A New Renaissance and the Second Age of Enlightenment

Chapter 7

Chapter seven will expand upon the idea of a new cloud-based relational database site that will archive the ideographs that were introduced in chapter six. In the words of Clifford Geertz, this database will become a “consultable record of humanity” (1973, 30), but it will also store that record into germane narratives; threads that will organically frame and contextualize the ideographs as users drill down into the records. The database will hold true to the ideals of social media as a user-driven system where the database will grow both from new content and hyperlinks to already existing content. In this way it will respect the collective thinking ideals of the Occupy movement. For our purposes, our discussion of database will always be undertaken in one of two realms: media, or policy. This chapter will focus on media, and the database will store its records by sorting them into six broad genres of artistic creativity. In this way users will be able to find media that is most suitable to their needs. In order to keep the media descriptions as simple as possible they will be discussed in terms of how that media is consumed: seeing, touching, reading, watching, listening, or performing.