"Once the book becomes electronic or hybrid, the permanence, immutability and
stability typical of physical books is likely to mutate into dynamic, modular, and
participative forms."
"Once the book becomes electronic or hybrid, the permanence, immutability and
stability typical of physical books is likely to mutate into dynamic, modular, and
participative forms."
"Meaning and Mechanism" criticizes the neglect of "meaning" in traditional information theory and proposes that the meaning of language should be understood as the impact of information on the "conditional readiness" of the receiver - that is, how information changes the role of language on behavior and cognition, thus integrating the perspectives of structuralism and operationalism and establishing a unified mechanical process and subjective understanding, emphasizing that meaning is a functional concept, which is reflected in the potential guiding recelver's readiness to deal with future situations. The author uses the analogy of "signal box" and "key" to break the opposition between understanding model.
The book emphasizes that meaning is not embedded in the surface symbols of language,
but is reflected in how it activates the receiver's inner "conditional readiness state". This is
just like hollowing out design - what you see is "emptiness", but the real meaning lies
precisely in the attention, imagination and association guided by these "emptiness".
The hollow form has a "structure", but it only produces "meaning" and "function" when light passes through, eyes look at, fingers touch, and thoughts participate. This is just like what the author said: the mechanical shell of language (sound waves, words) itself has no meaning, the meaning lies in what kind of psychological mechanism it triggers.
The book says that "meaning" is reflected in the selective function - a piece of information chooses a certain "readiness state” in the receiver's mind. Hollowing itself is an artistic act of "deleting some content to highlight others", which is essentially "selective presentation", which perfectly echoes the author's "selective function" theory.
Hollowout blurs the boundaries between "real" and "empty", just line. distinguished. The form of your work is challenging this boundary "consciousness” is meaningful, but in fact they are not clearly as the author questions: we think "machinery" is meaningless and
As the book says, meaning is not determined unilaterally by the speaker, but is "activated" by the receiver based on his or her own state and experience. The hollowed-out form requires the audience to "complete", "imagine" or "travel through", which just reflects the process of "meaning being generated in the reader/viewer's mind".
basically I spent the prototype design in the process of typesetting and designing each because I was worried that if these two steps were separated, it would not be a whale. So In fact, I designed the overall layout of the page and the binding of the book simultaneously, page at the same time.
