On 6/20/11 10:39 AM, Henry Story wrote:
On 20 Jun 2011, at 10:51, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
On 6/20/11 8:31 AM, Henry Story wrote:
Perhaps it can become mythical. The URL should be by now:-)
The URI :-)
Perhaps we should write it
URi
to get a bit of Apple magic. Pronounced your-eye,
Neat and implicit !
it does indeed have this you<-->i tension, which French philosopher of technology Bernard
Stiegler, elaborating on work by Gilbert Simondon from the 1960ies (especially his book
"L'Individuation psychique et collective" to appear in translation this summer in
English I am told) takes as fundamental to our understanding of the self. There is no
individual first and social after or on the side, or vice versa. Individuation is a process of
integration of the social via history passed down through oral traditions initially (by
memorisation of poems such as the Iliad), through alphabetic writing - the most important
technological transformation brought on by the ancient greeks; ancient greece where kids had to
go to school to learn to read and write, so they could learn the laws of the city written on
the walls of Athens for all to see - and then in the 20th century through radio, and
television. This learning one's societies past and learning who one is, is the same process
that then allows one to distinguish oneself from the social and within it. Individuation cannot
happen without the social background, just as the social can flourish only to the extent that
it gives the individual a place to distinguish himself within it. Societies themselves are
individualised by how they distinguish themselves from others...
Yep!
So your WebID indeed identifies you, but within the space of your social and
conceptual relations.
Amen!
WebID is a very powerful demonstration of what makes Linked Data so
powerful. It solves real problems that can't be fixed objectively
(distributed fashion without central control) in the Information Space
dimension.
Kingsley
Henry
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