@suzania @permachristians You're most gentil. Thank you, Susannah. Was it Nietzsche who noted the more straightforward he was, the more opaque he became? Challenging. Honestly, your best bet is to drill down through the two hyperlinked subtweets I've already provided. There's a trace answering you there.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Massimo Faggioli Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1917956497876893774 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Massimo Faggioli Le charme discret de le subtweet 1:11 PM · Dec 12, 2023 · 999 Views 1 3
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting George Landow; Ian @poetinbabylon; Nick quoting Michael Heim; Ian; Nick on hypertext Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1917956497876893774 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. “The effects of scrolling don’t tell us the whole story, that of the history of reading and of the interactions between secular technology and sacred texts.” —J. L. Wall Wholly captivating, the author's pilgrim words, holiness upon holiness, exquisitely crafted. And, yes, read upon a scroll. Me, I love Books, and the Screen as sacred complement, not secular substitute. Kelly: "Hypertext creates its own possibility space." This place? Holy, too. 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) 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 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? Subtweet: 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
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