http://mondotheque.be
Library: https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#metadata=Fathers
Annotated selection: http://activearchives.org/aaa/tags/Fathers_of_the_internet (sporadically available)
Raw: http://activearchives.org/aaa/tags/Fathers
Files: https://gitorious.org/fathers-of-the-internet
Contributions by Michel Cleempoel, Yves Bernard, Martino M, Natacha Roussel, Renee Turner, Jara Rocha, Seda Guerses, Marcell Mars, Robert M. Ochshorn, Dusan Barok, Alexia de Visscher, Femke Snelting
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1. With the help of Dusan Barok (Monoskop) I started to look into the actual structure of the Universal Decimal Classification and it is fascinating to see the way he thought connections. What if we tried to re-materialize this structure in the context of a semantic wiki? It would not be about resurrecting UDC litterally but somehow to understand it's intentions and potential through poetic research. I am of course thinking about Tagging Matters, early Active Archives thinking and our discussions on RDF. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0002/000250/025055eo.pdf -> pages 17-60
2. The collection of 24.000 image squares that R.O. scraped from the Mundaneum collection on Google Institute still fascinates me and I would love to look at it with you to see if we could find a way to publish them on this wiki in a way that makes sense. I am wondering about their scale and how to locate/contextualize them, possibly without
restoring them to downloadable large-scale images.
3. The Fathers of the internet story (I re-titled it: 'We don't live in that kind of world') is built around many videos, subtitled in both French and English. But I still have not found a way to publish the material on-line. I might have found ways by the time we meet (I'll spend most of my time in January on that), but it would be very useful for me if we
could look at how to deal with it in the context of Mondotheque.
4. I am preparing an interview with colleague Dries Moreels, now 'head of digital innovations' at the Ghent Boekentoren. Before he started to work there (2008), Boekentoren signed a 7 year collaboration agreement (under NDA) with Google. Dries is now responsible for executing the agreement that is about to expire and is interested in a conversation.
5. Otlet In Brussels. Rework the notes from the Otlet Tour into a tourguide, to trace Otlet and the Mundaneum through Brussels
6. Combine image archive with Feed To Be Fed
mondotheque.be
De Belgische universalist en documentalist Paul Otlet stierf in 1944 als een gedesillusioneerd man. Tijdens zijn leven had hij Het Mundaneum, een encyclopedisch overzicht van de menselijke kennis dat “geleidelijk een permanente en volledige weergave van de hele wereld zou vormen” slechts gedeeltelijk kunnen realiseren. Terwijl Otlet op dit moment wordt herontdekt als 'een grondlegger van het Internet', heeft Google de overblijfselen van zijn archief in Bergen geadopteerd. Bergen is behalve de geboortestad van ex-premier Elio Di Rupo, ook gunstig gelegen naast een van de grootste datacenters van Google in Europa.
Mondotheque was de imaginaire machine die Paul Otlet bedacht om informatie te bewaren, te classificeren en te verspreiden. De website mondotheque.be laat zich door het werk van Otlet inspireren om kritisch te kijken naar de manier waarop kennis vandaag de dag wordt beheerd en verspreid. Naast poetische experimenten met het 20e eeuwse Universeel Decimaal Systeem in de context van Het Semantisch Web van nu, een wandelroute door Brussel waarin we de zwerftocht van Het Mundaneum op de voet volgen en een exploratie van de omvangrijke en belangwekkende collectie digitale documenten die exclusief op een commerciele site wordt aangeboden, worden op de site de recente toenaderingen tussen de internet gigant, lokale overheden en Het Mundaneum in kaart gebracht.
