Book chapter
Sorting Noises: Poetry, Libraries, and the Resistance of Information
Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel: Innovative Meditations on Librarianship, pp.89-102
04/2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/13091
Abstract
Librarians and poets are fatuous experts on everything. Both have had frequent recourse to information theories ranging from cybernetics to semiotics and from corporate parsimonies to hermetic correspondences. I wanted to start a movement, LIBRARIANS AGAINST INFORMATION, in solidarity with POETS AGAINST LITERATURE. Instead, I wrote this essay, borrowing a dilapidated conceit: Russell Ackoff’s so-called Wisdom Pyramid. Picture a triangle, laterally stratified, hierarchic and vaguely hieratic: from bottom to top, the steps are Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom. Imagine this as poetry. I tried, playing sorts with whatever came to hand, heaping questions, tweaking answers and scattering rubble.
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- Title
- Sorting Noises: Poetry, Libraries, and the Resistance of Information
- Creators
- Sam Lohmann (Author)
- Publication Details
- Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel: Innovative Meditations on Librarianship, pp.89-102
- Academic Unit
- Libraries; WSU Vancouver
- Identifiers
- 99900502776701842
- Copyright
- openAccess ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter