reading: screen text-networks The Turing Galaxy tree fiction Text, collective conceptual writing-space collaborative sentence cooperative exchange Electronic Writing (C.R.E.W.) forming rhizomes Electronic Poetry Center HYPER-Media-Culture hypertext hotel intertextual-networks imaginary library inter-textual links knowlegde structures nettime mailinglist Machines of Text online thinking: the art of cut-ups multimedia-madness? network-culture on-screen-writing
The post-modern technologies and sciences leave human beings behind as nomads hooked up to the network of telematic multimedial systems: culturally imprinted by the alphabetic book-culture, informed, seduced, and emotionally fed by audio-visual mass media, mentally stimulated, fascinated and inspired to speculations and visions by the new information technologies.
The myths of the text society - finite text, authorship, legitimization in the context of "great stories" (ideologies) - collapse in the interfaces of the information media, in the circulation of endlessly interchangeable information particles.
To accept the cultural challenge of information networks means to finally stop transmitting linear discourses, texts, pictures, sounds... to incorporate nomadic interwoven thought into the information channels...networking as an art of cross connections, of being on the way, of being everywhere. ...