De site is een voorbereiding op een zomerse interventie in het kader van Mons 2015. Met bijdragen van Nicolas Maleve, Michael Murtaugh, Dick Reckard, Natacha Roussel, Alexia De Visscher, Femke Snelting, Dusan Barok, Marcell Mars en vele anderen.
how to download Google Art and why http://www.jurablogs.com/go/google-art-project-wirklich-offene-museum
marshall plan: http://www.marx.be/fr/content/le-plan-marshall-la-recette-n%C3%A9olib%C3%A9rale-wallonne#_ftnref54
google for government http://www.youtube.com/yt/government101/
html5 subtitles http://www.storiesinflight.com/js_videosub/index.html#code
http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/dads-tech
UDC
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001372/137244fo.pdf
http://www.udcc.org/udcsummary/php/index.php?lang=en&pr=Y
As it turned out, sharing was not broken. Sharing was working fine and dandy, Google just wasn’t part of it. People were sharing all around us and seemed quite happy. A user exodus from Facebook never materialized. I couldn’t even get my own teenage daughter to look at Google+ twice, “social isn’t a product,” she told me after I gave her a demo, “social is people and the people are on Facebook.”
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jw_on_tech/archive/2012/03/13/why-i-left-google.aspx
http://www.webcontentspinning.com/a-la-memoire-souillee-de-paul-otlet-par-son-propre-mundaneum-et-google/
Aymeric: define cultural freedom in the age of digital openness http://hz-journal.org/n19/mansoux.html
What is this book: "le mundaneum: Google de papier JP Deplus, 2010" ?
introductie van Di Rupo: Internet in Belgie http://lib.ugent.be/catalog/rug01:000374264
librarians are last basion of non-commercial public space
Shinjoung Yeo and James Jacobs - first sale doctrine, does not work for digital content
not selling but licensing info, libraries are renting info
https://soundcloud.com/10th-floor/mayday-rooms-discussion-with
Opening up the gates guarding cultural reservoirs is a first step, as Google tries to reconfigure cultural spaces for incorporation into its evolving business of information. The next step, also ongoing, is to wrap up these newly-opened spaces with glittering technologies that combine convenience, efficiency and newness. The distinctive technical feature of Google’s cultural project is that users are able to zoom in and out on paintings and sculptures, to see even the finest brushstrokes and to virtually stroll through museums. The technology that powers this “new and improved” art experience – “Street View” – supplements CIA-based satellite and geospatial imaging programs that Google acquired in 2004, and which are embedded in its Google Earth and Google Maps services.
Shinjoung Yeo
http://www.dwb.be/content/de-onstilbare-informatiehonger-van-google-books
Document om te (proberen) te vinden:
- Overeenkomst Mundaneum met Google (Maart 2012)
- Overeenkomst Boekentoren met Google (2007)
- De overdracht van het Mundaneum van Brussel naar Bergen
"Het principe dat archieven moeten worden bijeengehouden per archiefvormende organisatie"
http://arch.arch.be/content/view/222/135/lang,nl_BE/
Dries Moreels:
We hebben een contract van 7 jaar; daarna mogen we doen wat we willen. Gedurende die 7 jaar scant Google alles voor ons; wij krijgen toegang tot de files (infrastructuur verantwoordelijkheid Boekentoren) en tekst bestanden. Restricties: we mogen geen eigen interface bouwen, en gebruikers die via Google books onze boeken terugvinden krijgen geen toegang tot het tekstmateriaal. We mogen ook de data niet en masse doorsluizen (verkopen?) naar andere organisaties.
Het is een geode deal; duidelijk. Er zijn erger voorbeelden van publiek-private samenwerkingen waar niets beschikbaar wordt gemaakt (verwijst naar Barbara van Dijk case).
Cultural institute dat is mist; Google books dat zijn professionals (ie een rij advocaten)
Ik zie het probleem niet - de boeken zijn gratis zoekbaar; 250.000 boeken worden elk jaar op z'n minst een keer geraadpleegd; daar doe je het toch voor?
http://www.boekentoren.be/boekentoren_mod2_EN.aspx?PageId=371
And even though we had an idea, it was Google Books' digitization project that revealed how extraordinary the University's historical collection really is, as was recently illustrated yet again during the research project that was at the basis of the exhibition Piranesi, the Ghent University's print collection.
http://www.boekentoren.be/boekentoren_mod2_EN.aspx?PageId=371
Partnerschap: vrijdag 25 mei 2007 + 7 jaar
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/47696/google-gaat-bibliotheek-ugent-online-beschikbaar-maken.html
Het partnerschap is een mooi voorbeeld van [...] ons innovatiebeleid, namelijk een samenwerking tussen private en publieke partners', aldus de minister van Wetenschap en Innovatie.
