417.4 - Chamber Fowl

MyBib is my bower, and I am a bird - free to flutter about collecting stories. Like the borg, we will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us.

For as much as I love a peice of work, I tear it apart, and adapt and use it's carcass for furthering my own machination. This can be seen in everything I do. Nothing is original, they say - I used to think that was a criticism, but i have embraced it, and accepted it.

Fusion of rigor and expression and curation and transformation are fundamental aspects of our journey. As tepid as Dr Tess Brady's bowerbird descriptions are, it's an adequate metaphor for the important process to use both the academic and creative lenses of us. The borg ripping apart different aliens is much more visceral and evocative. As the borg select diverse peoples, as do we collect different disciplines and materials, and as the bowerbird selects its own objects for create its intricate display. You dont read one story, so why create just one?

Writers write about what they know. Good writers do research.

My thoughts on

https://textjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/35896-a-question-of-genre-de-mystifying-the-exegesis

Episte-wha?

Epistemology - the study of knowledge.

OK, so thats a bit meta what do you mean?

OK, so not just the teaching of knowledge, but the creation of new knowledge, and its assessment for implementation. Where its useful. If its valid. How it's structured. Does it make sense?

Cool, so like, books, yeah?

Not just books - music, paintings, technical aspects, everything. It covers a lot. It also shows how there is very little truly original knowledge left in the world, without understanding whats extant, how can we possibly claim to create something new? New knowledge is created on the ideas of others, and citing these sources so others can do the same.

Oh, so like Isaac Newton said "if I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Sure, but that saying is older than Isaac Newton - the oldest record is from 12th Century philosopher Bernard of Chartres "we [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter. And this is not at all because of the acuteness of our sight or the stature of our body, but because we are carried aloft and elevated by the magnitude of the giants"

Whoah, that's so meta!

Exactly.

Troyan, S. D. (2004). Medieval rhetoric: A casebook. London: Routledge.

CIM417 Week 4