Diogenes articles from December 2002

Diogenes archives from December 2002

Introduction: justifying a retrospective approach.
December 22, 2002... Today, with the digitisation of texts, sounds and images and their circulation on the Internet, we are deploying new techniques for storing knowledge which will increasingly supplement and even replace older memory recording systems, such as...

On the supposed neo-structuralism of Hypertext.
December 22, 2002... ORIGINS OF HYPERTEXT A technique widely used today Hypertext encompasses a particular aspect of the virtual book that is playing an increasingly important part with the expansion of the Internet and the web. The success of HTML...

The art of memory and the art of page layout in the Middle Ages.
December 22, 2002... Since the theme of this issue is `back to the future,' especially to the ways in which information formats before the age of printing anticipate and perhaps even may give some guidance to principles of organization and cognitive layouts for the...

Visual construction of writing in the medieval book.
December 22, 2002... The links which connect the nature of the medium to the methods of access and to the objects of knowledge, relationships between form and content, are a broad continuum whose interlinked facts require a transdisciplinary study. (1) ...

Gathering memory: thoughts on the history of libraries.
December 22, 2002... Maps and libraries are ways of externalising memory and knowledge, making them not only concrete, visible and accessible, but also durable, reproducible, communicable and socially active. Both are linked to processes of totalisation. Maps add...

Principles of HyperNietzsche.(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
December 22, 2002... Nietzsche for the experts `One thing, however, seems certain: the manuscripts should be completely deciphered and transcribed, and studied as a group, as an individual manuscript, as an individual page (in many cases!), and then put in...

Genesis and hypertext: exchanging scores.
December 22, 2002... It is difficult to give a precise definition (1) of hypertext since, in addition to its use as a technical tool, there is the conceptual dimension of a space for organizing memory and mapping connections. People often confuse the hypertext...

Electronic publishing in France: closed [temporarily] for stock-taking.
December 22, 2002... In May 2000 a group of researchers, university teachers and publishers met to consider the impact of the new media for knowledge transmission on the intellectual world and listed the projects ongoing in France for publishing content...

Who were the authors before Homer in Mesopotamia?
December 22, 2002... Mesopotamian works are usually anonymous; at best the names of some copyists are known. Some significant exceptions, such as Saggil-kenam-ubbib, the author of Theodicee babylonienne (1), Kabti-ili-Marduk, author of the `myth of Erra' (2), and...

The author's right to intellectual property.
December 22, 2002... Increasingly in certain circles the idea is growing up that `intellectual property is theft'. (1) With companies being concentrated into multimedia groups, literary works being captured electronically, products being created for a mass-media...

External memories: hypertext, traces and agents.
December 22, 2002... Preamble `External memories' raise a question about context: `external to what?' External memory is a technical term applied to everything that can be memorized in an individual's environment. As a general rule I have decided to retain the...

How will they write?(possible future effects on the future of writing)
December 22, 2002... A great deal of thought has been given to the effects of information technology on reading, books and printed material. Its impact on writing, the production of texts, which is, however, the counterpart of reading, has not aroused the same...