representations as devices to think with

Home Syllabus E-mail Class E-mail Craig Resources Journal Discussion Assignments Schedule January February March April May	Representations as Devices to Think with Four visions of Duluth and a question	The literary critic I. A. Richards once said, "A book is a machine to think with." In fact, any representational space or language is not just a neutral container for information or a decorative style, but is a device to think with.
	1. Duluth from orbit <http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/>	2. Duluth from mapquest.com
	3. Duluth from the Web <http://www.duluth.com/>	4. Duluth from Qwest
	Is George Mahlberg's composite image "In-A-Gadda-Da-Oswald" a machine to think with? What ideas or contexts does the image bring together which are normally separated? Does this surprising juxtaposition or mingling suggest to you a line of thought?

Representations as Devices to Think with