Cataloging at the PGPL
Greenaway's "100 Objects" piece will be used as a template for a
personalized cataloging scheme. Each person will develop their own 100
objects-type system, or perhaps competing personal systems can be
released into the "market" to see which will win. Celebrities will be
encouraged to develop and brand their own systems, and people can choose
between Madonna's or Michael Jordan's or Oliver North's or the Dali
Lama's or Boris Yeltsin's cataloging systems. Powerful computers will
instantly move materials between competing schemes (Madonna's "Whip" =
Yeltsin's "Potato" perhaps).
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Materials will be shelved wherever is convenient, and individual items
will be located by individual magnetic signatures.
Overall, the effect of this is to expose the systematization of knowledge
as a social construct, highly personal in nature. In theory, this system
would also be 10 times more expressive and detailed than Dewey's system,
which broke all knowledge into 10 basic categories.
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