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roachboy · 09-01-2008, 04:48 AM

i would say that you are operating with a significant problem of scaling.
the television manufactured wright "scandal" composed of arbitrary sound-bytes strung together as if they represented a social-historical reality that unfolded over 20 years is juxtaposed with a senate voting record as if these were equivalent at the level of status and so were equivalent at the register of meaning.
i would say that if you cannot tell these registers of information apart, then you probably are not up for making judgments, not even simple ones.

i would wonder how you function in the world without bumping into things: lint and furniture would be the same size for you, moving across the living room an epic challenge.

but in a 3-d pub, i would make a decision about whether this was a conversation worth having based on any number of criteria, all of which would drop to the side of the sound-byte version of that conversation presented in the op: whether the seat was good, whether i could look out the window, whether you seemed vaguely amusing despite the fact that you cannot distinguish levels of information one from the other.

context matters.

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roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	i would say that you are operating with a significant problem of scaling. the television manufactured wright "scandal" composed of arbitrary sound-bytes strung together as if they represented a social-historical reality that unfolded over 20 years is juxtaposed with a senate voting record as if these were equivalent at the level of status and so were equivalent at the register of meaning. i would say that if you cannot tell these registers of information apart, then you probably are not up for making judgments, not even simple ones. i would wonder how you function in the world without bumping into things: lint and furniture would be the same size for you, moving across the living room an epic challenge. but in a 3-d pub, i would make a decision about whether this was a conversation worth having based on any number of criteria, all of which would drop to the side of the sound-byte version of that conversation presented in the op: whether the seat was good, whether i could look out the window, whether you seemed vaguely amusing despite the fact that you cannot distinguish levels of information one from the other. context matters. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 09-01-2008 at 04:51 AM..