So just won(a)dering out loud - if we operate, at least on some level, with a fight or flight instinct (used loosely, if not metaphorically here), then what would a semantic fight or flight response be in classification or knowledge organization? Would flight be erasure and fight be argument or insult? Are there nuances here that require further elaboration? I'm actually sure there are. One wonders if the concept record, seen only by professionals dealing with KOS could account for the social interaction that might be semantic fight or flight in KOS.
In communication systems it might be different. Social tagging systems - which seem to be a hybrid of communication and knowledge organization tool might provide slices of this, but it would be a mirco-fight (with warring tags or tag wars), and I would think, and invisible erasure for flight.
Does this idea of the flight/flight dichotomy make sense? I'm inspired by some aboriginal thinkers (and thinkers working with aboriginal epistemologies and world-views) on classification, the tensions present in technologies of writing employed by colonizing forces in appropriation of concepts, and the subsequent reaction(s) specifically, but it could be explored in many contexts I think (tho' that's a neo-liberal perspective of mine!).
Coffee anyone?
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