World cultures are repositories of interpretative practices, not mere knowledge

Evidence

For at least two and a half thousand years our culture has been reflecting on the practices of textual interpretation that it has established over the course of its development, from commentaries on Homer, the legal rhetoric of the Romans, Christian exegesis of the Middle Ages, the Cabala, humanist learning, rationalist criticism of the classical age, to the more recent emergence of philology, literary history, structuralism or deconstruction – not to mention, of course, all the non-European traditions which, working with the text of the Koran or aphoristic Eastern wisdom, have developed hermeneutic practices that are easily as rich and subtle as our own. More than as reservoirs of knowledge in the process of being absorbed by the internet, world cultures should be considered above all as repositories and illustrations of interpretative practices, which, while often convergent with one another, are all equipped with their own nuances and tools. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 477

Categorization

• DEFINE: Reframes what cultural traditions fundamentally are — interpretative laboratories rather than knowledge warehouses.
• XREF: connects to: Culture operates as signifying practice rather than a fixed way of life — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 399; Culture is the interrelation of all social practices, not one practice.

Broader Connections

• Culture operates as signifying practice rather than a fixed way of life #corroborates (0.92) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 399
• Culture is the interrelation of all social practices, not one practice. #expands (0.78)