Dear Luiz,

Yes it seems very interesting, do you have a reference to where Chomsky writes about logotechnics? Well it looks like you have almost the same interest as I have. But I am using systems theory (Luhmann) and the media theory (Innis, McLuhan, Ong, Eisenstein, Meyrowitz and Finnemann) in a theory of social systems and media theory - I differentiates between perception media, media of reproduction and technological media for communication (from oral language to digital media). In my theory of the social evolution I see the technologically media for communication as the variant giving the scope for the handling of complexity in time and space. Look at my paper: "Medium Theory and Social Systems" http://home16.inet.tele.dk/jesper_t/mt_sosy.pdf

Luiz Carlos Baptista wrote:

Hi all,

I'm new on the list. I have recently finished my PhD in Communications at Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal. My PhD is about Erving Goffman's concept of "frame" and its relations to cognition and the formal features of human interaction. Parts of my research have been summarized in an article, "Framing and Cognition", in the book "Goffman's Legacy", published in the US by Rowman & Littlefield.

At the moment, my research interests include what I call "logotechnics" or "linguistic technologies": the development of systems which reproduce what, according to Noam Chomsky, is the most important characteristic of human language, its "discrete infinity" (the production of an infinite number of structures by the recursive combination of a finite number of elements).

Each "logotechnique" could be understood as a set of procedures for developing specific kinds of "cognitive artifacts". Writing would be the fundamental "logotechnique", giving rise to printing (its mechanization) and computing (its automatization).

There are many working with social epochs connected to communication media or with historical societies based on different media matrixs fx McLuhan, Meyrowitz and Finnemann

I believe a proper understanding of the latter must take into account the effects of the former. For instance, as regards the Internet and the spread of digital media, the so-called "digital revolution" is, in a sense, the process of "generalization of writing" - since, for the first time, almost every form of human representation can be "translated" to digital form through programs written, in the last instance, in binary code.

This is exactly what Finnemann says in: Finnemann, Niels Ole 1997. Modernity Modernised - The Cultural Impact of Computeriation. In Mayer. Paul A. 1999. Computer Media and Communication. Oxford uni. Press GB p.141-160.

I hope this stuff makes sense to you. Anyway, it's still in an earlier phase, open to comments, criticisms and developments. Best regards,

Best Regards

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