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From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
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Subject: ADMIN: DOC: What's Usenet University; the current list of UU groups
Keywords: self, distance, education, uu, volunteer
Date: 2 Aug 92 15:08:37 GMT
Followup-To: alt.uu.future
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

[Followups directed to alt.uu.future]

Contains the "what-is-uu" document
(nic.funet.fi:/pub/doc/uu/what-is-uu) and a current list of UU groups
(nic.funet.fi:/pub/doc/uu/newsgroups).

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What is UU?

Contents:

1. What is Usenet University?
2. What the name means and how to participate in UU
3. Goals and principles
4. Administration
5. Copyright on the articles and learning material
6. Technology
7. Disciplines or division of topics 
8. Practical steps


1. What is Usenet University?

Usenet University, or UU (not to be confused with Uppsala University)
is, or more accurately will be, a society of people interested in
learning, teaching or tutoring.  There is no formal organization or
funding at least as of yet, and the concept exists currently mostly in
the newsgroup alt.uu.future which was created on June 12, 1992.  It is
the group for discussing the future of Usenet University, and
discussions on alt.uu.future will to a large extent shape what the UU
will become.  Many people have already participated in the discussion
and influenced the shaping of this document.  (If you do not get
alt.uu.future, contact your news administrator for more information if
it's a problem with the propagation or some other reason - the
administrator often can provide a newsgroup when requested).


2. What the name means and how to participate in UU

"Usenet" refers to the global conferencing network used as a media or
one of the medias for Usenet University, as well as the "spirit" of UU
- UU is open to anyone who can access it, free for expressing ideas,
is quite a bit anarchistic in nature, and thus as Usenet newsgroups UU
will be what the participants cause it to be.

"University" refers to the "community" aspect of UU, not so much to
"university level" or "academic discipline", neither does it mean that
there are specific plans for UU to become a university where you can
get a certificate from.  This doesn't mean to say that certificates or
recognition of Usenet University by accepted academic would be
unthinkable, just that it isn't central to the concept of UU at least
at this point in the development.  Certificates and recognition
probably will come via cooperation with existing organization if they
will.

For now, Usenet University will operate under the "alt" hierarchy, as
"alt.uu.*".  It would be desirable to later move to a separate
distribution, out from under alt when there will be numerous
newsgroups for various areas of learning.  Thus, there would be a
separate distribution and hierarchy like (just an example)

uu.future
uu.lang.esperanto.beg
uu.lang.esperanto.material
uu.lang.esperanto.exercises
uu.comp.lang.pascal.env.gnu
uu.comp.lang.pascal.beg

However, "uu" is already taken by Uppsala University.  Alternative
names possible for the distribution are World University (wu),
Planetary University (pu), Virtual University etc.  There will be time
to discuss and decide this when the change to a separate distribution
and hierarchy is made - for now the name is Usenet University and the
hierarchy is alt.uu, ie. the hierarchy will be something like the
above list with "alt." prepended.


3. Goals and principles

One primary goal of UU is to use Usenet communications to offer
participants possibilities to learn things, to educate themselves, to
teach others, to exchange information on learning materials, tools and
techniques as well as publish learning material itself.  In this
respect UU will aim to become a kind of "place to learn".

Connected with this, a primary principle of UU is openness, to stay
open for anyone passing by just willing to learn, with little formal
qualifications or requirements.  To try to commit to this principle
much of the activity will happen on open newsgroups.  It probably will
be desirable to have some kind of classifications in some of the
groups for "beginner" and "advanced" topics to avoid problems of
participants having very different vocabularies, concepts, levels of
expertise etc. and thus communications problems.  To implement
classification and make groups more worthwhile with moderated
newsgroups, a possibility would be to have a matching unmoderated one
from which "the cream" will be replicated on the moderated group.

One important goal is to offer several alternative ways for learning.
People learn best with different ways - some learn by reading books on
their own, some by browsing around and experimenting, some prefer
tutors or close teacher/student relationships, some prefer
lectures/classes with strict structure, some learn by doing.  All
these should be provided with an opportunity to learn with the style
they prefer - it might mean there would be several groups for one
topic, using different methodologies.

One goal is to create, organize and offer references to learning
material, to maintain lists of literature, Usenet newsgroups, ftp
sites and services, libraries and so on relevant to fields

One goal is to offer discussion groups for students who learn by
tossing ideas around and discussing them, asking each other and
helping each other out.

One possible goal is to create and archive learning material
(tutorials, exercises) itself.

One possible goal is to offer possibilities for tutors and students to
find each other for email teaching.


