Todays agenda:

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Foundations of metaphor Emergent Functions of
Metaphor--Mon Aug 4 2008

• Todays agenda
• Anamorphosis and technical clarity
• Community site (continued)

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Foundations of metaphor Emergent Functions of
Metaphor--Mon Aug 4, 2008

• Unification
• Sudden alignment between antithetical elements
  (easily recognized in comic rejoinders).
• Example Voltaire on Rousseaus Ode to
  Posterity This poem will not reach its
  destination.
• Key trait two terms united through reference to
  a third position (with the third position issuing
  from an extrinsic point of origin).

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Foundations of metaphor Emergent Functions of
Metaphor--Mon Aug 4, 2008

• Unification ? anamorphosis
• Zizek Anamorphosis concerns the centrality of
  this same process to everyday life.
• Highsmiths Black House The mens world
  resides in the gap between the episodes which
  once took place at the house and the forbidden
  status of the house itself in the here-and-now.
  (The house itself amounts to the staging area for
  an extrinsic or precluded point of view.)

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Foundations of metaphorEmergent Functions of
MetaphorMon Aug 4, 2008

• Case study Fire Management at HOSP
• http//www.nps.gov/hosp/parkmgmt/upload/HOSP_FMP.p
  df
• Park supervisors were concerned primarily with
  protection of historical bathhouses.
• Fire ecologists were concerned with the unnatural
  buildup of fuels within Park boundaries.
• Successful argument Yes, protection of the
  bathhouses is our priority, and this goal has
  been pursued in the past through aggressive
  protection. But fire exclusion itself can now be
  seen to threaten the health of geothermal
  activity.

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Foundations of metaphorEmergent Functions of
MetaphorMon Aug 4

• Anamorphosis and everyday experience
• The premise of conceptual blending shows the
  primacy of a certain incursion (with or without
  the bully). The attackers taunt is always
  extrinsic to its target domain---yet through an
  effective response, the taunt itself reveals the
  depth of the victims position.
• The theory of anamorphosis suggests the necessity
  of this process to all coherent experience.
• Example Informatics research on perverse
  conversational interface (Susan Herring on
  shooter games, Flickr, Twitter, Interactive
  Television, etc.).