@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."
@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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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