> ... the university, 800 years ago, grew strong on the tree of the artes, as a new branch. I will insist that this innovation was tethered to a technical breakthrough that is generally overlooked by both historians of culture and those of technology. The historically important technique is that of creating texts that can be read at a glance.
https://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1991_text_and_university.PDF
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> .. the university does not derive status from its spawn, namely, science, but western science achieves some claim to dignity because it bloomed in the institutional shadow of the academic cloister. This skeptical approach to academic history seems to be at home in Bremen.
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> ... that we think like historians, that we remember the past: The tie between university and science was a temporary dalliance, a characteristic of just one short epoch in the long history of a venerable institution. I propose that we celebrate our ability to outgrow the crippling trap of scientific productivity, which now threatens to reduce the pursuit of higher learning to some form of communication.
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> ... the university does not need to justify its existence by insisting on the scientific character of its methods. I believe that the disentanglement of tested knowledge production - and training for it - from the aims of the university is an urgent and necessary condition for the survival of the institution's credibility
#UniversityMethods ? The "Intellectual Rectitude" of I.A. Richards and the UK politician?
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> to celebrate today is the continued ability of a secular institution - singular, traditional, European - to reform itself in the age of computer science through reflection on "the novel thing" it produced in the thirteenth century. I say "thing," and mean a thing, a technique. I see the university in the mirror of the material object, the thing which constitutes the material foundation for a new conceptual and social form: the newly written, visible page.
#ThePage how about LaTex or PostScript as bridge from screen back to page?? #ScreenToPage
> The customary metaphor, voces paginarum - singing pages - precisely defined the attitude toward the book. Reading was then a form of listening, not only for the one who heard the lectio, but also for the reader himself. If you examine the descriptions of the act of reading as an ethologist, an investigator of behavior, you will clearly notice this transformation.
https://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1991_text_and_university.PDF
#VocesPaginarum #SingingPages #ReadingMetaphors #MetaphorsForReading #IvanIllich
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