On 02/09/13 11:11 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > > It seems to me this is no different than what occurs in any communality; > there are always debates about who is an artist, what art is, etc., and > Wikipedia just reflects that. And in fact because it mostly excludes so- > called regional artists, it's not much use in this kind of thinking. I > must be missing something, but the problem seems to be the kind of > discourse that's always gone on within and without the arts - Alan
What made this different for me is: * I'd spent several frustrating hours trying to get a list of artists from Wikipedia via DBPedia, and I kept getting books and clock making companies in the list. * With Wikipedia the process is less familiar, and the structures more explicit, so it is more obvious and easier to investigate. * Wikipedia is often presented as a postmodern model of knowledge, this showed that it has some very modernist hangovers. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
