Abstract
As linguistic activity is embedded within a broader context of cultural life, the discussion in this chapter naturally moves on to investigating the cubic properties of culture. The chapter addresses, at a general level, some underlying mechanisms which form a human cultural activity understood as choice cube and which manifest in their output, whether symbolic, spiritual, or material, thus becoming an element of communal heritage. Suppose choice, understood as a dynamic cube implied by the consequences of the timeline governed by the second law of thermodynamics, is an essential aspect of human action. In that case, it is only a matter of logic to relate such an understanding of choice to the broader concept of culture and its underpinning mechanisms. The chapter closes with a set of general implications for modelling human cultural activity through the prism of cubic topology.
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Cf. Kövecses (2015, pp. 74–75): ‘Meaning making is a cooperative enterprise (linguistic or otherwise) that always takes place in a large set of contexts (ranging from immediate to background) and that occurs with varying degrees of success. People who can successfully participate in this kind of meaning making can be said to belong to the same culture. Spectacular cases of unsuccessful participation in joint meaning making are called “culture shock”.’
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necker_cube , accessed on 13 May 2018
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necker_cube , accessed on 13 May 2018
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For more on Cubism as an art movement see http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/cubism, accessed on 12 July 2018 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism, accessed on 3 July 2018
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMNZ-v07Nk0&t=65s, accessed on 12 July 2018.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedcubing, accessed on 12 July 2018.
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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Cube+culture, accessed on 13 July 2018.
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http://www.educationcubes.com, accessed on 27 August 2018.
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https://inforef.be/pages/telecharger/Guidelines_Teachers_Educational_tool.pdf accessed on 27 August 2018.
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Kuźniak, M. (2021). Culture, Geometry, and Choice. In: The Geometry of Choice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78655-7_6
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