"Alleen boeken die ouder zijn dan zeventig jaar worden ingescand."
Waarom tekst niet beschikbaar? Omfloerste vorm van DRM (hoe kun je uitgevers overtuigen beschikbaar te maken en niet Google/Boekentoren)
Commentaar:
Wat een vreemd beleid, wtf heeft het met innovatie te maken?!
Verder zijn deze boeken eigendom van de wereld, dat ze nu eindelijk bevreid worden is een goede zaak. Ik hoop dat Google dan ook zo vriendelijk is om een kopie naar Project Gutenberg te sturen.
Terugtrekkende overheid
David Garcia: http://new-tactical-research.co.uk/blog/re-discover-language-politics/
From communications to vice-director: Delphine Jenart
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webhistory/2012Oct/0006.html
http://www.webdirections.org/history/
An European project: From industrial heartland to Internet age
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USeMTSCKevI
http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.be/2013/12/joining-belgium-and-finland-around-data.html
https://plus.google.com/photos/104469633855701266551/albums/5999944713275609729
Google + jobs in The Netherlands:
http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/nieuws/2014/09/23/google-zorgt-voor-nieuwe-banen-in-groningen.html
"De Nederlandse overheid is actief betrokken geweest bij de keuze van Google voor Nederland. Onder andere het Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) en de Noordelijke Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (NOM) hebben zich ingespannen voor de komst van het internetbedrijf. Begin 2016 kan het centrum in gebruik genomen worden."
http://stacktivism.com/
http://www.telemb.be/face-a-vous-saint-ghislain-le-data-center-de-google_doudou_11223.html
http://www.zorgloob.com/
lu ceci: sur http://www.lalibre.be/culture/politique/les-enjeux-explosifs-de-la-culture-53ac30e33570c0e743438e61
(réservé aux abonnés, je vous mets la conclusion...)
Les Enjeux Eplosifs de la Culture...
...
Mons 2015 pose une autre question. *La FWB s'est engagée à verser en 2015 10 millions d'euros en plus* et non plus 3 ou 4 millions comme les années précédentes.
On sera donc devant un mur : payer Mons 2015, décider sur les demandes urgentes de contrats-programme des compagnies que les non-indexations successives ont mis sur les genoux (ces contrats influent directement sur le niveau d'emploi des artistes); lever un moratoire devenu intenable sur les infrastructures, gérer un statut d'artiste contesté, etc., et cela avec un budget sans doute en baisse ! On n'échapperait pas alors à des choix plus sélectifs et douloureux.
voir aussi rapport/bilan de Fadila "Focus Culture 2013" sur www. culture.be
Letter to Stephanie Manfroid (unsent) http://fs.pad.constantvzw.org:8000/70
Notes meeting with Natacha + Martino 28/02/14 http://fs.pad.constantvzw.org:8000/75
QUESTIONS
Julia Rone
What is the connection between capitalism, patriarchy and (cultural) heritage "Property Relations: Renewing the Anthropological Tradition"
Natacha Roussel
10 dec 2013 la ministre de la culture: Anne Laure Filippetti refuse l'invitation à l'inauguration de l'institut culturel google (rue de Londres dans le marais) elle invoque: « La question de l'équité fiscale, celle de la protection des données personnelles, celle de la protection de la diversité culturelle et enfin le dossier des droits d'auteurs. » Par ailleurs, dans « l'automne numérique » (politique numérique du ministère) sont traités des sujets comme la mise en valeur du domaine public et l'ouverture des données du domaine public culturel, poursuit la ministre.
