carmen on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:30:01 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> Critique of the "Semantic Web" |
i agree with t byfield's post. the so-called semantic web/web 2.0 *is* a kind of invasive scheme designed to provide a cultural/social ground of approval whereby your subjectivity, your social habits and your desired identity and image can be fetish-ized and sold to you like bath soap or athletic shoes. it is also, on another level a kind of ritual-mask-for-hire scheme. (i agree also that we are talking epistemologies not ontologies.) and yes, i agree that it has provoked a cottage industry of professional Explainers, most of whom seem to have missed the basic point. it may be noted that facebook did not miss the point: facebook's mistake was perhaps a lack of diplomacy. -h t byfield wrote: >reto@gmuer.ch (Wed 12/19/07 at 10:40 AM +0100): > >>This is the wrong assumption that makes the further critique of the >>Semantic Web missing the point. The semantic web is not about building >>one big upper-ontology but about supporting many (usually very small) >>ontologies. The domains of those ontologies may overlap or not. A user >> > <...> > >Web 2.0 is a massive expropriation of the integuments of subjectivity, so >you and your "social networks" can be sold^W I mean *licensed* back to you. >And The semantic web is a cottage industry for people to explain what it >"really" means. From 2003: <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org