Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@NatureSchoolSU I get asked that quite often! Many are the reasons I publish only to the web, but above all it's because the very fabric of cyberspace - hypertext - duplicates and combines with the essential structure of natural reality and thought in ways no other communication medium affords.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 14 Nov 2024

@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
cyberspatial disarray, division and inequity? Why are we _here_?
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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_?

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RyanHaecker The metaphysical significance of hypertextual cybernetics cannot be overstated. Typically, it goes completely unobserved. Why? "Hypertext," noted Michael Heim, in his 1995 text, 'The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality', "refers to the existence of a hidden or unnoticed dimension."Quoted by@RyanHaecker The metaphysical significance of hypertextual cybernetics cannot be overstated. Typically, it goes completely unobserved. Why? "Hypertext," noted Michael Heim, in his 1995 text, 'The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality', "refers to the existence of a hidden or unnoticed dimension."