User:Emily/Thematic Project/Trimester 03/06
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)