4. Administration

There are decisions to be made concerning the process of creation of
newsgroups, possible moderation of them, how to divide topics and
disciplines, how to handle possible (probable) flame wars and other
possibly destructive phenomena, and so on.  Some kind of a
decision-making process will need to be established for these.  To be
compatible with the goals and principles of UU, some kind of a
groupware decision-making support system would be useful to help the
process.

To better classify information exchange and to provide feedback for
participants, some kind of accreditation / peer review system is
desirable.  Here again groupware mechanisms and tools would be useful
for being compatible with the openness principles, dividing work and
avoiding single point of failure.


5. Copyright on the articles and learning material

According to the Berne convention, the author has the copyright on his
or her work.  If a base of learning material is created, copyright is
a relevant issue - should a "Usenet University" trust be created which
holds the copyright, should the authors have the copyright with some
kind of a GNU-like copyright, should the authors have the copyright
and give other only the right to copy the documents in the UU context,
should the created documents be put in the public domain.  There are
lots of possibilities and at least if the aim is to create a big base
of material some guidelines need to be established.


6. Technology

Technology which people os Usenet have varies widely.  Many have
text-only 80 x 24 character displays, while many have workstations
with big graphics screens with perhaps also color and sound, and
software for multi-media email.  This needs to be addressed - for
topics like learning to speak languages, for example sound can be an
essential part and transmitting sounds on UU would be very beneficial.

Besides the capabilities of the media, access to on-line resources such
as ftp servers, archie, www, wais servers, newsgroup archives and
other services on the Internet varies.  Some only have a Usenet feed
with little possibility to access on-line services, some have very
fast lines to the rest of the world and some are in between.

These differences probably will divide discussions a bit - for
learning of languages for example it could be useful to have a
separate group for those who have sound capabilities, to avoid
frustration on the part of those with no such access.


7. Disciplines or division of topics 

There are several possibilities for how to divide topics handled in
UU.  There is the discipline division of the scientific community,
there are various classifications used by libraries, there is the
Usenet newsgroup division, etc.  It probably is not wise to use
strictly just any one of these divisions, but it would seem useful to
borrow from many of them.

This is an issue which needs discussing.


8. Practical steps

To get things rolling, we should discuss some suggestions for topics
you think would be good as "prototype topics", with suggestions for
group names.  These topics should be ones for which there are enough
people interested on to reach "critical mass".  One possibility would
be to take a topic for which there already is reference material for -
some newsgroups on Usenet have excellent FAQs with literature
references, answers to many questions, hints from old-timers etc.
which could offer a good start for a tutorial on the topic.

It probably will be desirable to have a few groups for each topic.  An
example division would be to have one group for generic discussions
and one for material references / exercises / other
"carefully-written" articles standing on their own.  Alternatively a
system of keywords in the Subject field could be adopted (like used in
sci.virtual-worlds) to mark the type of each article, but for
unmoderated groups it would be hard to maintain the practice.
----------------------------------------
Current newsgroups

These new groups (created 22 July 1992) are part of the Usenet
University.  For further information on UU, see directory pub/doc/uu on
the machine nic.funet.fi.

A "material" group means that the group exists for postings of
course material, announcements, pointers to material and resources,
essays, etc. relevant to the "department" of the group and/or the
topic.  This group is for one-time articles / posts - discussions are
_not_ suitable for this newsgroup but should instead be held in a
corresponding .misc group.  Followups should be directed and posted
there.  On some UU groups (where there is a volunteer teacher /
teachers) the material will be mostly for course-like work, on others
for self-study, on others the main info will be something else.  The
conventions will form as time passes and while there are none, a wide
range of relevant postings will appear.  Later, different styles of
learning will perhaps spin off different newsgroups.

A "misc" group exists for discussions on learning, followups on the
"material" group articles, and other discussion relevant to the
department or topic.

For all departments / topics, there are as of yet no "material" groups
but instead only .misc groups - in that case, articles fitting in the
material group should be posted with "MATERIAL" as the first word in
the Subject: field of the article.

