Sanity is madness put to good use.
“Seeking Wisdom in the Age of Digital Reproduction”
CCI Workshop: Spring Semester, 2008
Is there emergent “wisdom” in the digital age? In a strictly practical sense, wisdom can be defined as the utilization of knowledge and experience to make ethical judgments. Yet, beyond this common sense understanding wisdom has the potential to transcend cultural mores for how we act and extend into questions of overarching principles, of significant human values and goals. In the past wisdom—dependant on our accumulated memory of experience and knowledge—was generated by more or less stable culture conditions: books and monuments. In our contemporary digital age such relatively stable conditions no longer exist. Can there be wisdom in the context of the risk and uncertainty that emerges from a digital society? We seek to answer these questions by examining three separate yet interrelated research problems.
- What does it mean to be human in the digital age?
- What role do literature, visual art, music and other creative projects play in understanding wisdom in the age of digital reproduction?
- What is the connection between human rights and wisdom in the digital age?
Resident fellows:
Gregory Grieve, Coordinator, gpgrieve@gmail.com
Elizabeth Bucar, Department of Religious Studies, UNCG
Seth Ellis, Department of Art, UNCG
Mark Engebretson, School of Music
Gregory Grieve, Department of Religious Studies, UNCG
Arndt Niebisch, Department of German and Russian, UNCG
Alexandra Schultheis, Department of English, UNCG
Stephen Sills, Department of Sociology, UNCG
Visiting fellow:
Frederick Young, Depts of English and Literature, Communication and
Digital Media, Blekinge Institute of Technology
Digital Media, Blekinge Institute of Technology