Comments on: Ungeeking as transformative strategy https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ungeeking-as-transformative-strategy/2009/05/09 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 09 May 2009 08:33:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Nick Taylor https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ungeeking-as-transformative-strategy/2009/05/09/comment-page-1#comment-414647 Sat, 09 May 2009 08:33:56 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2939#comment-414647 This is one of my favorite subjects – the re-emergence of pre-broadcast-era modes of organisation and communication, and in a way it makes sense. What appears to be emerging is something that has a lot in common with aural traditions – and the patterns that evolved the last time an aural tradition held sway did so because they were the most effective.

Jeremy Keith does an interesting talk on Irish traditional music http://adactio.com/journal/1355 – on how it depended on copying and sharing to stay alive, and how it nearly died (or vast swathes were nearly lost) in the 1800s but for the efforts of a single man. In some respects I think the 20th century can be regarded as a blip. It was a relatively short period in our history where the dissemination of ideas was non-viral. Maybe.

I think another aspect of this that’s quite interesting is poetically embodied in this fabulous machine : http://www.genomicon.com/2009/01/by-which-time-within-our-veins-flowed-pure-ink/ – a calligraphy robot. THE cultural artifact that most symbolically bit the dust during the first Guttenburg-Shift could well find itself resurrected with the second.

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