well, in the 1970s i organised an index of Socialist Review, which was carried on once or twice after I stopped running it but even then, incorporating International Socialism I didn't get around to. Doing Socialist Worker would be a different matter of complexity altogether. Whereas with grep and an ascii file, for that is about all we have at the moment, some things can be done, but other things need a lot more work, and it is important to know the difference.
Wikipedia creates some knew ideas for the organisation of knowledge as a category of contest, as a mediation between the dominant ideas and the people change dialectic. But wikipedia is itself a small battle ground as attempts to set up contested bodies of knowledge are then demolished by those with the time, resources, technical competence or wickidness just to be perverse (perversity being a special class of dominant idea people history making process :)).
I'm doing a seminar here at Kingston University on 8th february at 1pm at the Penrhyn Rd. site entitled a Blunt Dialectic, if anyone wants to come along.
In 1938 at the 14th Congress of FID (Federation International Documentation) a paper was presented entitled "A method for documentation of the humanities" by A.F.Blunt, and I'm going to be looking at his dialectic :)
and the stuff in the past few paragraphs as well. For those who attended my "Taking a kissybion for a walk" and lasy year's the "choice of hercules" will recognise that this is also a contribution to the lgbtq* history month, which starts on Thursday.
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From: To complement the journal 'Capital and Class' (ISSN 0 309 8786) on behalf of John G Walker
Sent: Tue 30/01/2007 12:50
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Subject: Re: Capital and class ideas -
A wikipedia's not such a bad idea. I'd thought, a while back, of
starting one up for the London Socialist Historians Group, but decided
I didn't have the time. But if anyone has the time to organise such a
thing, I'm sure that there would be plenty of support across the board.
Of course, it's always open to people to post stuff on
http://en.wikipedia.org, which would get an extremely wide audience.
Is this the sort of thing you're thinking about, John?
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All the best,
John
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:23:51 -0000 "Lindsay, John M"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So where best, after the manner of a wikipedia for capital and class,
> or a working class encyclopedia, do we best organise the ideas and
> the concepts so people may make the connections?
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