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Title: HIST1900 Retrospective date: {{2023-04-06}} type: literature project:

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Citational Information

January 9th

  • The [telephone game], what does it become at the end?
  • Major problem in civilization: [Communication of information over distance, securely].
  • "mch dstrctn cn hppn t mssg bfr t s nrdbl" - [Language features redundancy]. Key element in the creation of digital communication
  • [Bandwith] What happens when messages are competing in the same space?
  • Fundamental [problems of communication] that have profound consequences.
  • [History of the internet] is a history of a particular package of technologies.
  • What frames of internet history can we study
  • [Prehistory of the Internet]
  • [The first Internet]
  • [The modern Internet]

January 11th

  • [Archeology]: Explore what it means to be human through its traces
  • [Digital] pertains to digits; descrete numbers and computation as opposed to [Analog] systems, where the values is continuous.
  • [Memory storage] of the past
    • Jacquard cards
    • Mount Street Mills
    • AGC Rope
  • Different [thing]s and [places] of this history
  • Different [archeological theories]
  • Different [historical theories]
  • What are the questions?
  • [Space Economy Theory] - refers to the way invements in infrastructure contract the experience of space between places
  • [Complicated vs Complex Theory] - The things we study are often emergent from lower level elements
    • We've got [complicated] individuals enmeshed in systems that collapse time and space
    • [Complex]systems are useful for considering what happens when you've got many different kinds of things interating in non-linear ways.
  • [Assemblage Theory] - how does a thing gather unto itself?
    • assemblage composed of human and non-human
    • how actions are distributed across a network
    • you can't divide the world into physical objects/properties and human agency
    • it's the interactions that matters
    • Material Engagement Theory
    • The pot that emerges is driven by an idea in their mind.
      • the pot reacts to the reality of the clay, wheel, water, and past clays made, ambition for future pots. (SAME AS CODING)
  • [Perspectivism] - How something is recorded matters
    • many ways to make the decisions
    • these new categories of ideas emerge from engaging with the material
    • Like the pot & clay, if you don't see the relationship with clay, you don't even look to see it
  • Dr. Graham: a [network] is present whenever there is a relationship between two entities along which information flows. (Definition of information)
  • Networks form a substrate for social life, humans aren't the only things that have a social life
  • networks leave physical traces
    • more complex phenomena can emerge from interactions in certain network shapes
    • networks provide mechnisms which computation can happen - computation is inherent in the shape of the network
    • the components of a networked history are not just the technical objects, but also the assemblage
  • Questions to ask:
    • What are the social/political/economic contexts of the people, places, things?
    • What are the assemblages that make the people, places, things up?
    • How do those assemblages extend in time or space?

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