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Monday, February 07, 2005

netzwissenschaft.de...



David Crawford just pointed me towards netzwissenschaft.de.

this beginning:

"netzwissenschaft.de is mapping the emerging infrastructures of all (inter)net research endeavours."

is amazingly utopian in the sense of being "characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection".

:)

this is great as a linkpool, but when i read "netzwissenschaft.de -- as a comprehensive internet and network research page -- existed from october 2, 2000 to november 13, 2003." i am totally confused by the heady mix of illusions of grandeur @ being a comprehensive regarding internet + network research combined w/the dating of the project between 2000.10.02 to 2003.11.13.

how can an all encompassing index have an end date? such horizonless (+ perhaps neoVictorian) projects must be foreverLong + foreverLengthening...

reminds me of the very different approach of The University of Openess that Saul Albert pointed me towards over the summer.

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