From 526d8a0731089db4b378334cb629ae3d39b18404 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: p Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 01:24:24 -0500 Subject: preparin for printin --- ch3.otx | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'ch3.otx') diff --git a/ch3.otx b/ch3.otx index fdbfa34..99add8b 100644 --- a/ch3.otx +++ b/ch3.otx @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ \chap\nl -Beginning, perhaps, in the 17\textsuperscript{th} century, a few had embarked on a program of \dq{modernizing} society; shattering old categories and languages while inventing new ones. Leibniz, for instance, dreamed of a logical\slash mathematical-based universal language. One of the great agendas of the 18\textsuperscript{th} and 19\textsuperscript{th} centuries was a vast program of reclassification. There was also an attempt to trace back all modern languages to a primal Indo-European tongue. Past and present humans, societies, languages, plants and animals were arranged on a progressive scale.\fnote{And this was a continuation of the Renaissance, which had introjected the past, ancient Greece, into its program of liberation from medieval thinking} New theories and new disciplines emerged: economics, politics, psychology, sociology, history, the physical sciences, mythology, anthropology\ld\ all split off from philosophy. These new disciplines began to atomize and reconstruct, emphasizing quantification. They were partial fictions and suffered all the difficulties of translation; each developed their own jargons, hard and soft tools, aesthetics, formal modes of organizing the perception of the world, creating new mediating lenses between humans, and between humans and the natural world. In time, each one of these disciplines claimed to be a total world view\ld\ as did each mitotic sub-discipline. General systems theory and interdisciplinary studies began to emerge in the early twentieth century. Now, in the tail end of the 20\textsuperscript{th} century, they are remelted into the general category of information and communication theory. +Beginning, perhaps, in the 17\textsuperscript{th} century, a few had embarked on a program of \dq{modernizing} society; shattering old categories and languages while inventing new ones. Leibniz, for instance, dreamed of a logical\slash mathematical-based universal language. One of the great agendas of the 18\textsuperscript{th} and 19\textsuperscript{th} centuries was a vast program of reclassification. There was also an attempt to trace back all modern languages to a primal Indo-European tongue. Past and present humans, societies, languages, plants and animals were arranged on a progressive scale.\fnote{And this was a continuation of the Renaissance, which had introjected the past, ancient Greece, into its program of liberation from medieval thinking.} New theories and new disciplines emerged: economics, politics, psychology, sociology, history, the physical sciences, mythology, anthropology\ld\ all split off from philosophy. These new disciplines began to atomize and reconstruct, emphasizing quantification. They were partial fictions and suffered all the difficulties of translation; each developed their own jargons, hard and soft tools, aesthetics, formal modes of organizing the perception of the world, creating new mediating lenses between humans, and between humans and the natural world. In time, each one of these disciplines claimed to be a total world view\ld\ as did each mitotic sub-discipline. General systems theory and interdisciplinary studies began to emerge in the early twentieth century. Now, in the tail end of the 20\textsuperscript{th} century, they are remelted into the general category of information and communication theory. The information age required a vast new enterprise: an enormous translation or conversion project; a reduction of all disciplines into a kind of symbolic, quantified representation---a new universal language which would translate the languages, dialects and jargons of all languages and disciplines---appropriate to the basic circuit logics in the computers. Bit by bit the differences between disciplines and disparate bodies of knowledge (as well as living and non-living bodies considered as language) are becoming eroded. This endeavor implied a perhaps fictional notion; that the universe and everything in it is logico-mathematical. It also implied that all things and forces in the universe could be treated as a cryptogram, a code, a text that could be \e{read}, sooner or later. Another and muted implication was that all things in the universe were in some sense \e{perceptually} simultaneous. -- cgit v1.2.3