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2013/12/10/aurelie-filippetti-boycotte-l-institut-culturel-google_3528287_651865.html
I think one of the problem is that google licenses their images (high resolution caption of art work) which creates cases of enclosure of public domain belonging + obviously no funding for showing artwork on their virtual museum which creates strong interferences from a private entity with usual museum functioning (aside from the fact that their is no funding either for living artists)...........
also a good article here http://scinfolex.com/2013/12/13/des-partenariats-public-prive-aux-partenariats-public-communs-a-propos-du-google-cultural-institute/
and of course (however less explicit)
http://creativecommons.fr/institut-culturel-google-et-les-oeuvres-du-domaine-public/
some more notes about incorporating information to life, pervasiveness and invisibility as know illusion, it is I guess rather a question of openess curiosity that creates lively possibility within documentation structures, it is about personnal action rather than accessibility, about strongly existing and sharing rather than easyness I really like the reflection about google's tunnel as a process of detachment from the world part of an ongoing process that might be a new capitalistic phase >>> hence the importance to keep information alive and attached to the world.
How to differentiate between the two systems (Otlet vs. Google) to understand why Google can but should not assimilate Otlet:
- Otlet willing to create a dynamic information structure where traffic would impact content, while Google uses content and identity to create an economical force of power
- Generative production of knowledge vs. reductionist source of control
- Wikipedia vs. Google?
- From a world of sensorialities to a world of organisation?
- A dynamic organization vs world domination
- Was Otlet aiming to make an archiving model that would foster dynamic organisation, not necessarily participative as in wikipedia but rather focused on relations as in hypertext, or rather mapping out dynamic set of relations constantly forming new patterns between themselves. More than a content archive this would be a "relation archive"; this is what is dynamic about it
- Google is the most adaptative structure, however, because it works on individualistic premisces it should not integrate Otlet that has conceived a structure made from exchanges a system not aiming at fostering power relation but rather dynamic exchanges.
- Why did UIA move to Den Hague in 1938?? http://www.uia.org/encyclopedia
Marthe Van Dessel
What to make of the letter that Otlet apparently wrote to Hitler
Roel Roscam Abbing
Hoe dan ook, wat me opviel aan het verhaal van Paul Olet is dat Google juist bezig is met het schrijven/beschrijven/herschrijven van zijn eigen verleden. In plaats van te roepen hoe nieuw ze zijn zeggen ze eigenlijk hoe oud ze zijn. Ze plaatsen zich heel bewust in een historische context die anders is dan de de context waaruit het bedrijf is ontstaan, wat een boeiende stap is. Tegelijkertijd is het voor Mons, DiRupio en Wallonie een manier om te laten zien hoe nieuw/innovatief zij wel niet zijn!
Martino
Connections between Google and cybernetics theorists and implications ...
Seda
Colonialism in Otlet and Google (problematics of universalist world view for both). Find where it is different from Walmart, Amazon moving in.
Jara
http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2014/01/29/actualidad/1390996818_901708.html
Michael
The result is that this perspective leads one necessarily to
consider all creation simultaneously as reinvestments, revalorizations of mankinds's activities. The object, reality or ''presence'' takes on value only as an agent of ''becoming''. But it is impossible to establish a future without a past. The future is made through relinquishing or sacrificing the past. He who possesses the past of a phenomenon also possesses the sources of its becoming. Europe will continue to be the source of modern development. Here, the only problem is to know who would have the right to sacrifices and to the relinquishments of this past, that is who will inherit the futurist power. I wish to rejuvenate European culture. I begin with art. Our past is full of becoming. One needs only to crack open the shells. ''Détournement'' is a game born out of the capacity for ''devalorization.'' Only he who is able to devalorize can create new values. And only there where there is ''something'' to devalorize, that is an already established value, can one engage in devalorization. It is up to us to devalorize or be devalorized according to our ability to reinvest in our own culture. There remain only two possibilities for us in Europe: to be sacrificed or to sacrifice. It is up to you to choose between the historical monument and the act that merits it.
text: Asger Jorn. Translated form the French and annotated by Thomas Y. Levin. (c) 1988
MIT Press, Cambridge MA, USA
Original text Peinture détournée, first published in "Vingt peintures modifées par Asger Jorn", exhibition catalogue, Paris, Galerie Rive Gauche, May 1959.
