Episode 12
Analogies in and around /Image and Logic/
A comparison of how Monte Carlo analogies and software analogies played out. Plus: a suggestion that Galison's "trading zone" analogy in /Image and Logic/ has an important flaw.
October 10, 202216m 14s
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Show Notes
- Peter Galison, Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics, 1997
- The 1968 Software Engineering Conference
- An objection to the trading zone
- Fauconnier and Turner, The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities, 2002.
- Eric Raymond, "Homesteading the Noosphere", 1998-2000
Credits
Roulette wheel image from Flickr user k-bot, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Topics
softwarephysicsGalisonanalogies