Hyperdocumentation

9Free (or Open?) Hyperdocumentation

The actions of documenting, being documented or seeking to document what others are doing are multiplying. Attempts to control these documentary and archival spaces are now at the center of financial, political and citizen struggles. The issue of knowledge in the broad sense, open to all, sometimes appears to have become a secondary object, especially because the main issues have shifted to the level of data, and especially personal data.

However, it seems appropriate to rethink and reform the common issues at stake in the matter of documentation by taking care to better identify which forms are now the most appropriate. How it is possible for the official researcher, but also amateur researchers and enlightened citizens or those who want to be, to be able to access forms of knowledge built and taught in order not only to learn, but also to venture?

The encyclopedic challenge, it must be remembered, is that of a proximity between production and documentation, between knowledge and innovation. It is as much about access to knowledge as it is about access to power and know-how. This implies recalling that information culture is also a technical culture, since it is not only a question of manipulating informational or documentary forms that may contain data, but also technical forms that may be software or any other type of material production.

This proximity between knowledge and technology makes man a cyborg who is ignorant of himself. Ron ...