

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VR reconstruction Struder model, St Gall
Project
Modeling for possible worlds
Constructing resources
Ivanhoe Game
Inventing new genres
for (synthetic)
Modeling
of (analytic)
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
The Visible Human at The Social, a punk, skin
rudie hangout, in Second Life
Artificial vs natural (Paul Wegener, Der Golem,
wie er in die Welt kam, 1920)
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Text and slides at http//staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/wmc
carty/, 5 (2007).