When people enter the Natural History Museum of London at the end of the main hall at the top, nestled between the walls, there is an extraordinary redwood of 5 meters in diameter that lived for about 1300 years, where the eyes of all the visitors rest in fascination. Trees have always invested the culture of populations with the symbolism of their strength and resilience. This ancestral connection with nature explains why right from the start, the branched structure of trees has played the role of a favorite metaphor for the representation of the natural world and the meanders of human knowledge. However, in the information overload society, the tree metaphor no longer works the same way. Before the advent of the Web, the need was to order, organize, catalogue. Today these terms have been replaced with connect, relate, unite. These words find fulfillment in the knots and links of the web and of that anarchic rhizome of which Deleuze and Guittari have spoken so much. The tree is no longer the holder of the favorite metaphor because of the figure of today’s society that has changed. This research aims to investigate the transition between the determining visual models of trees and network, showing through the case of Amazon Mechanical Turk, how the intrinsic properties of the network perfectly matches the need to give shape to exquisitely human relationships in the age of hyperconnection.
Quando le persone entrano al Natural History Museum di Londra alla fine della hall principale in alto, incastonata fra le pareti, c’è una straordinaria sequoia di 5 metri di diametro vissuta per circa 1300 anni, dove si posano affascinati gli occhi di tutti i visitatori. Da sempre gli alberi hanno investito la cultura delle popolazioni col simbolismo della loro forza e resilienza. Questa connessione ancestrale con la natura spiega perché sin da subito, la struttura ramificata degli alberi abbia ricoperto il ruolo di metafora prediletta per la rappresentazione del mondo naturale e dei meandri della conoscenza umana. Tuttavia, nella società dell’Information Overload, l’albero non funziona più allo stesso modo. Prima dell’avvento del Web, la necessità era ordinare, organizzare, catalogare. Oggi questi termini sono stati sostituiti con collegare, relazionare, connettere. Queste parole trovano compimento nei nodi e nei links propri della rete e di quel rizoma anarchico di cui tanto hanno parlato Deleuze e Guittari. L’albero non è più il detentore della metafora prediletta perché è la cifra della società odierna a cambiare. Questa ricerca si propone di indagare il passaggio tra i determinanti modelli visivi di albero e rete, mostrando attraverso il caso di Amazon Mechanical Turk, come le proprietà intrinseche della rete sposino perfettamente la necessità di dare una forma alle relazioni squisitamente umane nel secolo della iperconnessione.
Everything touches everything : dall'albero alla rete: un'indagine sul cambiamento del modello della visualizzazione dei dati attraverso il caso Amazon Mechanical Turk
Agosta, Letizia
2021/2022
Abstract
When people enter the Natural History Museum of London at the end of the main hall at the top, nestled between the walls, there is an extraordinary redwood of 5 meters in diameter that lived for about 1300 years, where the eyes of all the visitors rest in fascination. Trees have always invested the culture of populations with the symbolism of their strength and resilience. This ancestral connection with nature explains why right from the start, the branched structure of trees has played the role of a favorite metaphor for the representation of the natural world and the meanders of human knowledge. However, in the information overload society, the tree metaphor no longer works the same way. Before the advent of the Web, the need was to order, organize, catalogue. Today these terms have been replaced with connect, relate, unite. These words find fulfillment in the knots and links of the web and of that anarchic rhizome of which Deleuze and Guittari have spoken so much. The tree is no longer the holder of the favorite metaphor because of the figure of today’s society that has changed. This research aims to investigate the transition between the determining visual models of trees and network, showing through the case of Amazon Mechanical Turk, how the intrinsic properties of the network perfectly matches the need to give shape to exquisitely human relationships in the age of hyperconnection.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/10589/205215