Putting Context Into Knowledge

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What context are we in? The first knowledge artefact of our culture was a map Over 60,000 years ago people living in ‘Russia,’ actually a Viking term, had one such They used them to remember food locations

Sing a song of knowledge

Out of Africa But the little Ice Age 25,000 years ago changed the way we related to a newly harsh environment; And gave us a materialist epistemology; we became creator gods

Wall Paintings

Let Civilisation begin So we began the history of recording knowledge. As Dawkins said, everyone alive today came from an ancestor who succeeded in living And our ancestors had particular knowledge

Into Jericho The vagaries of who owned the fruits of emerging agriculture practice lead us out of the plains & into property & then property rights We learnt how to measure success

From Pictographs to Symbolic Language

Let Bureaucracy begin In the Beginning was the Word Religion became the repository of knowledge And Books appeared, stores of recorded knowledge & property

Let Academia appear Socrates, the undisputed star of Plato’s Academy, opposed written knowledge The design of the Academy almost changed that; building, orchard, gymnasium. But the Romans cut down the trees & cut out learning conversations

Let’s Drink A Draft of Print

Enter mechanical innovations Innovations occur when a new invention, type , is added to existing tools; wine press, paper, symbols, fonts, metals, ink And mashups maketh new

It’s a Heliocentric World! And then that mercantile opportunist, Galileo, pointed his telescope speculatively at the stars Instead of speculatively at the merchant navy And changed professions…

Enter the Enlightenment Meet Catherine the Great Dad Peter went shipbuilding in Deptford Catherine was smarter To The Hermitage In St Petersburg

When Catherine met Denis

Then Charles met Ada

Let’s Lighten Up Meet Aria Giovanni

When Jimmy met Aria Jimmy Wales made his money from the hyper-linked Bomis Web Rings Starring Aria Giovanni Sex enabled the crowd-sourced digital mashup of encyclopedias Wikipedia

Yet women moved from Philosopher Queens to Porn Queens during the Enlightenment! Or is that a…

Artificial Intelligence Ducks

The Book of Laughter & Forgetting But as Joseph Weizenbaum asks W hy this obsession with storing everything? The really good thing about the brain is it’s ability to forget Time to move on…

Putting Context into Knowledge So I am not arguing for a post- physical virtual project of taking books out of libraries I am calling for a post- Enlightenment project of taking the hierarchy out of knowledge Let’s put context into knowledge So Context is Queen …

Taking the hierarchy out of knowledge So what do have to offer? The unlibrary & if:Book Transliteracy/Participatory Culture Everything is Miscellaneous Ambient Learning City#mosialong The Human Knowledge Project

The #unlibrary Crouch End

#Transliteracy

Participatory Culture

Everything is Miscellaneous

Ambient Learning City Uses Emergent Model of Learning; “ Non-linear dynamic systems” So learning responsive to context Systems-designed for use & appropriation by learners Wifi-enabled learning conversations Follow #mosialong #contextisqueen

The Human Knowledge Project

Conclusion; Time to move on Understand how knowledge grew from various historical contexts What we know, Academia, IPR & the Enlightenment are all ‘ Temporarily Useful Eccentricities’ Create new context-responsive tools for new forms of participation Design knowledge for context & appropriation by citizens

Links David Weinberger; Everything is Miscellaneous (YouTube) Siva Vaidhyanathan; The Googlization of Everything (Blog) Daniel Levitin; The World in Six Songs (WebSite) Clay Shirkey; Here Comes Everybody (RSA talk Video) Joseph Weizenbaum; Computer Power & Human Reason (Wikipedia) Henry Jenkins; Convergence Culture (Blog) Blake Morrison; Testament of Johannes Gutenberg (Website) Sue Thomas; Transliteracy (Vimeo) Fred Garnett; Emergent Learning Model (The Heutagogic Archive Blog) Images; Google Search & Wikipedia; Vaucanson, Babbage, Lovelace

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Putting Context Into Knowledge

by London Knowledge Lab on May 03, 2011

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