The datacentral project - research

Papers on social chaos, hermeneutics, computational culture, and personal knowledge ecosystems.

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1. Are ideas alive? How history was governed by ideas

Status: First edition released

Document type: Essay

Description: An essay proposing a theoretical structure of ideas as intelligent agents and exploring their role in shaping history

Orientation within datacentral: Living ideas are the base form found in data


2.How do reccomendation algorithms effect the formation of culture?

Status: First edition published

Document type: Research paper

Description: A research paper that analyses how reccomendation algorithms effect the formation of culture through the parameter of “social chaos” which effects the divergence in a person’s habits over time

Orientation within datacentral: This document allows us to discuss how technology as an interface effects living ideas and the relationship between living ideas and users


3. A speculative ontological framework

Status: First draft released

Document type: Essay

Description: A speculative ontological framework that synthesises “Are ideas alive? How history was governed by ideas” and “How do reccomendation algorithms effect the formation of culture?”.

Orientation within datacentral: This document allows us to apply “living ideas” to external systems expandind the domain of the methodology so far

4. Historical reference point

Status: First draft released

Document type: Literature review

Description: A literature review of multiple sources that details the chronological evolution of the way humans create meaning from the world around them

Orientation within datacentral: This document details the history of the interface of human conciousness allowing us to better interpret the human level of the datacentral methodology for more meaningful interactions with data


5. Datacentral thesis

Status: First draft released

Document type: Essay

Description: The foundational thesis of datacentral