Quinta-feira, 2/3/2006
Portrait of the Blogger
Julio Daio Borges
A Web log really (...) is a Wunderkammer. That is to say, the genealogy of Web logs points not to the world of letters but to the early history of museums - to the "cabinet of wonders," or Wunderkammer, that marked the scientific landscape of Renaissance modernity: a random collection of strange, compelling objects, typically compiled and owned by a learned, well-off gentleman. A set of ostrich feathers, a few rare shells, a South Pacific coral carving, a mummified mermaid - the Wunderkammer mingled fact and legend promiscuously, reflecting European civilization's dazed and wondering attempts to assimilate the glut of physical data that science and exploration were then unleashing.
Julian Dibbell, na FEED Magazine, em 2000 (porque é antigo, mas é canônico...)
Julio Daio Borges
2/3/2006 às 10h43
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