Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Coding, Fiction, Metafiction – the Parcellation of What Isn’t There October 15, 2022 at 4:00pm EST Past Event Watch the video » The humanities deal with the manipulation of ideas. Ideas can be encoded, metabolized, and contribute to cultural evolution. What roles do cultural memes – be they fact, factoid, or fiction – play in what goes on. Does fiction provide any insight into this complex dynamic? Participants: Peter A. Gloor Research Scientist, Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT's Sloan School of Management View Papers / Presentations » Peter A. Gloor is a Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he leads a twenty-year project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks. He is also Founder and Chief Creative Officer of software company galaxyadvisors, and Honorary Professor at University of Cologne, and at Jilin University, Changchun, China. He… read more » Mark Hansen David & Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism & Innovation, Columbia Journalism School Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute of Media Innovation Mark Hansen is the David and Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism and the director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University. He has had over 20 years of collaborations with designers, architects and artists, helping make work that has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the… read more » Yonina Hoffman Assistant Professor, English, US Merchant Marine Academy Yonina Hoffman is an Assistant Professor of English at the US Merchant Marine Academy. Yonina’s research applies systems theory and phenomenology to 20th century literature and the global systems novel. Yonina’s first book, The Voices of David Foster Wallace, used concepts from narrative theory, rhetoric, and phenomenology to to examine the experience of reading through… read more » Jonathan Kramnick Maynard Mack Professor of English, Yale University Jonathan Kramnick is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University. His research and teaching is in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, philosophical approaches to literature, and cognitive science and the arts. He is the author of three books. His new book, Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness (Chicago, 2018), asks what distinctive knowledge… read more » Nikos Salingaros Professor, Mathematics & Architecture, University of Texas at San Antonio View Papers / Presentations » Dr. Nikos A. Salingaros is Professor of Mathematics and Architecture at the University of Texas at San Antonio. An internationally recognized Architectural Theorist and Urbanist, his publications include the books Algorithmic Sustainable Design, Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction, A Theory of Architecture, Principles of Urban Structure, and Unified Architectural Theory, plus numerous scientific articles. He co-authored with… read more »
Peter A. Gloor Research Scientist, Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT's Sloan School of Management View Papers / Presentations » Peter A. Gloor is a Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he leads a twenty-year project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks. He is also Founder and Chief Creative Officer of software company galaxyadvisors, and Honorary Professor at University of Cologne, and at Jilin University, Changchun, China. He… read more »
Mark Hansen David & Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism & Innovation, Columbia Journalism School Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute of Media Innovation Mark Hansen is the David and Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism and the director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University. He has had over 20 years of collaborations with designers, architects and artists, helping make work that has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the… read more »
Yonina Hoffman Assistant Professor, English, US Merchant Marine Academy Yonina Hoffman is an Assistant Professor of English at the US Merchant Marine Academy. Yonina’s research applies systems theory and phenomenology to 20th century literature and the global systems novel. Yonina’s first book, The Voices of David Foster Wallace, used concepts from narrative theory, rhetoric, and phenomenology to to examine the experience of reading through… read more »
Jonathan Kramnick Maynard Mack Professor of English, Yale University Jonathan Kramnick is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University. His research and teaching is in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, philosophical approaches to literature, and cognitive science and the arts. He is the author of three books. His new book, Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness (Chicago, 2018), asks what distinctive knowledge… read more »
Nikos Salingaros Professor, Mathematics & Architecture, University of Texas at San Antonio View Papers / Presentations » Dr. Nikos A. Salingaros is Professor of Mathematics and Architecture at the University of Texas at San Antonio. An internationally recognized Architectural Theorist and Urbanist, his publications include the books Algorithmic Sustainable Design, Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction, A Theory of Architecture, Principles of Urban Structure, and Unified Architectural Theory, plus numerous scientific articles. He co-authored with… read more »