[Air-l] How Much Information / Information Growth

[Semenov Alexander]

Hmm, here can be a lot of dichotomies. For example subjective
(knowledge)/objective (information), referred to values (knowledge)/ free of
values (information), substantive(knowledge)/formal (information) and so on.
Or it can be considered as a process of internalization of khowledge, like:
Objective information ---media (books, etc.)---socialization----->subjective
knowledge.
But my idea was that perhaps this division is somehow connected with
modernity. I think, that analogy with leading idea of Georg Simmel's
"Philosophy of money" could be very fruitful and interesting. Or it can be
connected with processes of rationalization in Max Webers sence. What do you
think?
It's not my primary research theme - I just wondered and decided to ask.
Usually I think about it in the background of my brain - nothing more. But,
however this idea seems more and more interesting to me from sociological
perspective. If someone knows some theoretical sources on that matter I'll
be happy to discuss it. But, I think that we should start a new topic as
we've already flooded a lot of irrelevant information =)
Alexander Semenov.
 MA student
 Faculty of Sociology
 Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES)
 http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html

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I'm not sure this has bearing, but doing a bit of quick pre-research on the
Internet brought back a reference to what Noam Chomsky's called "Plato's
problem" regarding the difference between knowledge and experience. What I
found is at http://www.answers.com/topic/plato-s-problem The Meno dialogue
is suggested as a possible source. In general, would this be the same as the
information/communication divide? Can it, I wonder, be traced to intuitive
differences between connotation/denotation? sorry for all the questions. I
was only going to put in 2 cents instead of 4, but, well, as often happens.
   
  Best regards,
   
  Will


William Bain
PhD Student
Comparative Literature
Department of Spanish Philology
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
 
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