2003-06-09 D&G- Train notes Some idle notes from the little reading I did on the way to Nottingham today. . It might be useful to refer ot the always-there context of DNA-becoming-phenotype as "norms" or "givens". They can be roughly assumed - they're not *just* context. . p64: My real & virtual worlds dichotomy is actually *things* and *words*. And we're early days, because the two are still territorialized. Like moving to the steppe allowed the larynx to deterritorialize (& produce language), what movement will allow things & words to do so? This is semiotcracy and supersenses, the essence of virtual/real in real/virtual. A territory is when a pull exploration of a landscape hasn't yet been internalised (Kuhn) with the rest of the system/ecology. Deterritorialization is exaptation, the next iteration of the pull. . 3 kinds of sign on p65 are very good! ("indexes (territorial signs), symbols (deterritorialized signs), and icons (signs of reterritorialization)") . p76: teacher at top of stairs, student at bottom. random other thoughts: 1 - Imagine a telic version of Chinese Whispers. Teacher asks a question which gets mutated: how does the answer get mutated on the way back? 2 - Instead of a factual question, how about a collaborative one. "Flip a coin. How many people got heads?" 3 - What is the literate analogue of Chinese Whispers? Where is the written word lossy compression & decompression? . On the deterritorialization of words: But we can discuss words, and hand them on. They are becoming *things*. (Ah, speech acts.)