The Generativity of Nico Nico Douga | genronThe Generativity of Nico Nico Douga The new type of creativity enabled by metadata Satoshi Hamano Translated by Naoki Matsuyama (First appeared in Shisouchizu vol.2: Generations, NHK Publishing, Dec 2008.) A “certain Chinese encyclopedia” and Nico Nico Douga Michel Foucault opens his The Order of Things with a quote by Jorge Luis Borges.1 It refers to the classification of animals as stated in “a