The following groups have been created 1992, July 22nd:

alt.uu.lang.misc	Language department of Usenet University

This is a group for the "language department" of UU.  This is the
"main group" for learning languages, linguistics etc. - later there
will be more specific groups for different topic in the field.

alt.uu.math.misc	Math department of Usenet University

This is a group for the "math department" of UU.  This is the
"main group" for learning mathematics - later there
will be more specific groups for different topic in the field.

alt.uu.comp.misc	Computer department of Usenet University

This is a group for the "computer department" of UU.  This is the
"main group" for learning things to do with computers - later there
will be more specific groups for different topic in the field.  Both
"computing science" and "using computers as tools" topics are suitable
under this department, at first at least.  Some of the computing
science topics perhaps will fit better under math - the choice is left
to each participant.

alt.uu.lang.esperanto.misc	Study of Esperanto in Usenet University

This is a group for learning Esperanto.  This is the 
"main group" for learning Esperanto - later there
will be more specific groups for different topics in the field.

alt.uu.misc.misc	Misc. department of Usenet University

This is a group for learning about topics not suitable for other
groups of UU.  This is the "catch-all" group, "misc department" of UU.

alt.uu.virtual-worlds.misc	Study of virtual worlds in Usenet University

This is a group for learning about virtual worlds or virtual reality.

alt.uu.tools		Tools for Usenet University and education

This is a group for discussing tools useful in UU and self-education /
distance education, what tools are recommended to be used with UU,
what tools are helpful, where to get such tools, etc.  Examples of the
tools include machinery for viewing languages other than English on
computers, possible UU "courseware" (for studying UU course packages) etc.

alt.uu.announce		Announcements of Usenet University

This is a group for announcements of UU.

alt.uu.future		Planning the future of Usenet University

This functions as a group to discuss the future of UU, and currently
also as a "misc" group in which generic meta-discussions of UU take
place.  The first UU group, created in June 1992.

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Feel free to start using the UU groups!

//Jyrki


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 Roger Berger.  Review of Adam, Ian, and
     Helen Tiffin, eds.  _Past the Last Post:
     Theorizing Post-modernism and Post-
     colonialism_.  Calgary: U Calgary P,
     1990.  Reviewed by Roger Berger.                  BERGER 192

 Chris Connery.  Review of Chow, Rey.
     _Woman and Chinese Modernity: The
     Politics of Reading Between West and East_.
     Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1991.                CONNERY 192

 Clifford L. Staples.  Review of hooks, bell.
     _Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural
     Politics_.  Boston: South End Press, 1990.       STAPLES 192

 Douglas A. Davis.  Review of Cixous, Helene.
     _"Coming to Writing" and Other Essays_.
     Ed. Deborah Jenson.  Trans. Sarah
     Cornell, Deborah Jenson, Ann Liddle, Susan
     Sellers.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991.             DAVIS 192

 Roe Norman.  Review of Code, Lorraine.  _What
     Can She Know?  Feminist Theory and the
     Construction of Knowledge_.  Ithaca: Cornell
     UP, 1991.                                         NORMAN 192

 Susan Ross.  Review of Flax, Jane.  _Thinking
     Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and
     Postmodernism in the Contemporary West_.
     Berkeley: California UP, 1990.                      ROSS 192

 John Batali.  Review of Nye, Andrea.  _Words
     of Power: A Feminist Reading of the History
     of Logic_.  London: Routledge, 1990; Gross,
     Alan G.  _The Rhetoric of Science_.  Cambridge:
     Harvard UP, 1990.                                 BATALI 192

 Robert C. Holub.  Review of Norris, Christopher.
     _What's Wrong With Postmodernism?  Critical
     Theory and the Ends of Philosophy_.
     Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1990.               HOLUB-1 192

 Robert C. Holub.  Review of Koelb, Clayton, ed.
     _Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and
     Contra_.  Albany: SUNY P, 1990.                  HOLUB-2 192

 Sharon Bassett.  Review of Desmond, William.
     _Art and the Absolute: A Study of Hegel's
     Aesthetics_.  Albany: SUNY P, 1986;
     _Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness_.  New
     Haven: Yale UP, 1987; _Philosophy and Its
     Others: Ways of Being and Mind_.  SUNY P,
     1990.                                            BASSETT 192

 Renate Holub.  Review of Norris, Christopher.
     _Spinoza and the Origin of Modern Critical
     Theory_.  Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1991.       RHOLUB 192

 Neil Larsen.  Review of Jameson, Fredric.  _Late
     Marxism: Adorno, or the Persistence of the
     Dialectic_.  London: Verso, 1990.                 LARSEN 192

 Joseph Dumit.  Review of Penley, Constance, and
     Andrew Ross, eds.  _Technoculture_.
     Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 1991.                   DUMIT 192

 Lisa M. Heilbronn.  Review of Kinder, Marsha.
     _Playing With Power in Movies, Television,
     and Video Games; From Muppet Babies to
     Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_.  Berkeley:
     California UP, 1991.                            HEILBRON 192

 James Morrison.  Review of Horton, Andrew, ed.
     _Comedy/Cinema/Theory_.  Berkeley:
     California UP, 1991.                            MORRISON 192

