Event: THE EDGE LONDON DINNER 2009
Brenda Maddox; Katinka Matson, Edge
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Martin Nowak Master Class
Conversation: Serpentine Gallery ~ Edge: Map Marathon
Deception REPUTATION MANAGEMENT BY NAME RECONFIGURATION. Jean Jaurès apparently once said, “Quand les hommes ne peuvent changer les choses, ils changent les mots.” By mapping old names to new ones, this piece hopes to capture the spirit of that quote as well as some of my research on shame and reputation.
An 1817 British Admiralty map of Kolpos Kallonis, the lagoon in Greece where Aristotle began the study of the biological world. Aristotle proposed that organisms were formed and maintained by their “souls,” by which he meant the topography of their metabolic and regulatory networks. Superimposed within the lagoon, therefore, is a map of the regulatory network of a yeast cell: Aristotle’s vision realized in the 21st C.
