Transcript Angeletics - A Message Theory

Angeletics - A Message Theory
Rafael Capurro
Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (HdM)
www.capurro.de
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Introduction
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Gr. ‘angelía’ = message
Angeletics and angelology
Angeletics in a narrow sense
Angeletics in a wider sense
Message and information
‘informatio’: moulding matter, moulding
the mind
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I. Angeletics as an interdisciplinary
theory
 Shannon’s theory of message transmission
(1948)
 The concept of message: sender-dependent,
new, relevant, media/messenger, selection
 Luhmann’s concepts of message
(“Mitteilung”), information (“Information”)
and understanding (“Verstehen”)
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I. Angeletics as an interdisciplinary...
 An ideal situation:
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a sender addresses a receiver, sending him/her a
message that is new and relevant,
a messenger brings the message undistorted to
the receiver,
a receiver reserves judgement, based on a
process of interpretation, about whether the
message is true or not.
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I. Angeletics as an interdisciplinary...
 The sender should follow the ‘principle of
respect’
 The messenger should follow the ‘principle
of faithfulness’
 The receiver should follow the “principle of
reservation’
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I. Angeletics as an interdisciplinary...
 Flusser’s communicology:
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dialogical goal: creation of new information
discursive goal: distribution of information
 A “message society”
 Angeletics and hermeneutics
 Mediatic nihilism or a “time of empty
angels”
 Nietzsche’s Dysangelium
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II. Angeletics at the Crossroad of
Hermeneutics and Biology
 DNA-messages and the ‘postal paradigm’
 Weizsäcker’s view of information: back to
‘idea’ and ‘morphe’ (Plato, Aristotle)
 Koichiro Matsuno’s young fellow
 What does it mean ‘to in-form’ a cell?
 Messages and time: the internal and the
external perspective
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II. Angeletics at the Crossroad...
 Heidegger’s existential hermeneutics or the
pragmatic turn in epistemology
 Pears or apples?
 What does it mean ‘being addressed by
something’?
 Hermeneutic or practical understanding
(know how) and theoretical interpretation
(know that)
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II. Angeletics at the Crossroad...
 Change-over:
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situation -> pre-understanding (need) -> choice
-> situation...
message -> release mechanism -> response ->
message...
know how -> breakdown -> interpretation ->
know that -> ...
 Weizsäcker’s “objectivised semantics”
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II. Angeletics at the Crossroad...
 Implicit and explicit understanding
 What is ‘is’?
 Heidegger’s “being-in-the-world” as
“world-forming”
 “world-poor”: the “own richness of
openness” of living beings
 the horizon of choices
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II. Angeletics at the Crossroad...
 Jerry Chandler and the “multiple dynamics
of form”: “organic communication can
admit error in the process of generating a
message, in the process of transmitting the
message or in the process of responding to
the message.”
 ‘form-as-message’ ontology and/as
epistemology
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Conclusion
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Hierarchies of communication
Message as a second order category
Senders and receivers
The ‘hermeneutic circle’ as an angeletic
process
 If “the medium is the message” McLuhan
what is a message?
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