 Susan Schultz.  Review of Ashbery, John.
     _Flow Chart_.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
     1991; Bronk, William.  _Living Instead_.
     San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991.          SCHULTZ 192


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 Russell A. Potter, "Edward Schizohands:                POTTER 592
     The Postmodern Gothic Body"

 Fred Pfeil, "Revolting Yet Conserved: Family            PFEIL 592
     %Noir% in _Blue Velvet_ and _Terminator 2_"

 Tessa Dora Addison and Audrey Extavasia,              ADD-EXT 592
     "Fucking (With Theory) for Money: Toward
     an Interrogation of Escort Prostitution"

 Rochelle Owens, "Drum and Whistle" and                  OWENS 592
     "Black Stems," Two Poems from _LUCA:
     Discourse on Life & Death_

 Donald F. Theall, "Beyond t Orality/Literacy         THEALL 592
     Dichotomy: James Joyce and the Pre-History
     of Cyberspace"

 Walter Kalaidjian, "Mainlining Postmodernism:        KALAIDJI 592
     Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, and the Art
     of Intervention"

 Paul McCarthy, "Postmodern Pleasure and              MCCARTHY 592
     Perversity: Scientism and Sadism"


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     (Post)Mechanical Reproduction"


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     Conservatism, White Victims," review of
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     John Carlos and Rick Berg, and _Fourteen
     Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War
     Literature_, ed. Philip K. Jason.

 Michael W. Foley, review of _Post-Modernism          REVIEW-2 592
     and the Social Sciences: Insights, Inroads,
     and Intrusions_, by Pauline Marie Rosenau.

 Ursula K. Heise, "Becoming Postmodern?"              REVIEW-3 592
     review of _Sequel to History: Postmodernism
     and the Crisis of Representational Time_, by
     Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth.

 Edward M. Jennings, "The Text is Dead; Long          REVIEW-4 592
     Live The Techst," review of _Hypertext: The
     Convergence of Contemporary Literary Theory
     and Technology_, by George P. Landow.

 Matthew Mancini, review of _Thinking Across          REVIEW-5 592
     the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect,
     and the New Pragmatism_, by Giles Gunn.

 Meryl Altman and Keith Nightenhelser, review of      REVIEW-6 592
     _Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks
     to Freud_, by Thomas Laqueur.

 Mark Poster, review of _Michel Foucault_, by         REVIEW-7 592
     Didier Eribon.

 Linda Ray Pratt, "Speaking in Tongues: Dead          REVIEW-8 592
     Elvis and the Greil Quest," review of
     _Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural
     Obsession_, by Greil Marcus.

 Rei Terada, "The Pressures of Merely                 REVIEW-9 592
     Sublimating," review of _American Sublime:
     The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre_, by Rob
     Wilson.


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                            ABSTRACTS

 Russell A. Potter, "Edward Schizohands: The Postmodern Gothic Body"

          ABSTRACT:  In the conjunction between the gothic body
     of Edward in Tim Burton's film _Edward Scissorhands_ and the
     anti-Oedipal Body without Organs in Deleuze and Guattari's
     _Anti-Oedipus_, this essay posits a common machine, that of
     the fragmentary, persecuting Gothic body.  Whether in James
     Whale's 1931 film _Frankenstein_ or in 1991's _Body Parts_,
     the partial body appears again and again as the persecuting
     agent of a society founded upon the monolithically Oedipal
     nuclear family.  This constitution of this body, with its
     scars and sutures, is in fact fundamentally Anti-Oedipal;
     when organs do not stay in place, where is an erogenous zone
     to go?  This essay thus offers a reading not only of _Edward
     Scissorhands_ and its filmic and novelistic precursors,but
     also of the postmodern suburbanity which beings from
     Frankenstein to Edward continue to invade.  --RAP


 Fred Pfeil, "Revolting Yet Conserved: Family %Noir% in _Blue
     Velvet_ and _Terminator 2_"

          ABSTRACT:  In the new Hollywood, quintessential site of
     the intersection between the flexible specialization of
     post-Fordist production and the free-floating
     ideologemes-turned-syntax of postmodernism, the
     transgressive energies and subversive formal practices that
     first animated and defined %film noir% may be most alive and
     well in a new and even perverse combination with other
     similarly deracinated formal and thematic elements from
     other ex- genres of film.  In contrast to classic %noir%,
     which was non- or even anti-domestic, this newer %noir%
     includes, and indeed is centered on, home and family, even
     as it decenters and problematizes both.  Through a look at
     two successful recent films, _Blue Velvet_ and _Terminator
     2_, I mean to show how home and family are being 
     destabilized, "%noir%-ized" in both--dissolved into a semic
     flow or play of boundaries from which, paradoxically, those
     same categories re-emerge with renewed half-life.  --FP


