Tag: Language
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Twitter metadata—metaphor?
This post featured originally in Nodalities Magazine. I’m sure I’m introducing old friends; but Twitter is a “microbloggiing” platform, to give it its proper description. it gives users 140 characters to publish status updates, comments, gripes, complaints, praises, news and whatever comes to mind. It’s burst out of its original answer to the simple question:…
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Data as metaphor
I have talked a lot about metaphor, both here and, perhaps sadly, to my friends and family. Metaphor and the abstract are true passions of mine, and I can’t help but see them everywhere. I suppose, it’s the nature of metaphor to be everywhere, really. The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one thing…
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Semantic Metaphors
Edit: the original blog post on Nodalities blog has been archived/deleted/ignored. I’ve republished it here. I tend to live in a world of metaphor. It’s not my fault, according to Lakoff and Johnson. We all use metaphor all the time: to construct our thoughts and work out abstract concepts. I’ve been exploring this a bit…
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Walled gardens: mapping the parties
Originally appeared on the Nodalities blog – which has since been consigned to the wayback machine. 29th April 2008, 11:34 am by Zach Beauvais In: Uncategorized The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing on kind of thing in terms of another. -Lakoff and Johnson (1980) Would you join me for a party? It’s a…