Books, internet and memory

Delacroix · #1 (**permalink**) 12-14-2003, 10:21 AM

Hello all.
I just read in a weekly magazine nemed "MAIS" of the news paper "Folha de São Paulo", a very interesting article(actually a speech).
Took me a few time to find an English version... hope you like.
Its about comunication... but in the view of a semiology/linguistic master.(Umberto Eco).

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/665/bo3.htm

Any problem with the link, please tell me

Vicsun · #2 (**permalink**) 12-14-2003, 03:08 PM

Just when you think he's gone for good he aways comes back

. Can I expect you to stay around or will you leave us again Mr. Cavallazzi?

If I had a bit more time on my hands I'd read the article, but in the meantime would you care to post a summary? I really shouldn't be in SYM right now, but it seems that it has attracted quite a few usually dormant posters so I just couldn't keep myself away... I'm sure many of you know the feeling.

C Elegans · #3 (**permalink**) 12-14-2003, 05:20 PM

Hello Ivan, I'm so pleased to see you again!

Eco is one of my favorite writers as you know, and I will read the article as soon as I have time...I work a lot right now, too much really...

Delacroix · #4 (**permalink**) 12-14-2003, 09:23 PM

Yes...
i though the ppl i knew in that time was not going to be around anymore... Its very good to be wrong

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I am also very pleased to see you CElegans, and you too, Vicsun.
I ll come here more often

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I took a look in the threads... i had forgoten how elucidative Gamebanshee is.
"Saudades"

The article. I posted here cause i found the act ironic.
Eco, in the Library of Alexandria(Egypt), made an excelent speech about information. Hypertext(internet format)and books. How they will coexist or opose themselfs. He continue to the aspects of the linguistic and so on...

I find interesting because it came to me in a book format, and i sent to you as a link(hypertext). When he was talking about links and internet memory, SYM came to my mind

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Btw, someone correct me if i am wrong, iirc there was a library in Alexandria that was destroyed long ago, isnt it? or it was a legend?

fable · #5 (**permalink**) 12-14-2003, 09:33 PM

It was real, Ivan--and good to see you around.

In fact, it was regarded by later civilizations as one of the "7 Wonders of the Ancient World." Estimates vary about how much actual written material the Library housed, and whom it was available for; chances are, it was a consultative structure only, for international governmental purposes. History records several burnings of the Library at various times, which ultimately wiped it out.

Eco is fascinating, isn't he?

Delacroix · #6 (**permalink**) 12-14-2003, 10:08 PM

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Originally posted by fable
It was real, Ivan--and good to see you around. In fact, it was regarded by later civilizations as one of the "7 Wonders of the Ancient World." Estimates vary about how much actual written material the Library housed, and whom it was available for; chances are, it was a consultative structure only, for international governmental purposes. History records several burnings of the Library at various times, which ultimately wiped it out.

Eco is fascinating, isn't he?

Fable.
Exactly in the text he says that the knowledge of library is almost like the conscience of God. Or at least, a human atempt to build the knowledge of a god. What is interesting. An incredible number of concepts, views(semiotic unite both things). Its like be everywhere(lots of writers) to create complementar concepts of comom objects. To know almost everything for the price of impessoality.
Curiosly lots of doubts come from the know-much.

"Someone that know too much of too many things" remind me of you

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Thanks for the Library of Alexandria insight

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(Its impossible... he got to have ppl researching for him

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