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In the Mood for Metaphor

In the Mood for Metaphor. Kouichi Kishida SRA-KTL k2@sra.co.jp. World-Making. Countless worlds are made by using symbols!? The many stuffs – matter, energy, waves, phenomena – that worlds are made of are made along with the worlds. But made from what?

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In the Mood for Metaphor

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  1. In the Mood forMetaphor Kouichi Kishida SRA-KTL k2@sra.co.jp

  2. World-Making • Countless worlds are made by using symbols!? • The many stuffs – matter, energy, waves, phenomena – that worlds are made of are made along with the worlds. But made from what? • Not from nothing, after all, but from other worlds. • World-making as we know it always starts from worlds already on hands; the making is remaking. - Nelson Goodman

  3. Software Development • Is a kind of ‘world-making’ activity. - In what sense are there many worlds? - What are worlds made of? - How are they made? - What role do symbols play in the process of making?

  4. System? • Sy + stem • Sy = together. eg: symphony = mix sounds together • stem = histanai (v) = to place • System = To place things together. Relationship among components is very important.

  5. Metaphor • An expression which describes a person or object in a literary way by referring to something that is considered to possess similar characteristics to the person or object you are trying to describe. 'The mind is an ocean' and 'the city is a jungle' are both metaphors. Cambridge Online Dictionary

  6. Poetry • Poets are trying to create a new metaphor, which defines a surprising relationship between words and their meanings. • ‘Dead metaphor’ = Daily language: existing world • ‘Poetic metaphor’ = Brave new world

  7. Ocean Shuntaro Tanigawa (Japanese poet) - Oh, WORDS Please do not block in between I and the ocean!

  8. The Ceiling Suppose the Ceiling went Outside And then caught Cold and Up and Died? The only Thing we'd have for Proof That he was Gone, would be the Roof; I think it would be Most Revealing To find out how the Ceiling's Feeling. Theodore Roethke (1908-63)

  9. Lessons Learned • Can you imagine what kind of ‘feeling’ a ‘ceiling’ will have? • Even a simple framework (of design) such as ‘rhyme’ is useful to create a new relationship between words.

  10. Meta-Poem • The 24 Modes of Poetry by Sikong Tu (837-908) • A Set of ‘Meta-Poems’, which analyze modes and styles of poems. • It was considered as a meta-design for Chinese classic poetry. • Each poem has a same format: * * * *, * * * *, * * * *. * * * *, * * * *, * * * *. * * * *, * * * *, * * * *.

  11. Meta-Program? • Structured programming has aimed to create standard framework for programs in some application domain (Jackson, Warnier and Kishida’s work in late 1960s). • Today’s design pattern movement is also aiming same kind of goals.

  12. Meta-Design • Framework for creating new metaphor, namely to find out new relationship among components of a system (poems, programs, etc.). • It is considered as a ‘meta-metaphor’.

  13. Meta-Painting ? • Joseph Albers (1888-1976) - Bauhaus (1920-33) - Black Mountain College (1933-50) Bob Rauschenberg was one of his students - ‘Homage to the Square’ series are a kind of meta-painting analyzing the role of colors in painting.

  14. My Own Meta-painting

  15. ‘City’ Metaphor forOpen Source Software • Physical Nodes on the Internet are Closed Cities protected by Firewalls • Open Source Software is a Virtual Free City located outside of the FireWall

  16. Various Facilities ofFree City • Temple Cultural Center of the City • Bazaar Free Exchange Market within City • Karavansaray Lodging and Transporting Facility • Bagh Mixture of Lodging and Market located outside of City Wall

  17. Facilities ofOpen Source City • Source Code Temple: as a Center of the City • News Group Bazaar: for Information Exchange • Mailing List Karavansaray: for More Detailed Technical Exchange • Satellite Projects Bagh: Located Outside

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