Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:44:01 +0200 From: Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se> Subject: M-I: Yoshie unmasks a cyber-vangelist Reading Yoshie's comments on Ben's mode of argument, I was struck by the similarity of Ben's style and all-inclusive rhetorical gestures to the media-evangelists. Perhaps he could take an evangelical aptitude test and earn himself a few bucks to take his cyber-crusade to the televiewing spiritually thirsting masses. Cheers, Hugh Yoshie wrote, for instance: >After reading your work at your website, I was struck by the frequency with >which you use analogies between society and nature as well as those between >human beings and computers. But you never seem to get around to *arguing*, >instead of just asserting, *why* such analogies are valid when considering >questions at hand. You seem to assume that your analogies will be accepted >by your readers without your explaining why we sould. I, for one, find such >analogies to be of limited significance. Moreover, such analogies can be >quite dangerous, in that they tend to naturalize or instrumentalize human >agency. > >You seem to teat all kinds of complexity similarly. Nature, society, >individual human beings, and computers may be said to be all very >"complex," but are they "complex" in the same way? If you think so, isn't >your theory of "complexity" rather too simple? --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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