Growing Ideas

ian banerjee’s online classroom discussing the future of cities, inspiring stories and ways of thinking

Michael Kearl September 8, 2007

Filed under: Sociology of Knowledge — Ian Banerjee @ 6:54 pm

Great website! Keywords: Sociological Imagination, critical thinking, knowledge, truth and reality, etc.

Michael Kearl starts with the following quotation:

Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you The Universe and Man that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you’re not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from outside. In fact it’s exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos…

–William Gaddis, JR, p. 25

Go through this educative, entertaining and illuminating website!

http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/knowledg.html

 

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