 Tessa Dora Addison and Audrey Extavasia, "Fucking (With Theory)
     for Money: Toward an Interrogation of Escort Prostitution"

          ABSTRACT:  This essay is intended as an introductory
     interrogation of the terrain of escort prostitution,
     mobilizing terms from both _The Telephone Book_ by Avital
     Ronell and _A Thousand Plateaus_ by Gilles Deleuze and Felix
     Guattari.  --TDA & AE


 Donald F. Theall, "Beyond the Orality/Literacy Dichotomy: James
     Joyce and the Pre-History of Cyberspace"

          ABSTRACT:  _Finnegans Wake_ articulates a radical
     modernist or postmodernist theory of poetics and
     communication, based on gesture and tactility, essential to
     understanding cyberspace and the limitations of the
     orality/literacy dichotomy.  Joyce's impact upon theorists
     like Derrida, Eco, or McLuhan contributes to understanding
     the development of VR out of electromechanical technologies
     and high modernism.  --DFT


 Walter Kalaidjian, "Mainlining Postmodernism: Jenny Holzer,
     Barbara Kruger, and the Art of Intervention"

          ABSTRACT:  Taking up the "new times" of postmodernity,
     this essay considers the political resources and limits of
     cultural critique afforded by Kruger's appropriation of
     advertising signage and Holzer's work in light emitting
     diode board technology, both within museum culture and at
     street level.  The essay compares their interventions to the
     more communal, socioaesthetic praxes of Greenpeace and ACT
     UP.  --WK


 Paul McCarthy, "Postmodern Pleasure and Perversity: Scientism
     and Sadism"

          ABSTRACT:  The project of this essay is to provide a
     theoretical basis for ethical-political resistance to
     postmodern perversity.  Through a comparison of Deleuze &
     Guattari's (1987) _A Thousand Plateaus_ to de Sade's
     prototypical deconstructionism, this essay traces the nature
     and consequences of the circulation of desire in a
     postmodern order of things (an order implicitly modeled on a
     repressed archetype of the new physics' fluid particle
     flows), and it reveals a complicity between scientism, which
     underpins the postmodern condition, and the sadism of
     incessant deconstruction, which heightens the intensity of
     the pleasure-seeking moment in postmodernism.  --PM


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  Editorial 1:  Should we say goodbye to "text"?

  Editorial 2:  Writing as reward, not punishment

  LITERACY FOR THE NEXT GENERATION: Writing Without Handwriting
     by David Coniam  Chinese University of Hong Kong

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  Summary of Network Commands
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  About _EJournal_

 PEOPLE: Board of Advisers, Consulting Editors             [l. 39]

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 Editorial 1 - Should we say goodbye to "text"?

 _EJournal_ began as a strictly "text" journal, but the nature
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where people could discuss the kinds of changes in "writing"
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electronic display.  Even "hypertext," in so many ways properly
dislocating and descriptive, (i. e., the three-dimensional
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 BOOK REVIEW: CYBERSPACE FRIST STEPS                          kdp
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 CYBERSPACE: FIRST STEPS edited by Michael Benedikt
 Cambridge MA: MIT Press 1991 
 91-27372; isbn 0-262-02327-X; QC173.59.S65C93

 Introduction -- Michael Benedikt
 Academy Leader -- William Gibson
 Old Rituals of New Space: Rites de Passage and William
      Gibson's Cultural Model of Cyberspace -- David Tomas
 Mind is a Leaking Rainbow -- Nicole Stenger
 The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace -- Michael Heim
 Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?: Boundary Stories about
      Virtual Cultures -- Allucaquere Rosanne Stone
 Cyberspace: Some Proposals -- Michael Benedkt
 Liquid Architectures of Cyberspace -- Marcos Novak
 Giving Meaning to Place: Semantic Spaces -- Alan Wexelblat
 The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat -- Chip Morningstar 
      & F. Randall Farmer
 Collaborative Engines for Multiparticipant Cyberspace 
      -- Carl Tollander
 Notes  the Structure of Cyberspace and the Ballistic Actors
      Model -- Tim McFadden
 Virtual Worlds: No Interface to Design -- Meredeth Bricken
 Corporate Virtual Workspace -- Steve Pruitt & Tom Barrett
 Making Reality a Cyberspace -- Wendy A. Kellog, John M.
      Carrol, & John T. Richards

