I think about Bruce Sterling's "spime" in this context, and I see it as clearly connected to the tasks of the humanities and rhetoric and composition.— digital digs
Composers in spime networks will certainly recognize that the compositional process is not "inside."— digital digs
Could you explain more about what you term "onto" and "ontome" and how this differs from spimes and spime wrangling?— UgoTrade
I guess I was looking for words that would do two things: allow us to distinguish between the instantiation and the class, and leave us with a better word than "spime."— UgoTrade
To my mind, at least two more things would need to happen before we could comfortably think of it a "context-aware spime wrangler."— UgoTrade

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