Picked up from if:book, a nice manifesto which echos a lot of what I have been thinking about concerning this tension between the new and the old, both new knowledge and new mediums to spread that knowledge.
- Why add to the population of orphaned works?
- Don’t presume that new work improves on old
- Honor our ancestors by recycling their wisdom
- The ideology of originality is arrogant and wasteful
- Dregs are the sweetest drink
- And leftovers were spared for a reason
- Actors don’t get a fair shake the first time around, let’s give them another
- The pleasure of recognition warms us on cold nights and cools us in hot summers
- We approach the future by typically roundabout means
- We hope the future is listening, and the past hopes we are too
- What’s gone is irretrievable, but might also predict the future
- Access to what’s already happened is cheaper than access to what’s happening now
- Archives are justified by use
- Make a quilt not an advertisement
I recommend you read the article, each of these points are explained in greater depth.
