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Information

To inform originally meant to give form, soul or life to matter. Today, we equate information with data, and “informing” with transmission of knowledge. But in the process of informing, let us not lose sight of the original sense of the word. Let us take care to conjoin feeling with reason and the heart with the mind, so that we may nourish the souls of our listeners even as we pass on our knowledge.

 

 

In the 12th century, “[t]he pages were still made of parchment rather than of paper. The translucent sheep- or goatskin was covered with manuscript and brought to life in miniatures painted with thin brushes, The form of Perfect Wisdom could shine through these skins, bringing letter and symbols to light, and kindle the eye of the reader. To face a book was comparable to the experience one can live early in the morning in those Gothic churches in which the original windows have been preserved. When the sun rises, it brings to life the colors of the stained glass which before dawn had seemed like black stuffing in stone arches.”
Ivan Illich, In the Vineyard of the Text, The University of Chicago Press, 1996, p.17.

 




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The editor of L'Encyclopédie de L'Agora and well known newspaper chronicler and philosopher, analyses actuality through the looking glass of Belonging.
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