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Re: [NABOKOV-L] Nabokovian Performers? ( a query)]
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Simon Rowberry [ to JM's "I was browsing thru an article about Vannevar Bush's original project,named "Memex," and its development, almost twenty years later, by Theodor Holm Nelson and Andries van Dam ( Project "Xanadu") in the field of technology"] : It's worth noting that Ted Nelson gained permission to use Pale Fire for a hypertext demonstration in the late 1960s at Brown University, although the idea was rejected by his co-workers, if I recall correctly.
JM: Amazing and precious information!
It's such a pity that most Nabokovians shun Freud and his pioneering work on "overdetermination and nodal points" ("The Interpretation of Dreams," where we find a lot more besides the off-hand Nabokovian "umbrella"), for I understand that the manifest content of a "dream", such as his novel "Ada," carries imagetic and verbal seeds of distinct and independent, most often unconscious "causal" chains, related to the oscillating drift of some of its sentences, even chapters ( these might next open into a kind of "sub-aquatic" hypertext...)
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btw: Intrigued by the Latin words "Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides," ("now you can see, now you can't") which I read today, I checked them to reach, through wiki, "The Invisible College,"[...] "a precursor to the Royal Society of the United Kingdom. It consisted of a group of natural philosophers (scientists) including Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, John Wallis, John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren and William Petty. In letters in 1646 and 1647, Boyle refers to "our invisible college" or "our philosophical college". The society's common theme was to acquire knowledge through experimental investigation.In its turn the "Hartlibians", a circle of people around Samuel Hartlib, were the precursors to the Invisible College...The idea of an invisible college became influential in seventeenth century Europe, in particular, in the form of a network of savants or intellectuals exchanging ideas. This is an alternative model to that of the learned journal, dominant in the nineteenth century. The invisible college idea is exemplified by the network of astronomers, professors, mathematicians, and natural philosophers in 16th century Europe. Men such as Johannes Kepler, Georg Joachim Rheticus, John Dee and Tycho Brahe passed information and ideas to each other in an invisible college. One of the most common methods used to communicate was through marginalia, annotations written in personal copies of books that were loaned, given, or sold...The term now refers mainly to the free transfer of thought and technical expertise, usually carried out without the establishment of designated facilities or institutional authority, spread by a loosely connected system of word-of-mouth referral or localized bulletin-board system, and supported through barter (i.e. trade of knowledge or services) or apprenticeship...In the arts and humanities, a field of scholarly inquiry that virtually originated as an invisible college is the study of film history...The invisible college is akin to the old guild system, yet holds no sway in recognized scholastic, technical or political circles...Members of an invisible college are often today called independent scholars. In short, the invisible college is a grassroots educational system. The concept of invisible college was developed in the sociology of science by Diane Crane (1972) building on Derek J. de Solla Price's work on citation networks. It is related, but significantly different, from other concepts of expert communities, such as 'Epistemic communities' (Haas, 1992) or Community of Practice (Wenger, 1998). Recently, the concept was applied to the global network of communications among scientists by Caroline S. Wagner in 'The New Invisible College: Science for Development.' (Brookings 2008) It was also referred to Clay Shirky's book Cognitive Surplus."
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JM: Amazing and precious information!
It's such a pity that most Nabokovians shun Freud and his pioneering work on "overdetermination and nodal points" ("The Interpretation of Dreams," where we find a lot more besides the off-hand Nabokovian "umbrella"), for I understand that the manifest content of a "dream", such as his novel "Ada," carries imagetic and verbal seeds of distinct and independent, most often unconscious "causal" chains, related to the oscillating drift of some of its sentences, even chapters ( these might next open into a kind of "sub-aquatic" hypertext...)
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btw: Intrigued by the Latin words "Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides," ("now you can see, now you can't") which I read today, I checked them to reach, through wiki, "The Invisible College,"[...] "a precursor to the Royal Society of the United Kingdom. It consisted of a group of natural philosophers (scientists) including Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, John Wallis, John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren and William Petty. In letters in 1646 and 1647, Boyle refers to "our invisible college" or "our philosophical college". The society's common theme was to acquire knowledge through experimental investigation.In its turn the "Hartlibians", a circle of people around Samuel Hartlib, were the precursors to the Invisible College...The idea of an invisible college became influential in seventeenth century Europe, in particular, in the form of a network of savants or intellectuals exchanging ideas. This is an alternative model to that of the learned journal, dominant in the nineteenth century. The invisible college idea is exemplified by the network of astronomers, professors, mathematicians, and natural philosophers in 16th century Europe. Men such as Johannes Kepler, Georg Joachim Rheticus, John Dee and Tycho Brahe passed information and ideas to each other in an invisible college. One of the most common methods used to communicate was through marginalia, annotations written in personal copies of books that were loaned, given, or sold...The term now refers mainly to the free transfer of thought and technical expertise, usually carried out without the establishment of designated facilities or institutional authority, spread by a loosely connected system of word-of-mouth referral or localized bulletin-board system, and supported through barter (i.e. trade of knowledge or services) or apprenticeship...In the arts and humanities, a field of scholarly inquiry that virtually originated as an invisible college is the study of film history...The invisible college is akin to the old guild system, yet holds no sway in recognized scholastic, technical or political circles...Members of an invisible college are often today called independent scholars. In short, the invisible college is a grassroots educational system. The concept of invisible college was developed in the sociology of science by Diane Crane (1972) building on Derek J. de Solla Price's work on citation networks. It is related, but significantly different, from other concepts of expert communities, such as 'Epistemic communities' (Haas, 1992) or Community of Practice (Wenger, 1998). Recently, the concept was applied to the global network of communications among scientists by Caroline S. Wagner in 'The New Invisible College: Science for Development.' (Brookings 2008) It was also referred to Clay Shirky's book Cognitive Surplus."
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