Concept
What ‘bureaucracy’ was bundling: preservation keeps the un-compressed form alive somewhere; training re-installs the capacity to decode at that resolution in receivers. Each can be done by many institutional forms (monasteries, journals, universities, common-law courts, version-controlled specs) and each fails differently when starved, captured, or displaced. The pair acts as a pump — preservation holds pressure, training releases it into the network — so either alone fails the integration project.
Connections
- Defined in: Preservation vs. Training
- Discussed in: Ch 12 — Infrastructure for Integration, Ch 10 — Political Economy of Attention, Ch 8 — Preservation vs. Training
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