Learning from the Library of Babel

Power

Knowledge = Power

Publishing = Power

In 2005:

161,000 books published in the UK.....1 book/ 372 people

6100 books published in South Africa.....1 book/ 7869 people

97,000 books published in India.....1 book/ 11,371 people

The Basis

Oral Citations?

When there is nothing on the subject in existing print literature

When there's something in print literature, but not enough

When there's something in print literature, but it's flawed or outdated

Symmetry

Open fieldwork

Conversation-Knowledge

Plato: what's the point of reading a book if every time you go back to it, it gives you the same answer?

If two people talking is conversation, what is a youtube video, a facebook post or a tweet?

More on Oral Citations:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations

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