RT @nick_routledge: @DanielGilmanHQ Eloquently stated, Daniel. And worth noting that for all its and our flaws, the fundamental structural ontology of Twitter and the corresponding social ecology it peculiarly enables, remains "a possibility space" unparalleled in the history and reality of human interaction.
![Depends what you're about. Even if its positive evolutionary significance remains largely unrecognized, no other platform weds to the peculiar
ontological promise of internetworked hypertext as does Twitter. Some get
it. Most don't.
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?
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." Landow, Hypertext: the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology
10/ Put another way, what is it to interpret the evolutionary ontology of, say, Twitter itself, in theological terms? What is the deeper Christic function of
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Depends what you're about. Even if its positive evolutionary significance remains largely unrecognized, no other platform weds to the peculiar ontological promise of internetworked hypertext as does Twitter. Some get it. Most don't. 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? 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." Landow, Hypertext: the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology 10/ Put another way, what is it to interpret the evolutionary ontology of, say, Twitter itself, in theological terms? What is the deeper Christic function of cyberspatial disarray, division and inequity? Why are we _here_?
@lukeburgis Beyond the technological limitation of the question, beyond the Book, another dimension? "The principle of hierachy in writing is always in conflict with the principle of association.” - Jay David Bolter, 'Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing', 1991