corvid-interactions on curation
figuring out how one feels about the concept and practice of curation, in 8 animals dealing with corvids.
this falcon first heard about curation, as a concept, from the library science majors in its undergrad.
this eagle wonders if curation of information and experiences, when exposed to human eccentricity, is a form of pastiche, rather than collage.
this eagle has been thinking about whether its ability to aggregate and contextualize information is really better than Google’s.
this fox considers Foucault’s discussion of juxtaposition and reasoning by association as depicted in “The Order of Things”.
this owl is considering a guided narration of its favorite route through the city; it wonders how much of its perspective has been influenced by playlist 000.A.
this cat thinks that there may be an underlying, though unknowable, truth to the nature of things, and wonders where the balance between personal experience and deeper insight lies.
this heron weaponized discourse analysis to sunder linkages between aggregations of stimuli meant to contextualize experience in a narrative way, and found that it only produced further layers of meaning.
this fox decided, following Nietzsche, that it should not fear artifice--but pursue the act of creation. it thinks there might be beauty and a kind of truth in the factorization and fractalization of perspective, despite (or because of) the limitations of this instrument.