Semantic Web, Relationships and a Piece of Conceptual art
In our hypermodern times it looks like that the answer to what something is lies a click or a thought away, somewhere between “Ask Google” and “I don’t need Google, my wife knows everything.” But, really, what defines a thing, a person or a place? Is it its definition alone, or is it the words used to signify it? Could
Writing is skating on a vert ramp
Writing is not easy. It scares a lot of people, mostly writers. Sitting there, face to face with the unwritten, murmuring wordlessly text is hard. Not running away is a habit to be cultivated and nurtured all life. It takes guts to sit, start and keep unearthing treasures from the depths of “your” mind. As David Amerland puts it: It’s
Let the writer in
Many people (small, big or no business owners) think they cannot, should not, or better not write. This is wrong. Business, at its core, is a channel for communication, a channel between systems. So is writing. It is realizing new connections, reinforcing existing ones and at the same time discovering and mapping new touch points. Not writing is
A dialogue with David Amerland
Fascinated by the concept of Liberature, I wanted to invite the even more fascinating writer, speaker and analyst David Amerland to a conversational search for meaning beyond the traditional form of the interview. However my understanding of what the author of the best-selling book Semantic Search does, as disruptive and non-traditional it is, stopped me, reminding me
Liberature: Setting texts, authors and readers free
Liberature is literature where the book does not contain a literary work, it is the literary work itself. On an even more abstract level it is a creative where content and its material form are an organic unity, intricately interwoven, in terms of the meaning conveyed. The concepts behind and around Liberature The term for this art form
The Brave New Text
Writing is being You don’t write a good text. A good text happens. Like a vortex, where whirling currents of informational fields meet, drawing words, meanings and concepts from seemingly distant areas of knowledge. Writing is endless building It comes into being long before it has been written down and continues to live long after the last word. What
Social presence as a living intertextuality
My mom lives in a four-storey building where all the neighbours know each other. For a year or so they have also known me - the girl who often stops between the second and the third floor, sunk deep into another reality through a typical realia of our age - a smartphone screen. Living intertextuality: stories, shrunk in