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Author: Matthew Fuller
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Photo Credit: Domen Pal / Aksioma
Understanding meaning, in the sense historically understood by the arts and humanities, is to do with relays of interpretation. An idea or a disposition may travel from person to person, from a painting to a dance, from a concept to a gesture, and onwards in intersecting ripples of association and reworking.
The formation of perception and of the formulation of values have, in the present world, also become increasingly understood to have significance in an ecological sense: one to do with the transfer of nutrients, energies and the shaping of possibilities in the interplay of lifeforms.
In parallel to this growth of understanding, computing becomes a crucial site for the staging and calculation of relays of interpretation. The cultures of computing weave into and affect many other aspects of life with their own kind of relays. As they gain power, questions arise.
Computing technology is scrutinised not only for its effects on societal values and processes, it is also beginning to be understood in terms of its costs in ecological terms.
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