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"I like books that take on big topics and expertly synthesize understandings from diverse fields. Carpenter deals with the whole world and explores how we can best understand this as an 'ecology of information.' He shows how such an approach guides us to ask new questions about our world."
-- Rick Szostak, University of Alberta, Canada "An all-encompassing attempt to conceptualize unity, diversity, and complexity in contemporary contexts. An important brick in the emerging building of memetics. This project is as ambitious as that of Vernadsky’s Noosphere." -- Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Professor of Philosophy, Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait Preview: https://books.google.com/books?id=p4TBEQAAQBAJ&newbks=0&lpg=PA1990&dq=information%20rhetorics&pg=PA1978#v=onepage&q=information%20rhetorics&f=false Coming soon: "Vernacular and Specialized 'Information': About, for, and as Reality."
'The term “information” is used in many ways – so many ways that it can become meaningless, yet it persists. “Information” has become rhetorically “ideographic” – that is, minimally, it has become a buzzword that is used simply because it is used. Yet there is more to the term and concept than this. Information continues to be used probably because it remains one of, if not, the, best descriptors for the present age, particularly the 20th and now 21st century. This presentation shares a portion of the author’s current book project, Information Rhetorics forthcoming with Routledge. It highlights vernacular and specialized uses of the rhetoric and concept of information in Luciano Floridi’s terms of information being about, for, and as reality. Special attention is given to how information may look or operate across disciplines and domains.' Bennett-Carpenter, B. (March 2026 forthcoming). Zoom presentation to the annual meeting of the Interdisciplinary Studies section, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters, Virtual / Alma College, Michigan. |
AuthorBenjamin Bennett-Carpenter writes philosophy and poetry. Teaches at a public university in North America. Consults/coaches (executive, life, creative). Archives
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