Angeletics - A Message Theory

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Angeletics - A Message Theory

• Rafael Capurro
• Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (HdM)
• www.capurro.de

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Introduction

• Gr. angelía message
• Angeletics and angelology
• Angeletics in a narrow sense
• Angeletics in a wider sense
• Message and information
• informatio moulding matter, moulding the mind

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I. Angeletics as an interdisciplinary theory

• Shannons theory of message transmission (1948)
• The concept of message sender-dependent, new,
  relevant, media/messenger, selection
• Luhmanns concepts of message (Mitteilung),
  information (Information) and understanding
  (Verstehen)

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I. Angeletics as an interdisciplinary...

• An ideal situation
• a sender addresses a receiver, sending him/her a
  message that is new and relevant,
• a messenger brings the message undistorted to the
  receiver,
• a receiver reserves judgement, based on a process
  of interpretation, about whether the message is
  true or not.

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I. Angeletics as an interdisciplinary...

• The sender should follow the principle of
  respect
• The messenger should follow the principle of
  faithfulness
• The receiver should follow the principle of
  reservation

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I. Angeletics as an interdisciplinary...

• Flussers communicology
• dialogical goal creation of new information
• discursive goal distribution of information
• A message society
• Angeletics and hermeneutics
• Mediatic nihilism or a time of empty angels
• Nietzsches Dysangelium

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II. Angeletics at the Crossroad of Hermeneutics
and Biology

• DNA-messages and the postal paradigm
• Weizsäckers view of information back to idea
  and morphe (Plato, Aristotle)
• Koichiro Matsunos young fellow
• What does it mean to in-form a cell?
• Messages and time the internal and the external
  perspective

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II. Angeletics at the Crossroad...

• Heideggers existential hermeneutics or the
  pragmatic turn in epistemology
• Pears or apples?
• What does it mean being addressed by
  something?
• Hermeneutic or practical understanding (know
  how) and theoretical interpretation (know that)

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II. Angeletics at the Crossroad...

• Change-over
• situation -gt pre-understanding (need) -gt choice
  -gt situation...
• message -gt release mechanism -gt response -gt
  message...
• know how -gt breakdown -gt interpretation -gt know
  that -gt ...
• Weizsäckers objectivised semantics

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II. Angeletics at the Crossroad...

• Implicit and explicit understanding
• What is is?
• Heideggers being-in-the-world as
  world-forming
• world-poor the own richness of openness of
  living beings
• the horizon of choices

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II. Angeletics at the Crossroad...

• Jerry Chandler and the multiple dynamics of
  form organic communication can admit error in
  the process of generating a message, in the
  process of transmitting the message or in the
  process of responding to the message.
• form-as-message ontology and/as epistemology

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Conclusion

• Hierarchies of communication
• Message as a second order category
• Senders and receivers
• The hermeneutic circle as an angeletic process
• If the medium is the message McLuhan what is a
  message?