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• Twitter Links Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

  "What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible" The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature.…

  March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments

• Link Knowledge, not the way you knew it

  17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Link Like Boiling a Frog: The Wonder of Wikipedia

  When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the…

  May 23 2009, 4:46am | Comments

• Link wikipedia before wikipedia | if:book

  I've been reading Tom McArthur's Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer, a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials published in 1986.…

  March 13 2009, 5:48am | Comments

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• Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island
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• A Labyrinth (No Minotaur): Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show 2011
• Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean
• RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2
• Thoughts on art practice PhDs
• And There It Was
• “Everything on the Face of the Earth”