Peter
Look at history of Autoworld
http://www.autoworld.be/the-museum/intro
Renee Turner
If you wanted to get autobiographical with your analysis of Google's embracing of Otlet - it could be interesting to look at the fact that Larry Page was absolutely phobic about winding up like Nikola Tesla - who he thought was the smarter man but had no commercial sense like Edison, the latter being a brutal economic Darwinist with a will to win. With that it mind, I find it almost comical that Google would now fabricate its history around Otlet's Utopian enterprise. It's almost contradictory to Page's will to being the greatest of media moguls.
Larry Page: You don't want to be Tesla. He was one of the greatest inventors, but it's a sad, sad story. He couldn't commercialize anything, he could barely fund his own research. You'd want to be more like Edison. If you invent something, that doesn't necessarily help anybody. You've got to actually get it into the world; you've got to produce, make money doing it so you can fund it. http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/29/magazines/fortune/larry_page_change_the_world.fortune/index3.htm
THE LIEGE / MONS BATTLE
Gustave Abeels, president des Amis de palais mondial en 1983
"Monsieur ABEELS Gustave (prof de néerlandais) un VRAI rotzak...mais TRES TRES TRES intelligent, l'emmerdant c'est que tout l' monde devait le savoir." http://bruxellesanecdotique.skynetblogs.be/archive/2011/01/24/bruxelles.html
TODO
Contacts
- Stéphanie Manfroid (responisble archives Mundaneum)
- Thomas Hapke (Luehneburg, Hamburg)
Reading
http://en.calameo.com/read/001046479044d24f454b1
Jean-François Füeg, Cahiers Internationaux de Symbolisme 95:147-156 (2000)
Cahiers de la documentation – Bladen voor documentatie – 2012/2
HUBRIS OR UTOPIA? Megalomania and imagination in the work of Paul Otlet
http://www.abd-bvd.be/cah/papers/2012-2_Van_Acker.pdf
Robert Estival, Paul Otlet dans l'histoire de la Bibliologie
http://www.abd-bvd.be/cah/papers/2012-2_Estivals.pdf
Cérisier, Bettina ; Füeg, Jean-François (coord.). Un Internet
de papier, le Mundaneum. Éditions Mundaneum, 1998, 80p.
Füeg, Jean-François. Le Mundaneum d’Otlet à Internet, une machine à faire la paix. In: Roelants-Abraham, Josiane (éd.). Information et documentation: du réel au virtuel. Commémoration du XXe anniversaire de la section INFO-DOC. Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1998, p. 105-114.
