Digital Text as a Phenomenon of Culture
These are my slides from the International Forum of the Faculty of Slavic Studies at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" 2019 where I talked about how I saw digital text. What makes digital text different? I. Text-specific differences Hypertext Ease of publishing, distribution, access (search/retrieval) Non-linearity, fragmentation Potentially all kinds of containers (DNA included) II. Context-specific differences (where
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
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