Abstract
In this paper we examine how the process of collaboration works in science and literature. In the first part, we discuss the features of scientific collaboration and literary collaboration and the differences between them. In the second part, we analyze two processes of collaboration, each from a different field: the case of CERN and high-energy physics and the case of Scrittura Industriale Collettiva and its Great Open Novel. Lastly, we try to compare those two processes and deduce the common traits of a successful collaboration.
Highlights
The word “collaboration” comes from the late Latin verb collaborare which meant to work jointly with someone else
No matter the discipline, to research means to collaborate. Those who work in the field do not separate the concepts and usually talk of “research collaboration.”
CERN, an acronym for Center Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, is an intergovernmental organization founded with the prime aim of performing fundamental research in nuclear physics
Summary
The word “collaboration” comes from the late Latin verb collaborare which meant to work jointly with someone else. No matter the discipline, to research means to collaborate Those who work in the field do not separate the concepts and usually talk of “research collaboration.”. In a way, the solitary researcher of literature can be seen–or perhaps sees himself–as a reflection of the solitary author of literature In his preface to The Rules of Art, Pierre Bourdieu investigates the reasons as to why literary scholars exert such a «resistance to scientific analysis» and his conclusions blame precisely the tempting parallelism that is often carried out between the singularity of the work of literature, the singularity of its creator, and the singularity of its critic, all seen as individui ineffabili, singular entities that cannot be rationally explained nor compared to something else, and –one could add–cannot collaborate with someone else.
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