[It] is the kind of book that binds together innumerable miscellaneous threads and makes something new, coherent, and incontrovertible out of them. Weinberger’s thesis is this: historically, we’ve divided the world into categories, topics, and hierarchies because physical objects need to be in one place or another, they can’t be in all the places they might belong. Computers and the Internet turn this on its head: because a computer can “put things” in as many categories as they need to be in, because individuals can classify knowledge, tasks, and objects idiosyncratically, the hierarchy is revealed for what it always was, a convenient expedient masquerading as the True Shape of the Universe.
Aquest és el comentari que Boing-Boing fa del nou llibre de David Weinberger: “Everything is Miscellaneous (“Tot és miscel.lani”). Més encara:
It’s a powerful idea: from org charts to science, from music to retail theory, from government to education, every field of human endeavor is tinged with hierarchy, and every hierarchy is under assault from the Internet.
De fet, no parlem sempre de Recerca Interdisciplinar? Per què no parlem d’Universitats diferents, d’Universitats que facin coses diferents a les establertes? Per què les Universitats han de seguir el catàleg de títols? Per què se’ns vol uniformar tot? Per què no es pot innovar en el govern?
Des de la miscel.lània i la categortzació múltiple es pot innovar. També a les Universitats.