a hashmanteau? a recherchmanteau?
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hashtag #AnnoConvo (a shorthand of “annotation conversation”) 1
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Again, Dr. Lynne Kelly discusses this sort of process in non-Western and primarily oral cultures as well. Songlines - The Power and Promise #has some interesting discussion of this in the Australian aboriginal cultures.
Take away: Songlines ARE equivalent to the “Great Conversation.”
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Scholars are likely familiar with the so-called “Great Conversation,” or the idea in Western thought that we collectively participate in an iterative process of knowledge production through reference, review, and refinement. As our conversation continues over time, an ever-expanding network of annotation–through notation, citation, links, and data–traces an interconnected lineage of ideas and insight. 1
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There is, however, an exceptionally long tradition of moving one’s annotations out of the margins and into more expansive spaces like commonplace books, zettelkasten, wikis, Memex, and digital gardens…
This cultural thinking pattern also isn’t confined by literacy either. Dr. Lynne Kelly attests the idea of the storage of ideas and their subsequent potential revision in oral cultures in Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies - Orality, Memory, and the Transmission of Culture #. One may have lost the ability to track the original ideas in time, but the (useful) oral “annotations” were aggregated into cultural knowledge over time.
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It is literally and figuratively marginal. 1
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More history here on the page than I would have thought. Definitely worth digging into some of the older examples going back to Conrad Gessner and Johann Jacob Moser.
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I’ve been seeing some of this in the digital gardening space online. People are actively hosting their annotations, thoughts, and ideas, almost as personal wikis. Some are using RSS and other feeds as well as Webmention notifications so that these notebooks can communicate with each other in a realization of Vanmevar Bush’s dream.
Networked academic samizdat anyone?
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Reflecting on how new digital tools have re-invigorated annotation and contributed to the creation of their recent book, they suggest annotation presents a vital means by which academics can re-engage with each other and the wider world. 1
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I love this idea.
@remikalir and @anterobot mention a broader idea of Twitter as annotation for the commons in chapter 4 of their book:
Yes, Twitter may be digital marginalia on everything. But that cloud of conversation is a bit too diffuse for our purposes; we need to lower our signal-to-noise ratio just a bit. Which means we should recognize how annotation sparks and sustains conversation under certain conditions.
@remikalir also quotes and comments on Sam Anderson’s The New York Times Magazine article “What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around in the Text”, which has a similar bent.
The needs for useful UI, discovery, and handling of signal to noise need to be looked at closely in this space to make them useful for the masses however.
On the discovery side, we also need to work at creating notifications so someone like Taibbi would see your annotation, but potentially not be inundated with the messy morass of spam and “me too” comments that can be the responses some see on public platforms like Twitter or even in comments sections on newspaper/magazine sites.
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hey suggest annotation presents a vital means by which academics can re-engage with each other and the wider world.
I suggest that the real power of annotation is not necessarily with academia. We need to go beyond academics and find ways to engage with others outside. For example, I have tried to engage Matt Taibbi on his substack article: https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftaibbi.substack.com%2Fp%2Fcongratulations-elitists-liberals&group=__world__ 1
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