J.C. Nyiri - Thinking with a Word Processor


	J.C. Nyiri - Thinking with a Word Processor

Ryan Rasmussen

10-23-2007 8:59 AM

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analog, digital, communication, digital convergence, paper

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How relevant is the impression of touch [markmaking] in thought, memory, etc.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dea359fb-0c60-4613-9fec-195efda2bf57/CC8A1A66-04FD-455B-925A-48639E1E6327/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/KRB93_TLK.htm" href="http://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/KRB93_TLK.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.hunfi.hu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/KRB93_TLK.htm"><P><STRONG><EM>Thinking with a Word Processor</EM></STRONG><EM></EM><A href="#N_1_"><SUP>(1)</SUP></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/KRB93_TLK.htm"><P>In a well-known passage of the <EM>Blue Book</EM> Wittgenstein remarks: "We may say that thinking is essentially
the activity of operating with signs. This activity is performed by the hand, when we think by writing; by
the mouth and the larynx, when we think by speaking." We may, he continues, legitimately employ the
expressions "'we think with our mouths', or 'we think with a pencil on a piece of paper'".<A href="#N_2_"><SUP>(2)</SUP></A> When one of
Wittgenstein's favourite authors, Friedrich Nietzsche, started to use a typewriter and sent some rhymes
he produced on it to a friend, the latter - a composer - commented upon the robust language. "Perhaps
you will through this instrument even take to a new idiom", the friend wrote; "with me at any rate this
could happen; I do not deny that my 'thoughts' in music and language often depend on the quality of pen
and paper".<A href="#N_3_"><SUP>(3)</SUP></A> To which Nietzsche replied: "You are right - our writing equipment takes part in the
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