http://www.abd-bvd.be/cah/papers/2006-3_Lejeune.pdf
Paul Otlet (1868-1944) Fondateur du mouvement bibliogique international Par Jacques Hellemans (Bibliothèque de l’Université libre de Bruxelles, Premier Attaché)
http://archives.lesoir.be/un-internet-de-papier-le-mundaneum-prefigure-le-web-des_t-20011026-Z0L36U.html
Mention "Google du papier" http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2012/11/01/le-web-une-histoire-belge_1784522_3246.html
Happy New Year "Pere de l'idee de l'internet" http://www.mundaneum.org/greetings/
http://doku.b.tu-harburg.de/volltexte/2013/1192/
Planning/actions
Make AA version; subtitle and translate videos EN - FR
At least one more public lecture/presentation in "friendly circles" before March 1
1 March 2014: Ask Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles for a (symbolic) subsidy "aides à la création/production, à l'édition et pour l'organisation d'un évènement" http://www.artsplastiques.cfwb.be/index.php?id=10600
Before September 2014: publish text + translate in FR
QUOTES
Looking for patronage
"Towards the end of the documentary, I only found it to be profoundly sad for such a principled man who was a staunch pacifist to turn to Hitler in a last-ditch effort. This was a man whose life’s work in cataloguing and collections was “systematically destroyed,” as the documentary stated. Johanna (several posts below) made the point that Otlet’s ongoing struggle to fight for his collections is something that current librarians and archivists have to deal with today. It made me think about the extraordinary lengths that Otlet went through to try to preserve his work." http://meenerz.wordpress.com/thoughts-about-paul-otlet/
Otlet was a utopian. For him, if everyone shared what they knew, there'd be no more war. He proposed to the League of Nations [the first incarnation of the UN] that they sponsor his library, but it never happened. He had a small family fortune, but in the end he died completely ruined and alone. He'd asked many countries to fund his project - even Hitler's Germany." http://observers.france24.com/content/20080925-internet-web-paul-otlet-knowledge-mapping
"Mais Otlet aura tout essayé pour concrétiser son projet. Jusqu'à le proposer au Troisième Reich, en 1941, parce que le Führer a déclaré sa volonté d'une paix juste et stable et que la cité mondiale repose sur des principes idéologiques conformes à de tels désiderata ! La fin du chemin pour un homme que la démesure aura perdu et dont l'histoire de ce siècle n'aura finalement conservé qu'un vague souvenir." (Le Soir,
Why the Mundaneum is not a Google on Paper
"Situé à proximité d’un des principaux data center de Google dans le monde (Baudour), le musée montois va créer en son sein un espace didactique consacré à ces gigantesques fermes à serveurs. Le Mundaneum sera aussi le lien entre Google et les opérateurs culturels locaux dans le cadre de Mons, Capitale européenne de la Culture en 2015." http://archives.lesoir.be/google-veut-soigner-son-image_t-20130222-02A6J1.html
Both Otlet and Google had the notion of a world view it is indeed very difficult to differentiate how their sense of englobing the world thoroughly differs. However it feels like Google has an action that tends to reproduce the world power structure whereas Otlet was looking as structured environment some sort of harmony/choreography where everyone would have its voice.
Obviously this can be a very scary approach also (as history has already shown, group choreography are scary...) however it doesn't seem that Otlet has fallen into that aspect, whatever his relations with money structures where, he never commited the structure of his project to any direct control but always continued aiming for peaceful relations. Otlet and Lafontaine were implicated in structuring, that is they were not only concentrated in how peaceful relations could be obtained between nation states (linking them in la société des nations). Nevertheless Otlet thought of UIA as a way to foster relationships between information rather than information itself in this sense he is often acknowledged as being a precursor of the internet. Mostly it is this acknowledgement on the essential status of relations that makes for the importance of Otlet's approach, more than its world view or the precusor view of media, it is the focus on relations that makes for a dynamic documentation structure.
"Dans son Traité de documentation publié en 1934, Paul Otlet avait prédit : "Sous sa forme nouvelle, le livre sera croissance continue" (p.429) Dans sa vision, le livre avait pour vocation de prolonger le rêve encyclopédique des Lumières, de tenter d’englober la complexité du monde, en n’hésitant pas à se faire réseau, rhizome, structure en perpétuelle expansion. Chaque livre pourrait ainsi tendre à devenir un livre-monde, idéalement presque aussi complexe que le monde lui-même." http://fkaplan.wordpress.com/tag/otlet/
"Nous ne pouvons comprendre, aujourd’hui, l’importance de l’œuvre bibliographique de Paul Otlet, si nous n’établissons pas sa relation étroite avec les Encyclopédistes du siècle des Lumières. Pour les Encyclopédistes du 18e siècle, Diderot, d’Alembert et les autres, il est temps pour l’humanité de faire l’inventaire de son savoir acquis dans tous les domaines. L’encyclopédie sera alors la base de l’essor des sciences. Pour Paul Otlet, dès la fin du 19e siècle, il est temps de faire l’inventaire de tous les supports de ce savoir, de tous les livres et de tous les documents. Toute recherche aujourd’hui part du document, pour atteindre le savoir. Historiquement, c’est l’inverse qui s’est produit."
