feeding hypertext-commonplace Internet:Who doesn't Fight Lives in Fright Machines of Text MEMESIS - open forum MOOs theatricalizing multimedia-madness?
Almost mythical qualities seem to be growing out of the relatively new media in the turbulence created as they begin to replace the well rooted structures of the "old" media - vast amounts of potential energy are apparently ready to be set free. Especially today, after the presumed failure of social utopias and projects, utopian potentials are increasingly pushing their way into technologies and media: ecological technologies, recreation and psychological technologies, body and aesthetic technologies... While the mechanical age sang an ode in a myriad of variations to the myth of the machine as the universal instrument of production, the post-modern age delivers the myth of the Universal Network: the telematic technologies promise a liberalization, multiplication, and enrichment of the methods of communication. Social systems as open networks in which the messages flow out star-like in all directions - the myth is no longer "The medium is the message", (that applies to mass communications), but rather, the message constitutes itself as a knotting together/interweaving of streams of media: Transmitting/receiving, interacting.