Mentions

“significant as much for their inclusions as their omissions” ⤴️->
“Nelson considers the absent link, the lacuna, to be as important as those already forged: Within bodies of writing, everywhere, there are linkages we tend not to see.” ⤴️->

External Peer

learning as journey, as trajectory
life, purpose, career, direction as journey, as trajectory
how to connect separate thinkers’ knowledge graphs - how to reference notes from others’ knowledge graphs - how to traverse through a knowledge graph with your path stored
tabbed/side-by-side options on eg obsidian and similar
peripheral notes
knowledge built on other knowledge, exploring a research space, with or without destination and goal, growth or interlinking or bolstering a side
research goals and research methods, the scientific process
if they are trajectories can we use vector maths instrumentally

““the human evolves through externalizing itself in tools, artifacts, language and technical memory banks” (Stiegler, 2010, p.65).” ⤴️
“Every act of externalizing one’s thought and memory instigates a certain milieu characterized by power relations, which in return affect and shape the lives of those implicated in these milieux.” (Smolicki, 2017, pp. 54)

as in electronic media, living documents, web pages and websites, editable posts and comments, HTTP

“making collective knowledge available to individuals in new associative ways.” ⤴️ ->
“record the trails of associations he constructed over the course of his research.” ⤴️ ->
“trails would then become the foundation of further research by others” ⤴️ ->
“a new profession of trailblazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.”” ⤴️ (cited in) ->
““new forms of encyclopaedias […] with a mesh of associative trails running through them”” ⤴️(cited in) ->
“individual researchers always have their own thought-trail of associative links through a given body of material.” ⤴️ ->
“the grand cat’s cradle among them all.” ⤴️ ->