La conoscenza come ars combinatoria: internet e la questione del ‘filtraggio del sapere’ secondo Umberto Eco
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https://doi.org/10.15162/2704-8659/1127Parole chiave:
library, knowledge, internet, webAbstract
According to Umberto Eco, the spread of digital technologies and the Internet is an issue concerning the humanities because it involves the structure of our knowledge. The web is a medium where many writings proliferate chaotically, without a hierarchy and with no respect for authority. The result is an open and rhizomatic space similar to a big library, as Eco puts it. Moreover, according to Eco, the web needs to be filtered because of its exorbitant amount of data which cannot be interpreted: it is like ‘Funes el memorioso’, the title character of Borges’s novel, who had a prodigious memory but was hopelessly stupid.
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2019-11-26