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Re: !Kung: Banking Social Relationships

Simon Edhouse — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:11:12 -0000

...not wanting to anthropomorphize the inanimate.. but perhaps: 'a meme with a mission'?

Re: !Kung: Banking Social Relationships

cgerrish — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:35:20 -0000

McLuhan's idea of probes is very interesting, they aren't personal. A couple of quotes: 'I have no devotion to any of my probes as if they were sacred opinions. I have no proprietary interest in my ideas and no pride of authorship as such. You have to push ideas to an extreme, you have to probe.' 'A good probe is hard to exhaust. It does not surrender everything at first encounter...'

Re: !Kung: Banking Social Relationships

Simon Edhouse — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:05:37 -0000

Cliff, would you class yourself as a kind of "probe" too? (using McLuhan's definition) - If you are, you are perhaps 'probe +' or 'an insightful probe'...