Self-Defining Knowledge Communitie

I’m reading Pierre Levy’s book ‘Collective Intelligence’ and found this passage, and thought it was worth sharing:

“From singular utterances to creative listening, languages emerge and drift along the stream of communication, borne by thousands of voices that call and respond to one another, take risks, provoke and deceive, hurling words, expressions, and new accents across the abyss of non-sense. In this way an artist can appropriate an expression inherited from earlier generations and help it evolve. This is one of the primary social functions of art: participation in the continuous invention of the languages and signs of a community. But the creator of language is always a community” (Lévy 1997 p.124).