spornitz on Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:46:04 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> Ontology? |
I know that a lot of you folks are a lot smarter about this stuff, but talk of Ontology harkens me back to the works of R.D. Laing and his ideas of ontology-of-self; I only bring this up because it's not too far a stretch to say that the behaviours of the mental patients described in his "Sanity, Madness and the Family" to escape parental manipulations are mirrored in the kind of home-made webs that were built by *netizens* (netsters? :) back in '93-'94 and I can see how the do-it-your-self-help approach to life as reconciled in Laing's writing is born out in a movement that would use terms like Ontology to describe a communication network. Just a (sort-of, kind-of) thought. -Bill t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com> wrote: >or: M*ke M*ney F*st as a part-time ontological envelope-stuffer! > >even boiled down to plain-vanilla ascii, this is *the* best discussion >i've seen about the chimerical 'semantic web.' i'm sending this version >to nettime as a sort of nostalgic doff of the hat to 'collaborative >text filtering' (which doesn't seem to be doing very well these days, >at least not in this neighborhood), but don't miss the page itself: > > < http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/semantic/ >... # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net