Comments on: Connecting the Dots http://www.scottbot.net/HIAL/?p=41441 data are everywhen Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:49:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 By: Synthesizing Naturalized Language Patterns to Simulate Meaningful Thresholds of Purpose for Interchangeable Labour Nodes in Specialized Knowledge Economies | acadamia nuts, digital humanities flavour http://www.scottbot.net/HIAL/?p=41441#comment-11718 Thu, 26 Nov 2015 05:29:30 +0000 http://www.scottbot.net/HIAL/?p=41441#comment-11718 […] Scott Weingart deconstructs the picture this way, though: as that circle grows larger with time, then “every new dissertation expanding our radius…increas[es] the distance to our neighbors” such that “the inevitable growth of knowledge results in an equally inevitable isolation. / This is the culmination of super-specialization: a world where the gulf between disciplines is impossible to traverse, filled with language barriers, value differences, and intellectual incommensurabilities” (np), or in McPherson’s words, “the divide-and-conquer mentality that the most dangerous aspects of modularity underwrite” (153). […]

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