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The Stuff of Thought

  • June 25th, 2010
  • Posted in Reading

One critical review of Steven Pinker’s populist science book The Stuff of Thought describes how the title “Things the Mind Does” might be more fitting. The Stuff of Thought is not a neuroscience account of the relation between our crinkled grey matter, and the phenomena we call thinking. Instead Pinker’s linguistic vantage point looks at [ READ MORE ]

Metaphorically Speaking

  • March 6th, 2010
  • Posted in Reading . Thoughts

In 1980 George Lakoff and Gregg Johnson published Metaphors We Live By. The book made the case that most of our thinking is largely metaphorical in nature; that we directly apply our understanding of the less abstract to the more abstract. Their description of metaphoric language as reflective of a thinking mind irrevocably situated in [ READ MORE ]

Of Modes and Metaphors

  • January 25th, 2010
  • Posted in Reading . Thoughts

In The Human Interface, Jef Raskin hammers on one particular message; Modes result in mode errors, and must be eliminated wherever possible. Along with this he argues that any gesture must retain the same meaning (or effect) in as many places as possible, but preferably, in all places. This anti-modality view is built on the [ READ MORE ]

Ian Bellomy...

...is a graduate Interactive Design and Game Development student at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He's diligently engaged in a long standing and self destructive attempt to make sense out of the make believe land of metaphor beyond the computer screen.
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