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Kultur und Zivilisation
Homogenisation, Standardisation, Harmonisation, Lingusitic Turn, Iconic Turn: Where do we go from here in an age of a globalised "Cyberculture"?
Heiner Benking (Berlin)
The paper reviews possible roots or foundations for comparing and bridging information along and across scales and cultures. In contrast to singling out certain cultures "at hand" and trying to compare only selected, well framed items, the proposal is made to look for common frames of references, shared and agreed upon maps and extensional 3-dimensional models; to provide "rooms" or spaces to position cultures in their time, context/situation, and "thematic" neighbourhoods - and see their lineage and "overlap" - be comparative in a broader sense.
Proposals presented built on:
1. a sign theory which connects symbols, icons, and indexes (Peirce) and focuses on bridging such incompatible representations,
2. ways to embody and model informational context (meta) or overview mode,
3. Lessons learned with UN and G7 proposal for the harmonisation of multilingual, multi-sectorial information worldwide from the late 80ies time ago, and
4. projects in the field of environmental and general education and decision-support for policy-making (situation rooms).
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