Abandon hierarchy all ye who enter here.
David Weinberger’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous, is dedicated to the librarians. It could be likened to a lumberjack’s chain saw tearing down every Aristotelian tree in the forest, but that would probably be wrong. It would probably also be wrong to assert that the miscellaneous nature of everything in the universe destroys nested categories leaving homeless the twittering birdies of taxonomic classification. But I don’t know. I haven’t read it yet.
What I anticipate, now that I’ve pried the book away from Veneta, is a pleasant guided tour through the information hell of the 21st century with an opportunity perhaps to grasp new ways of seeing how things relate, and even why they don’t have to relate until I want to make sense out of what’s within my own field of vision.
I’m looking forward to reading it. I’ll blog about what I find out.
[tags]David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous[/tags]
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