User:Emily/Thematic Project/Trimester 03/06

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Encyclopaedia Assembly

Attempted University
totality <-> Fragmentation -> anti-encyclopaedia


Structure

Utopia, Heterotopia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterotopia_(space))
curated knowledge
fact/fiction


categorisation

point of view
divine, human, non-human
conscious + unconscious categorisation
assemble/ assembly database
differences
subjectivity


Access

collective/cultural memory
medium,-> visual, linguistic, haptic, auditory
historicity of form & content
media accessibility -> transparency, global/local, guidance/user friendliness, etc.



Jorge Luis Borges

Voynich manuscript
athanasius kircher, (book on music) musurgia; kabbalah;

universal language -->philosophy based on formal logical reasoning semantics

book: the search for the perfect language(the making of Europe)