 This book is an excellent introduction to the competing
concepts of cyberspace. It contains many points of view and
most of them are well articulated. Of special interest is
Michael Benedikt's 'Cyberspace: Some Proposals' which is a
fascinating tour of some possibilities for the development of
the architecture of the cyberspace realm. The book as a whole
reflects an emphasis on the viewpoint of Architects on the
potentials of cyberspace. However, these are not your run of
the mill architects. These are architects who have flown into a
new dimension. They are definitely visionaries. But the book is
not limited to this perspective. Michael Heim has a fascinating
essay in which he traces the roots of Cyberspace back to the
philosophy of Leibniz. I recommend this book highly for anyone
who has found most introductions to this new medium rather
shallow. This book is testimony to the fact that it is a
serious new discipline which some people are thinking hard
about.

..................................................................
 *COMMENTARY*

 Most of that thinking about cyberspace to date revolves around
the image of the cybernaut navigating through an information
rich world. Little thought has been given to the fact that
information is worthless unless it is understood. The emphasis
must switch from the concept of accessing and possessing
mountains of information to the work of understanding and
distilling this information into quality chunks that are
easily absorbed. This is where my own concept of the
thoughtSpace becomes germane. The thoughtSpace is all about mutual
understanding. Without that, mountains of easily accessible
information is useless. The thoughtSpace is the instantiation
of a Universe of Discourse. Within that realm a small group of
people interested in the same subject attempt to understand the
available information together. They produce digests,
compilations, summaries, and white papers which represent the
result of their mutual exploration of the information
landscape. Working together is dependent on thinking together.
Unless we learn to think together in this new medium our work
will be disjointed and the information will remain external to
ourselves. There is a big difference between information and
knowledge. Gaining information is easy compared with producing
knowledge within our selves through intensive thinking.
The thoughtSpace allows this to happen mutually so that the
information space becomes meaningful and the workspace produces
productive of significant advances in understanding as well as
efficiently producing normal products. The product of
knowledege workers is essentially different from information
processing. Information processing does not call for creative
transformation. Knowledge always involves going beyond the 
information given. Knowledge workers are those who provide the
understanding of what the information means. When they work
together they build a thoughtSpace within a particular universe
of discourse.

 We need to begin to build these thoughtSpaces and the universe
of discourses that are their context. The thinknet essay and
discussion channels, the thinknet category on the WELL, and
the concept of the Virtual University each small steps in this
direction.

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 What follows is a thought capsule about the concept of thought
capsules. It has been embedded within the newsletter with its
own start and end delimiters.

 =========================START==TCapsule.001=====================

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 CAPSULE NAME: Thought Capsule about 'thought capsules'

 IDENTIFIER: THINKNET-apeiron-911209a-1.0

 AUTHOR: Kent D. Palmer Ph.D.
 E-MAIL: palmer@world.std.com [or palmer@well.sf.ca.us]
 REPLY TO: discuss@world.std.com
 PHONE:  
 ADDRESS: PO BOX 8383 Orange CA 92664-8383 USA

 DISCIPLINES:

 Philosophy, Communications, Interdisciplinary, Systems theory

 KEYWORDS:

 thought, idea, meme, concept, philosophy, electronic mail, networking

 SUBJECT:

 The thought capsule is a way to embody individual thoughts in
an electronic message form for personal publishing of ones
ideas in order to elicit responses of others and which creates
a permanent record which can be built upon in the future.

 CONTEXT:

 The thinknet project is experimenting with group thinking
processes in the electronic network medium.

 OVERVIEW:

 Thought capsules are a means of structuring information for
easy assimilation and reproduction. Thought capsules
communicate a single thought to those participating in
communal thought. It allows isolation of individual ideas for
easy absorption and well defined response. By this means the
dialectical discussion may be sharpened, and thought capsules
like comets will have their trail of messages which contain the
reactions to them by members of the group.

 EXPOSITION:

 I have been thinking about the problem of structuring thought
in cybertime [2]. It seems to me that we need some way of
organizing out thoughts so we can keep track of them and so we
can relate them to each other dialectically in order to build
on them. Having been introduced to the concept of Meme by Elan
Moritz I started thinking that perhaps what we need is an
electronic vehicle for single memes. So I come up with the idea
of a THOUGHT CAPSULE. A thought capsule is one way to embody a
Meme [1] adapted to the electronic text media. A thought
capsule will attempt to present a single Idea, or concept, or
theory in such a way that it is easily absorbed and reacted to
by its receivers on the network. The reaction would be in the
form of message trails to the thought capsule. A message trail
may either be unstructured reactions, structured reactions
using the thinknet protocol, or other though capsules. This
thought capsule is a meta-capsule as it is a though capsule
about though capsules.

