Saturday 4 May 2013

A London

What is knowledge? Knowledge is to understand, to comprehend the intended meaning of a subject. Doing this by means of the information accessed and gathered previously which would allow to make judgment and take a decision on the subject-matter. Knowledge refers to a territory. To my own territory.
The English Dictionary define 'Knowledge' as the "facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject; what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information (when considering the transmission of knowledge); [Philosophy] true, justified belief; certain understanding, as opposed to opinion. Awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation." Knowledge "applies to any body of facts gathered by study, observation, or experience, and to the ideas inferred from these facts.

While, the 'territory' that I'm referring to is, as expressed by D&G (in A Thousand Plateaus, p. 352), "first of all the critical distance between two beings of the same species: Mark your distance." The authors further add that, "What is mine is first of all my distance; I possess only distance." Whereas, "Critical distance is a relation based on matters of expression."

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