Hei Patrick. Matthew, August

> There are some details of a course I taught until reecently which might
> give you an intreating perspective to cover in "meaning of information
> technology" at
> Www.paych.lse.ac.uk/~patrick/ps445

I think that's http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/~patrick/ps445

> Happy explorations

thanks for the pointers!

Matthew, yes, thanks, I added Hayles, in the next week I have to decide
WHICH of all this stuff I will assign -- I've found, the last time I was
teaching in the US, it was a chalenge to get US students to read
anything!

August -- I definitely had Shannon, but hadn't added it to that library
yet... I'll cover coding, to be sure, from linguistic, technical,
control, and social points-of-view, though we don't have the time to go
into it (it's a seminar versus studio course -- I'd like it better to be
doing things as well as talking about things!) (I'm intrigued about your
statement that the (function?) of coding-as-information is
counter-intuitive/directly at odds with a normative definition of
information -- can you expand on that?)

Cheers & thanks again,
John


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