 Thought capsules would strive for brevity and clarity of the
thought being expressed. That thought may be original or just
a representation of someone else's thought appearing in the
literature somewhere. But in the form of a thought capsule
that thought can be uniquely identified and compared to other
thoughts. It is possible for a thought capsule to be a building
block in a larger theoretical structure. A though capsule can
refer to other though capsules to form a hypertext network of
ideas such as that proposed by Cliff Josylin of the PRINCIPIA
CYBERNETICA PROJECT.

 Each though capsule will have a unique identifier like the
ISBN. Through this identifier the though capsule will be able
to be referred to uniquely for reference by other though
capsules. The identifier is constructed of the name of the
mailing list it is first published on; the authors initials or
special publication identifier; the date in YYMMDD form with
letter for each TCapsule published on that date; and a unique
number assigned by the author. The number assigned by the
author should contain a decimal to show the version number of
the particular thought packet which may be updated or rereleased
in some modified form. Each author keeps his own database of
thought capsules. If a person reading a recent though capsule
wants to see a referred to though capsule he can request it of
the author at the email address given by the author.
Eventually it would be interesting to have some archive of
though capsules besides the author's own archive for
posterity.

 Notice that there are several ways to retrieve the thought
capsule which gives us access to the history of ideas under the
discussion:

 Author
 Date YYMMDDn
 Number of capsule n.m
 Name of Capsule
 Discipline
 Keywords
 Words in Subject
 All words in capsule
 By articles or books referred to.

 Thinknet will undertake to validate that the user initials or
special author's publishing identifier is never duplicated.
You can register your identifier by sending a message of the
following form to thinknet@world.std.com

 REGISTER listname-authorId FOR YourFullName <systemUserId@internet.path>

 Registration must be accompanied by a US mail postal address.

 There may be a nominal fee for this service. The point is that 
there must be some name server to assure non-duplication of
identifiers. Perhaps in the future it could be done with a
listserv program. But until then as long as it is manually
maintained then a fee may be charged.

 If that combination has been taken by someone else that has
been registered then you will be notified. Basically this
creates a name space for the publication of thought capsules
which are unique. By registering your publication name wherever
you move people who find TCapsule on the networks can locate
the author and the thought capsules you refer to in your own
thought capsules.

 Thought capsules are a way for us to publish our thoughts one
at a time on the electronic medium in order to get reaction
from others while retaining the rights to our ideas. It
provides a way for us to think together by giving us a
permanent infrastructure to build on. I can refer to the
thoughts of others or my own individually and allow others to
do the same with my ideas. This makes my thoughts accessible
without giving them away. Creating a though capsule will allow
one to claim originality for an idea while showing it to others
without having to wait for it to appear in print. It allows a
personal publishing of ideas in an electronic form. The author
can publish a series of thought capsules and then take these
and republish them in print as they are or reweave the thoughts
into a paper or book as they like having already tested the
idea on others in electronic form.

 The comets trail of comments on a particular though capsule
should contain the following information.

 ORIGINAL AUTHOR: author's-name
 ORIGINAL ADDRESS: email-address
 ORIGINAL CAPSULE NAME: though-capsule-name
 ORIGINAL CAPSULE IDENTIFIER: thought-capsule-identifier
 RESPONSE AUTHOR: responder's-name
 RESPONSE ADDRESS: email-address
 RESPONSE SUBJECT: short-subject-name

 The comment should either be freeform or use the thinknet
protocol. It should be published on the same mailing list as
the author published his though capsule on. Or it could be sent
to the author as a direct comment and the author could keep all
the comments or republish them on the lists that he originally
published his thought capsule on. Thought capsules that respond
to or use other authors though capsules should identify them by
identifier in the TCLINKS section of the thought capsule.

 A though capsule allows ideas to persist on the network. They
may be recalled and reposted when appropriate. Now ideas are
embedded in freeform text and access to them after they are
first published is almost impossible. Thought capsules allow
direct dialectical exchange between those who are thinking
together on the network. They allow people to clearly identify
their ideas and post them in a form that is likely to be
absorbed and taken up by others into their own thought.

 Thought capsules allow allow us to see the evolution of our
thought and its interactions with the thoughts of others in an
explicit fashion. It allows us to think 'out loud' in a public
electronic arena and see the full scope of the market place of
ideas in action as we receive though packets of others and
react to them in our own thought. It gives us an atomic level
of organization to our group thinking processes and frees
thoughts from their normal position embedded in texts from which
they are difficult to extract. Thought capsules can be at any
level of abstraction. The thought capsules at the same level of
abstraction can be identified together and thus compared to the
same level of abstraction in other peoples hierarchy of thought
patterns.

