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...On knowledge...

I was looking at this rather shity documentary called The Future of Art (the title says it all), and I was thinking on knowledge. On character said that more and more people write and that people is not reading any more, other claimed that the artists represented by his gallery don't really read.

One of my tutors at university said that "the students have a completely different view on knowledge", and yesterday I saw a video of a lecture from Harvard and one professor said that "students are not interested in knowledge for knowledges sake, but look for something with a purpose-something thaT can eat or fornicate with", which I found rather insulting and funny at the saME TIME.


Going back to this perceived situation where the engagement with knowledge is more of a disposable relationship, I feel that there must be a consistent explanation for it.

Quickly I am going to "think while I am writing" (as, if I'm not wrong, Borges once said).

I have the feeling that our environment, our context is fast paced. What it was is not anymore. The playing field changes so quickly that things become outdated.
Also the complexity is high and growing. We cant cope with the level of information and the systems we have to deal with it are crap. We cant effectively edit out and canalize.

If there is something as the post-modern condition, what we have is a situation of no conclusions. Everything goes. For some, no morale, no ethics, no boundaries. The age of try and error. Do and do and do and do. We are on an age of perceived abundance.

Knowledge seem to operate at this kind of level. It like the phone charger, it changes, frequently.

Knowledge as a consumable commodity,  when then move onto another plot, but not necessarily to the next one, again our condition is perhaps, post-modern. We jump back in time and across geographies -digital realm-.

Knowledge is strictly teological. It gets you the job, it provides with a life of commodities. The pace and pressure of capitalism won't let you step of the track, and everyone seems to be running rather quickly, so you better keep with the pace. There is no room for the beard, or for whatever that takes time. Capitalism=consumption=growing rate=consumption=slaves of our own lifestyle.

Knowledge its also been processed by the magical assimilation of capitalism. That also brings with it technology and its qualities (speed, dematerialization, dehumanization...) The scale of cities and culture could be related somehow to information processing technologies and digital and mechanical technologies.

The medium does not directly shape the content but it can affect VAStly. See twitter. Its changed the way people related to each other. No only makes relationships virtual, but also contained in a box with a limited number of characters. The medium highly restricts the message and therefore conditions these relationships in different ways.

But, yes, Knowledge. We cant cope. We need to control the stream. We need to protect our brain from entering information and of external agendas.

We need to go back to quality over quantity. But again we have the problem of time and the problem of an ever evolving environment. How do we cope. We need to absorb knowledge faster, more efficiently and practically. The solution could be group working, the subdivision of tasks, and its a working culture that should be encouraged in learning processes. We need to be effective in communicating, and maybe we need to write lees and be more image oriented, (in a society of images?)

And the-informed-decision making as to happen faster.

Answers need to be adaptable, recyclable -as an economic concern rather than ecologic- and quickly shareable. Yet we need to be rigorous and disciplined. This has to happen in making as well as with information.

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