Metadaten-Abhilfe für das „Überinformationsproblem“?

Abstract

This paper will look at the endeavor to structure and classify knowledge by establishing a system of categorical pointers, from a critical perspective. For that purpose it will integrate three lines of critical arguments that have been discussed at the margin of mainstream efforts but have hardly been taken seriously. Had those arguments really been turned into knowing, research efforts would have been redirected from technical or more of the same to socio-technical paradigms. The three lines of argument refer to the doubtful nature of knowledge in principle which is aggravated by disciplinary specialization, they refer to a revival of reduced concepts of rationalization which ignores or suppresses results of psychological and neurological research and it will finally briefly discuss the possibility of animated machines constituting the next step of evolution as confronted with emotionally and socially competent humans as another path evolution could take. As the purpose of the paper is to enlighten by de-construction it will not contribute to schemes or representations of knowledge. It will rather develop requirements such representations should fulfill. It will plead for caution and modesty and claim an analysis from the point of view of theories of power. As to the last affront it will suggest that some public funds are redirected to the project of emotional and social learning.