 Thought capsules may function as working papers which go
through several versions as the idea, concept or theory is
honed and fine tuned through the interaction with others. As
with all working papers the whole point is to get the idea down
on paper and then to refine it through successive versions.
Therefore the author may publish different versions of the
same though capsule as important changes in the basic concept
occur. In that case there should be a section describing the
difference from the last version and the history of the
versions. It is also a medium in which several authors can
work together by producing some capsules in common and others
independently to fit into an overall theoretical structure.
Thought capsules can be thought of as conceptual building
blocks that snap together to form complex theoretical
structures built by one or more people.

 Though capsules may contain critique of others ideas, or be
summaries of sets of ideas from different disciplines. Though
capsules are a very flexible publishing form specifically
geared to the electronic medium. All thought capsules
concerning philosophy, systems theory, meta-theory within a
discipline or interdisciplinary studies can be published on the
essay channel which is a moderated mailing list
dedicated to deep thought in the cybertime environment. 
[The address is 'submissions@world.std.com'.]


 DIAGRAM:

 {Diagram explanation goes here, actual system independent
graphics goes after restrictions as an appendix.}

 FURTHER WORK:

 There is a lot of work that needs to be done to make it
possible for deeper thought and discussion to go on in the
cybertime environment. This is only a first step. The THINKNET
newsletter will carry further updates on the experiments with
the discussion & essay mailing lists as well as other related 
activities carried on Bulletin Board Systems and on internet matrix.

 You will notice that there is a diagram section for this
though capsule. This is one specific point where future work
needs to be done which will allow diagrams to be incorporated
into though capsules using some system independent graphics
standard.

 TCLINKS:

 None. {here links to other thought capsules would be made explicit.}


 NOTES:

 1) A 'meme' is an idea which replicates itself easily within
the cultural milieu.

 2) Cybertime is the complement to cyberspace. Even though cyberspace 
does not exist for most of us the time we spend dealing with electronic 
BBSs and networks can be called cybertime.

 3) For thinknet protocol see issue 1 of thinknet newsletter.

 REFERENCES:

 Princypia Cybernetica Project: Cliff Joslyn et al. -- newsletters 1 & 2
 
 Journal Of Ideas: Elan Moritz {concept of meme}

 {References may have the form:

 AUTHOR, A.N.; TITLE; SERIAL Volume (number) year; pages
 AUTHOR, A.N.; TITLE; (City: PUBLISHER; DATE)

 COMMENTS:

 {Comments of others might be directly incorporated into the
successive versions of the thought capsule.}

 ................................................................

 RESTRICTIONS:

 Copyright 1991 Kent Palmer. All rights reserved.

 This though capsule is conceptual shareware. It may be copied
in its entirety and distributed freely without change of form
or content on to any electronic text system. It may not appear
on paper or any other permanent media except as single copies
for personal study. It may not be sold except by the author.
The all rights to the idea contained in the though capsule if
original is retained by the author of the capsule. You are
welcome to use the idea as long as you attribute it to the
author by direct reference in a footnote in whatever you write
concerning that idea. If idea contained in the thought capsule
is not original with the author then direct attribution to the
original author should be made by anyone using the idea.
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 The basic idea of conceptual shareware is the promotion of the
spread of ideas within the electronic network and Bulletin
Board medium by making them accessible, reproducible, and
free, but retaining the copyrights on all external other
mediums, such as printed paper, and for long term storage in
electronic systems. This makes thought capsules ephemera of
the electronic textual medium. The long term archival storage
of the text remains in the hands of the author. You can
request the text from the author at any time if referred to the
thought capsule by another source. The right to publish and
copy on all non-electronic textual media is retained by the
author. The intellectual property rights are retained by the
author. The write to sell the all derived works is retained by
the author. The author is basically lending the thought capsule
to others for a period of less than one year for them to
comment on and react to the contents of the thought capsule.
This is intended to promote the interchange of ideas within
the cyber-thoughtspace while still promoting intellectual
ownership rights.

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 APPENDICES:

 APPENDIX 1 Glossary

   MEME -- a cultural artifact that is easily duplicated and spread.
   THINKNET -- A project to explore deep thought in cybertime.

 APPENDIX 2 Diagram {system independent graphics language code goes here}

 APPENDIX 3 Version History

   Version 1 -- original.

 APPENDIX N ????????

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 The thoughtCapsule is a proposed format for essays sent to the essay
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