What happens in this new program to the old model of 'critical thinking'?

That comes of its own. When you compare your computer program with your literary essay or paper, you're already thinking critically. Critical thinking can't be taught. I can teach people to think historically, and that in itself is quite critical...sometimes. A lot of what we have touched on here goes back to acts of pure violence, for example, the founding of the museum. What we can learn from history is that structures aren't eternal. To return, however, to the concept of the various code systems — if the practice I have just described could really be imported, as far as possible, into the human sciences, not just as information science for the humanities or liberal arts student so that they can get a position in data entry if they can't find a job in teaching, but rather so that they acquire a methodological model for themselves. There don't seem to be so many practical applications.


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