Reading Notes
Chp 5: Deconstruction Information – Lee Thayer
- Information is part of the system and cannot be taken away from it
- System is not decomposable.
- “To speak of bulls…is not the same as to be in the bullring.”
- People understand what’s in their system.
- Describe as much as you want, people do not understand whats outside of their system.
- Order lets us understand.
- Why are things in order/sequence?
- Information takes “the path of least resistance”
- Information is “the link between what we know and what we know it with”.
- Limits are important.
- Information “was not seen as the path to anything”, while currently the more information we have, “the closer we must be getting to the ‘truth’ about this or that.”
- Certain people used to have power, now information itself has power.
- Information must be turned into meaning in order for the mind to understand.
- Systems are important too.
What is documentation:
- “A document is a proof in support of fact”
- An object must be cataloged before others can derive information from it.
- Need catalogues, of catalogues, to understand primary documentation.
- “Knowledge and studies, science and practice could not exist without the efficient exploration of documents and a rigorous organization of documentary work.”
- The Documentalist keeps track of documents that are about objects
- The more we know, the more documentation we need
- Human re-document in different languages
- There is an overwhelming amount of documentation compared to the earlier years
- Intellectual work, compared to previous years, has a different rhythm due to all the machines available for documentation.
- There is so much documentation that a Documentalist is needed to help the scientist sift through documents.
- Documenting is become more of a skill set.
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