24 April

My main reason for being on Facebook. It brings knowledge back to life. "If we were traditional knowers or information processors, we would gather evidence, listen to arguments and their justifications, and arrive at knowledge, in that order. But the Web is messier and more looping than that. We read backwards and forwards in time, remembering what else we've seen from this person and from others...We are not out to grab another handful from a preexisting container of knowledge. Rather, we are using conversation to develop ideas and truths and grand fictions. We are showing one another how the world looks from our perspective - a truth of the body. We are doing so because we care about the world and our place in it - a truth of the body. We are doing so with the urgency of passion - a truth of the body... Defining knowledge in the traditional way - true statements that we're justified in believing - is like explaining sex in terms of its ins and outs without ever mentioning that it feels good." David Weinberger