Focusing on the steps that literally and metaphorically guide us today, this paper takes walking as its main subject establishes it theoretically a form of subversive bodily movement. If contemporary sociological humanistic treatments show everyday practice has not been completely overlooked, gap opens at level thinking in relation to dominant social order spatial temporal manifestations. As we...

The people who make algorithmic recommender systems want apparently incompatible things: they pride themselves on the scale at which their software works, but also to treat materials and users with care. Care are commonly understood as contradictory goals: be careful is work small scale, while working large requires abandoning concerns of Drawing together anthropological care this article analy...

This introductory essay revisits the multidimensionality of river conceived as a system "communicating vessels," both literally and metaphorically. Drawing upon fine arts, poetry, biology, philosophy, argument organizing this text presents non-human, albeit often anthropomorphized, subjectivity, serves to remind reader universality neverending flow essence thought. Moored tides, humankind depen...

This paper explores the materiality of skin as it is figured and re-figured through sunburn suntanning descriptions in nineteenth-century culture. In literary representations, suntanned white, British subjects depicted a rich array terminology attending not only to transformation colour but also surface texture skin. article identifies that, amid changing ideas about embodiment self within skin...

The development of natural language interfaces to Artificial Intelligence systems is dependent on the representation of knowledge. A major impediment to building such systems has been the difficulty in adding sufficient linguistic and conceptual knowledge to extend and adapt their capabilities. This difficulty has been apparent in systems which perform the task of language production, i. e. the...

This essay critiques and creates metaphoric genetic rhetoric by examining metaphors for genes used by representatives of the lay American public. We assess these metaphors with a new rhetorical orientation that we developed by building onto work by Robert Ivie and social scientific qualitative studies of audiences. Specifically, our analysis reveals three themes of genetic metaphors, with the f...

In this paper we discuss some interface design concepts for supporting and enhancing collaborative creativity in multi-user interactive environments. We focus on the design of affordances for direct manipulation and collaboration on table-top displays. As an application of our concepts, we introduce the EnLighTable, an appliance for creative teamwork in the selection of pictures and layout desi...

Spatializations are computer visualizations in which nonspatial information is depicted spatially. Spatializations of large databases commonly use distance as a metaphor to depict semantic (nonspatial) similarities among data items. By analogy to the “first law of geography”, which states that closer things tend to be more similar, we propose a “first law of cognitive geography,” which states t...

We assume that the brain is some kind of a computer and look at operations implied by the figurative use of language. Figurative language is pervasive, bypasses the literal meaning of what is said and is interpreted metaphorically or by analogy. Such an interpretation calls for a mapping in concept space, leading us to speculate about the nature of concept space in terms of readily computable m...

We thank Nicholas Evans for his comments (1). There has been much recent discussion of how best to balance the public health needs of mitigating the impact of emerging infectious diseases with the concerns of biosafety and biosecurity that dual-use research entails (2–4). In our recent article (5), we sought to inform this discussion from the perspective of the dynamic nature of influenza virus...