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426:'Tinkering' is surely a misleading translation of 'bricolage' in the sense of putting bits and pieces together to create something new. I'm not quite sure what the best translation would be here, but 'tinkering' suggests messing around with something, not always in a good way (it often comes close to 'tampering' - one definition reads 'attempting to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way', as in 'I wish he'd stop tinkering with the car - if it ain't broke, don't fix it!'). Perhaps 'cobbling together' or 'patching together' come closest, but dictionaries insist on putting 'tinkering' first, probably because they're determined to find one brief, all-purpose translation (which simply doesn't exist). 243: 222: 253: 191: 345: 327: 355: 429:'Bricolage' generally sounds positive, rough-and-ready but not quick-and-dirty (it's the normal French word for 'DIY', and is used on shop signs), whereas 'tinkering' generally doesn't (rather than putting things together, it suggests taking them apart without really knowing how to put them back together). 498:
I have added a link to an article by PZ Myers. I am aware that there is some discussion on Myers' notability for Knowledge purposes. I have no opinion on this, but the article seems like a useful source for a discussion of bricolage in biology.
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I don't agree with the opening definition "A bricoleur is a person who creates things from scratch" since this is contradicted by the rest of the article. I have changed it to "A bricoleur is a person who creates things from existing
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I have moved the recently-added section on Sherry Turkle from the Science section to the Information Technology section, since Turkle's usage seems to be a continuation/development of Ciborra's usage. --
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Sleeve artwork for the Amon Tobin album of the same name does attribute a quote about Bricolage to Strauss, but it's not in the current article. Can't find it in the history either.
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That isn't one of Bungie's websites (bungie.com or bungie.net), that's bungie.org, the most popular Bungie fansites on the net to be sure, but not ACTUALLY part of Bungie.
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Is "Bricolur" correct spelling? That's how it was spelled in Marathon (see the Computer Game addition) but I didn't see this spelling anywhere else.
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Who gives a rat's arse about Amon Tobin? Levi-Strauss is the most obvious originator for this term as we now konw it. Read 'The Savage Mind'.
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I would imagine that Derrida and his followers would be happy to term a bricolage that is respectful of the items that it seeks to include. —
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A quick internet search for Levi-Strauss and bricolage produces loads of material, including some quotes from Levi-Strauss about bricolage.
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Actually, according to Bungie's website wherein they have the screens from the game they show the spelling as "bricoleur."
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Someone has just deleted the following assertion without explanation: "The term was coined by French anthropologist
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It isn't a screenshot, it's a carefully coded reproduction of the games' original terminal system in HTML.
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I have grouped some of the topics together, which I think should improve readability.--
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I think you have a point there. Knowledge rules require that you find a
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I noticed that the Marathon reference is the seventh one, perfect touch.
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French Wiktionary says that bricoler is the verb, bricoleur the nown
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