This
cyber section consists of a
humanities directory and a
list of cultural links to
all relevant sites that
we encountered online
concerning the subject of our
site. There are also more
focused link pages, such as an
overview of other directories,
a separate
list of time-specific sites,
and a selection of specialized
link sites. There is
also a recent
chat address through
which one may contact the
person responsible for this
site. Other sites that could
be included in our service
concept can also be found
here.
In the 21st
century, it is increasingly
important to be able to
directly check sources of
information in the form of
web presentations linked
from a certain address. The
internet is also called the
digital ether because
it is a field of
connectivity that links
everything to everything
else. This ether is the new
foundation of science, as G.W.F.
Hegel
confirmed in his preface to
the Phenomenology of
Spirit: "Pure
self-knowledge is absolute
otherness; this ether, as
such, is the foundation
and realm of science, or
knowing in general. The
beginning of philosophy
supposes or demands that
consciousness be situated
in this element."
Books do not form a direct
connection. Their
disadvantage is that, if
they are not in one's
possession, they are not
directly available to check
out. The disadvantage of
websites, on the other hand,
is that they can be more
tentative and may suddenly
disappear while under
construction. One owns
books, but not sites (unless
retrieved from a state
archive). While sites do not
directly replace books, they
offer an important extra
source of information and
opportunity for interaction.
The internet points the way
to a culture of knowledge
that depends less on
property and better accords
with the dynamics of the
spirit of the times
and
human rights
concerning access to and
participation in a
knowledge- and
information-focused society.
The internet also restores
the balance in communication
that was disturbed by the
one-sided flow of
information from radio and
television. Now, each
citizen may personally
formulate an answer to those
streams of information
outside of the dreaded and
hated soulless falsehood of
the institutions. With
publishers who only accept
economically viable
presentations, this was not
an option for everyone.
Digital and self-realized
knowledge, revolutionary and
freely available on the less
repressive internet, is
certainly a normal task for
us, people living together
nationally and
internationally, to hearten
as a form of collective
property, the way we are
used to with libraries. In
our links list in this
cyber-section of the
website, which partially
replaces the reference list,
we unfortunately had to
significantly reduce the
section for commercial
enterprises because of a
lack of interest in
knowledge. After the tenth
website about garden gnomes,
we had enough of the
"declarations of solidarity"
without reciprocal links or
evidence of serious
commitment to the content.
For this purpose, membership
in the Filognostic
Association
is now required. Also, sex-,
drug-, and gambling sites
that, despite all warnings,
adamantly offered themselves
contrary to the explicitly
stated principles, had to be
shunned. Open communication
has its disadvantages: one
must repeatedly filter out
spammers, who usually try to
impose unsolicited
commercial information.
