Comments on: Stuck… http://www.epistemographer.com/2003/10/22/stuck/ Mapping knowledge online since 1999 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:38:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: jeremy hunsinger http://www.epistemographer.com/2003/10/22/stuck/comment-page-1/#comment-327 jeremy hunsinger Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.epistemographer.com/?p=78#comment-327 it isn't that people built institutions. people always build institutions... it is the space those institutions occupy, where did that come from? what disappeared, what changed? it is just like the advent of the computer store, a space opened up.... why? there is also a primary story, then there is also the story of the zones of occupation and how those arose as territories in themself, but before i ramble too much.... just where did those storefronts come from and why were they open anyway..... it isn’t that people built institutions. people always build institutions… it is the space those institutions occupy, where did that come from? what disappeared, what changed? it is just like the advent of the computer store, a space opened up…. why? there is also a primary story, then there is also the story of the zones of occupation and how those arose as territories in themself, but before i ramble too much…. just where did those storefronts come from and why were they open anyway…..

]]> By: Epistemographer http://www.epistemographer.com/2003/10/22/stuck/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Epistemographer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.epistemographer.com/?p=78#comment-328 Of course - the problem I'm having is that the first of these two chapters lays out a story for where these stores came from and why they looked the way they did. What I meant by "institutions" in the case of that second chapter is that once the stores were established as individual places (mostly built by individual owners), then the actors involved built broader institutions like franchises/trade organizations/lobbying groups/etc. in order to share knowledge and standardize the business, and in doing so, aggregate their power when dealing with the studios and government. The problem is that I still don't have a foothold into that second argument. I keep turning it over and over, and haven't come up with anything better than "Look! Informal networks were manifested in tangible forms like trade associations" which kinda sucks. Still working on it... Of course – the problem I’m having is that the first of these two chapters lays out a story for where these stores came from and why they looked the way they did. What I meant by “institutions” in the case of that second chapter is that once the stores were established as individual places (mostly built by individual owners), then the actors involved built broader institutions like franchises/trade organizations/lobbying groups/etc. in order to share knowledge and standardize the business, and in doing so, aggregate their power when dealing with the studios and government.

The problem is that I still don’t have a foothold into that second argument. I keep turning it over and over, and haven’t come up with anything better than “Look! Informal networks were manifested in tangible forms like trade associations” which kinda sucks.

Still working on it…

]]> By: jeremy hunsinger http://www.epistemographer.com/2003/10/22/stuck/comment-page-1/#comment-329 jeremy hunsinger Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.epistemographer.com/?p=78#comment-329 so you need to look at warehousing and distribution? logistics? and those pressures? so you need to look at warehousing and distribution? logistics? and those pressures?

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