22nov2002 Media terminology extracts [extracted from "Media terminology", 10nov2002] There are a lot of words here that probably need to be defined, or at least their implicit links [from in my head] written down. A bunch of dichotomies: push/pull phatic/emphatic directed/undirected or telic/atelic team/group those are various SPECTRUM ends. These are parallel families, which have slightly different terminology: individual/social rhetoric/social rhetoric universal grammar/social grammar language/social language Social language is the brane to the superstring of language. Many to many. The question being, what structures and properties - grammar and rhetoric - do these have? Those dichotomies from earlier: push is: industrial goal-oriented artificial, man-made money-saving directed/telic team roadmap rules pull is: exploring landscape incentive fields natural, environmental undirected/atelic money-expensive if feedback doesn't make use of everything left to itself, irreducibly complex hypothesis: nature is as complex as it is possible to be Consider it like exploring a landscape. (These are so different.) - with push, with each step you direct yourself towards the goal. The landscape around you doesn't affect the direction - with pull, there is no goal. With each step, more landscape around you is available. All available landscape pulls you into it. And this changes the landscape itself, more land emerges the more is explored, even between the already explored bits. PULL LANDSCAPE IS FRACTAL