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RT @nick_routledge: @MassimoFaggioli 1/ Le subtweet? The radical, evolutionary iteration of a *spatial* dimension to semiotic radiance "distributed among the strengths of the connections [links!] between the units." (George Landow in 'Hypertext: the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology', 1992)

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a review I just read in History of Religions says that Kripal maintains the thesis that most historians of religion are "closet mystics," and as a not-so-closeted semi-mystic studying the history of religion I feel subtweeted by this review
Is 'subtweeted' a theological term? I suppose it properly should be. "Hypertext," noted Michael Heim, in his 1993 text, 'The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality', "refers to the existence of a hidden or unnoticed dimension."

We are ten years away from a theology of hypertext and subtweet (!) — but I think about this often (I return often to modes of narrative theory that
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Copy of tweet thread here: a review I just read in History of Religions says that Kripal maintains the thesis that most historians of religion are "closet mystics," and as a not-so-closeted semi-mystic studying the history of religion I feel subtweeted by this review Is 'subtweeted' a theological term? I suppose it properly should be. "Hypertext," noted Michael Heim, in his 1993 text, 'The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality', "refers to the existence of a hidden or unnoticed dimension." We are ten years away from a theology of hypertext and subtweet (!) — but I think about this often (I return often to modes of narrative theory that

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 6 Dec 2023

@McLinstitute Odd, isn't it, that hypertext's structural ontology, and the concomitant revolution in expression of consciousness and bounds of possibility space it uniquely allows, remains typically unnoticed. Is such awareness born only from within the possibility-expression-structure itself?

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Quoted by@aeonmag end/ The theological dimension? Framed secularly, Joyce: "Some theorists argue that hypertext represents a shift in human consciousness comparable to the shift from orality to print", where Brian Eno calls it, "just about as big a change of consciousness as we are capable of."