Plackarnia, Ul. Jankego W Katowicach

Olympic twilight

reason China has rapidly modernized and presented with the Olympic games in the world wants in the best light, can be easily understood. Another story is then that the Chinese government as a dictatorial regime there. This type of governments are particularly eager to use the Olympics and similar large events to strengthen their legitimacy.

precisely this lack of legitimacy in Tibet, China. The military conquest and the subsequent integration into the Chinese nation-state was against the will of the vast majority of the Tibetan population. In addition to the political control occurs subsidized by Beijing migration, which occupied the good positions in industry and government.

boycott threats seen in the current situation, not necessarily successful. Clear position on the other hand, are appropriate. Who gets involved with problematic regimes in a symbolic productions, is found not unexpected in the role of legitimacy fundraiser. So have the International Olympic Committee, but also monuments Bauer such as Herzog & de Meuron, exposed to a different level than about a European company, rolling case or toy manufactures in China.

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hypertext and an engine

In the nineties, the concept of hypertext acquainted with the World Wide Web and the links to the websites to a wider public. The concept has roots far back. As a precursor to some references in works are considered, pointing to other entries.

pioneer of a more narrow idea of hypertext, the Belgian Paul Otlet (1868-1944) is. In his book Traité (1), he conceived the idea of book as new information machine. He invites the notion of Book far beyond the idea of an information container, and also moving toward a systems theory. He edited the book at the same time as an organism, energy flow and spirit (2).

Otlet proposes to break down text into small blocks. To be associated with a dynamic system of index cards. Without that should have become apparent in the meantime, appropriate technology, Otlet saw a remote controlled multi-media platform to come, the "la radio, les rayons X, le cinéma et la photographie microscopique" integrate (3).

Otlet was a visionary who came from the questions of the library system and the Document Management ago. A direct Influence on the development of computer-based hypertext is nachzuweisbar is hardly. Otlet shows that growing mountains of documents and a change of attitude aroused the language optimistic expectations for technical processing of texts.


(1) Traite de Documentation (1934).
(2) Ronald E. Day: The modern invention of information: discourse, history and power.
2001 (3) http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs/otlethyp.php