Evolu&on

 of  Mediasphere  
(From 2000) Ubiquity, interconnection and automatic
manipulation of symbols. Social Media. Knowledge
economy. New sign systems. Digital humanities revolution.

(From 1500) massive technical self-reproduction and

diffusion of the alphabet and other cultural signs. New
languages (animated images, etc.) Industrial economy.
Scientific notation progress. 1st scientific revolution.

(From - 1000) Writing reduced to thirty phonetic signs.
Notation of numbers by position, zero. Commercial
economy. Alphabetization. New hermeneutic traditions.

(From - 3000) Autonomous technical memory of
language. Ideographic signs. Numerals, measurement
units. Agricultural economy. Scribal knowledge.

(From - 300 000) myths, rites, oral transmission, memory
inscribed in matter. Icons. Arts of memory. Hunting-
gathering economy. Tribal knowledge.

 The  current  state  of  Humani&es  and  Social  sciences  

•  Systemic  Weaknesses  (by  contrast  with  natural  sciences)  

–  Fragmenta&on  of  its  object  (the  cultural  phenomenon),  by  disciplines  
and  theories  
–  Fragmenta&on  of  its  community  :  no  common  metalanguage  to  make  
the  locally  produced  knowledge  explicit  and  reusable    
–  Methodological  limita&ons:  weak  testability  and  computability  (oFen  
limited  to  sta&s&cs)  
•  Growing  strengths  (toward  a  scien&fic  revolu&on  of  HSS)    
–  Collabora&on:  direct  access  to  data/archives  and  tools,  collec&ve  
exploita&on  /  collabora&on  in  distributed  virtual  teams,  open  
publishing,  open  access  
–  Observa&on:  availability  of  data  and  compu&ng  power  in  the  digital  
medium  
–  Possibility  to  overcome  the  systemic  weaknesses  of  HSS  and  to  fully  
exploit  the  new  possibili&es  of  collabora&on  and  observa&on  to  the  
service  of  human  developement  thanks  to  a  common,  computable,  
quasi  infinite,  mul&-­‐centered,  open,  seman&c  coordinate  system.    
 Human  Development  
Governance / values

Rights / duties

Will networks

ETHICAL  CAPITAL  

Arts Finance
Sciences Competence
Knowledge networks
Power networks

EPISTEMIC   PRACTICAL  
CAPITAL    CAPITAL  

Collective
Intelligence

COMMUNICATION   BIOPHYSICAL  
CAPITAL   CAPITAL  

Messages Equipment / technology

Media Health / environment 
Documentary networks
Bodily networks

SOCIAL  CAPITAL  
Trust
Social roles
Personal networks