Robert Estival, Paul Otlet dans l'histoire de la Bibliologie http://www.abd-bvd.be/cah/papers/2012-2_Estivals.pdf
"Otlet envisioned links that carried meaning by, for example, annotating if particular documents agreed or disagreed with each other." Alex Wright, 2008
Link to semantic web seems more obvious than Wikipedia vs Google. RDF + see why Tim Berners Lee is mad at Facebook/Google. Google turning down RDF?
According to Charles van den Heuvel's interpretation, Otlet was proposing a system in which knowledge would be laid out hierarchically; only a small group of scholars would organize the information, and changes and annotations would not be blended into existing information, as Wikipedia does, but would complement them.
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Lesoir (1998): Après toutes ces années, quelle est encorel'actualité du Mundaneum?
Josiane Roelants: Nos peurs restent celles d'Otlet et de La Fontaine, en somme. Ils craignaient l'entrée dans le vingtième siècle, et la guerre; nous sommes face aux incertitudes du troisième millénaire. Leur réponse était mondiale avec le répertoire bibliographique universel ou le palais mondial; la nôtre aussi, avec Internet. En 1895, ils estimaient déjà qu'être informé, c'est lutter contre l'obscurantisme et la dictature. Mais ils soulignaient aussi que le contrôle de l'information est un redoutable instrument de pouvoir.
Francois Schuiten dans Le Soir: j'ai envie de faire comprendre que l'utopie est un besoin pour nous tous, aujourd'hui encore. Pour mener à bien cette tâche, Schuiten et Peeters ont conçu un décor... que personne n'a été autorisé à voir avant l'inauguration. On sait toutefois qu'il s'articulera autour d'un globe de trois mètres et demi de diamètre, animé et lumineux, et qui retracera l'histoire du monde depuis la création de l'Office international de bibliographie en 1895.
«La France est la Silicon Valley de la culture et il était une évidence pour Google d’y installer son institut culturel», a ajouté Nick Leeder quelques heures plus tard au cours de l’inauguration. http://www.liberation.fr/politiques/2013/12/10/filippetti-annule-sa-venue-a-l-inauguration-de-l-institut-culturel-google_965422
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From notes Martino:
So the operation we are trying to get through here is “taking the tool inside life rather than taking life inside the tool”.
Interestingly enough, the co-founders of Google (Page and Brin) were students of Winograd, and thus inherited in a subterrean. For example, take the Google’s homepage (in contrast to the cluttered web-page of Yahoo!). It’s always ready-to-hand (Zuhandenheit), very clear and uncluttered so that one types in queries without even thinking about it. To accelerate this further, the goal is to make computing invisible, transparent, ubiqutious, and integrated into every aspect of life. Then what becomes interesting is the “breakdown”, when the engineeried system no longer works. This is the kind of operation that Agamben calls “rendering inoperable”. For Winograd and Flores, the “breakdown” is a great opportunity to fix an engineering problem. The world, left out of the classical Cartesian ontology, becomes incorporated into the cybernetic system. In this way, the entire Heideggerian ontology can become part of all an all encompassing project of enframing. Now, with the crisis of capitalism (the detachment of capitalist value from the world), the project of incorporating the world directly into a system of domination makes increasing sense. It is unclear if this is a new stage of capitalism, a further refinement of real subsumption, or actually a phase beyond capitalism where many concepts crucial to capitalism have been surprassed.
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Fathers of the Internet @ Are You Being Served: http://video.constantvzw.org/VJ14/videoarchive/wolke/wolke-femke.ogv + http://vj14.stdin.fr/r/Fathers.md
We do not live in that kind of world @ Public Library: http://constantvzw.org/site/We-don-t-live-in-this-kind-of.html